A trial is set Sept. Judge K. Michael Kirkman on Thursday also scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on a motion over whether prosecutors in the case of Louis Ray Perez, 46, Dorothy Maraglino, 37, and year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez will be allowed to view certain documents that are currently sealed.
On Monday, the judge ordered the three defendants to trial after an often-lurid six-day preliminary hearing regarding the death of year-old Brittany Killgore. Her body was found near Lake Skinner last April 17, four days after she agreed to go on a dinner cruise with Perez. The defendants face charges of murder, torture, conspiracy, attempted sexual battery and kidnapping. A deputy medical examiner testified that Killgore was strangled with some sort of ligature before being dumped near the Riverside County lake.
The victim also had a deep cut from a saw below her left knee, suggesting attempted dismemberment after she died, Dr. Craig Nelson testified. Killgore had just filed for divorce from her Marine husbandβwho was deployed to Afghanistan at the timeβand was preparing to move back to Pennsylvania. Lance Cpl. The judge also scheduled a status conference for May Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox.
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