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[Music] being an NCIS case agent is a very personal commitment you have to make sacrifices it takes you away from your
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loved ones so it's just a singular focus on pursuing justice this was a once-in-a-lifetime case some of the
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darkness and some of like the just a twisted motivations behind this case was overwhelming April 2012 NCS had assigned
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me to be a liaison to the San Diego Sheriff's homicide department I was working cold case homicides and any
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active homicides that had some involvement with the Navy Marine Corps over the course of this investigation
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you you lived the case Britney Kilgore was the wife of the Marine Britney was a very young attractive girl she was 22
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years old she was very naive came from a very small town and so she had very few
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friends and she was alone in California very far from home Brittany lived in a town called
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Fallbrook California it was about 40 minutes north of downtown San Diego and it was just outside of Marine base Camp
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Pendleton her husband was deployed he was in Afghanistan and at the time their relationship
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wasn't the best and she had decided that she wanted the divorce I was gonna move
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back home she was packing she gets this unexpected visitor who shows up at her door Luis Perez someone who she knew was
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a casual acquaintance Luis Perez was 47 years old he was a staff sergeant in the
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Marine Corps and he was inviting her to go on a a cruise a dinner cruise called the Hornblower Cruises and she just told
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him no I don't want to go I'm moving and then Luis Perez said well I'll help you
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move if you go on the dinner cruise with me she said no multiple times to Perez she told him she don't want to go she
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didn't feel comfortable with him she obviously had that gut feeling he basically propositions her again go on
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this cruise with me and I'll get you some Marines to come and help you move your things Perez had a girlfriend
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Dorothy Marek lino she'd not want to go on what seemed like a dinner date with someone else's boyfriend she was worried
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how that would look Luis had Dorothy get in touch with Brittany and say it's okay with me I was
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gonna go I don't feel good you can go on his cruise so after Brittany gets the approval of Dorothy she agrees to go on
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the dinner cruise with Luis Perez Brittany had no idea what she was getting into that night at 7:40 p.m. on
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Friday night April the 13th Luis Perez drives into the apartment complex where Brittany lives she comes down gets
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inside his vehicle he drives away and within 10 minutes of getting into his vehicle she reaches out to her friend
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and says help Luis Perez had two life's going on he had dual lives Luis Perez did have a
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dark past this was no 50 shades of grey at all I will never understand why that she didn't listen to her good evil
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doesn't look like evil Britney was never gonna get on that cruise they were never
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gonna make that cruise in fact they never even left Fallbrook the NCIS mission is global
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we're on aircraft carriers we're in foreign ports we watch after each other we take care of each other
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NCIS deal with every type of chronic cyber fraud murder general crimes counterintelligence counterterrorism
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every crime is a tragedy involved sisters brothers husbands the only way to find the truth NCIS the cases they
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can't forget