Perez and Maraglino sentenced to life in prison without parole for murder of military wife, Brittany Killgore

VISTA - Two people involved in the torture-death of a 22-year-old military wife at a Fallbrook home were each sentenced today to life in prison without parole.

Louis Ray Perez, 49, and Dorothy Maraglino, 40, were convicted last month of first-degree murder and other counts in the April 13, 2012, killing of Brittany Killgore. Jurors found true a special circumstance allegation that the murder happened during a kidnapping.

A third defendant, 28-year-old Jessica Lynn Lopez, was also convicted of murder and will be sentenced Jan. 15.

Killgore had just filed for divorce from her Marine husband, who was deployed to Afghanistan, when she was killed. Prosecutors said Killgore was lured to a meeting with Perez, and her body was found four days later in Riverside County.

According to Deputy District Attorney Patrick Espinoza, a stun baton found in the back of Perez's SUV had the victim's DNA on it. A plastic sheet in the back of Perez's car also had the victim's blood on it.

Lopez's attorney, Sloan Ostbye, told jurors that her client was a victim to a "slave'' contract she entered into with Maraglino in the bondage and sadomasochistic world. Ostbye presented Lopez as a patsy, an abused servant forced to take the blame for a crime she did not commit.

Perez's attorney, Brad Patton, told the jury that Lopez committed the murder.

In 2011, he said, Lopez was heartbroken when another woman came between Perez and Maraglino, who were in an open relationship at the time.