Sex slave points to master and mistress in BDSM murder

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BDSM sex slave and convicted murderer Jessica Lynn Lopez claims she falsely confessed to the murder of a US Marine’s young wife under pressure from her “lover”.

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According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Lopez claims she was an obedient slave. She explained that in BDSM, submissives don’t ask questions. They do what they are told.

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She wore a collar, ate from a dog bowl and helped cover up the 2012 sex murder of Brittany Kilgore.

Now Lopez says she took the fall so the couple she called her mistress and master could run on the attacks. She wants a judge to overturn her conviction.

Kilgore, 22, was the young wife of a US Marine stationed in Afghanistan. Her life would end as part of a BDSM fantasy turned terror.

Prosecutors said Kilgore knew Lopez and her master and mistress Louis Ray Perez and Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino.

In 2015, the three perverted killers were convicted of murder, kidnapping, torture and attempted sexual assault. The twisted trio were all sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Lopez, 36, claims she wasn’t even present when the killing occurred, but under California law at the time, she was held responsible for Kilgore’s death. The law has changed.

Her attorneys argue that Lopez was a scapegoat and had no control over the horror show that unfolded.

“She was manipulated, exploited and asked to take responsibility for the crime,” her attorney Sloan Ostbye said, according to the Union-Tribune.

But District Attorney Patrick Espinoza said nothing had changed since the day the steel door slammed shut behind her.

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Police say Kilgore and her husband were divorcing and that she planned to move back to Pennsylvania to live with her parents.

Kilgore disappeared on April 13, 2012. Four days later, her naked body was discovered near a lake.

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Almost immediately, homicide investigators focused on Perez, Maraglino and Lopez as suspects.

At trial, Lopez testified that when she entered her garage bedroom, Kilgore was on her knees, naked with her head on the floor and taped up. She added that she was waiting for instructions.

“Slaves,” she testified, “ask no questions. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true.”

She eventually went to bed, but hours later Perez shook her awake and they disposed of Kilgore’s body. As police closed in, Lopez wrote a seven-page confession and then attempted to take his own life.

The sex slave confessed that she was the one who attacked Kilgore because she wanted to upset her marriage. Her lawyers say Maraglino was in the room and walked Lopez through the confession.

“[But Lopez] knew what her co-defendants were about. She was aware of the level of violence her co-defendants inflicted on others,” Espinoza said in court, adding: “She was a major player.

“She is trying to evade responsibility, blame others and point the finger at her co-defendants,” Espinoza said.

Her lawyer charged: “She was willing to get cut, get tattooed, eat out of bowls and even kill herself.” She was so controlled and brainwashed that she did as she was told became.”

bhunter@postmedia.com

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