Strip Poker Threesome Allegedly Lead To Murder

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Police say Elizabeth 'Lizzi' Marriott, the 19-year-old killed during an attempted sexual assault on October 9 in Dover, New Hampshire, was the victim of a violent strip poker threesome.

Police affidavits describe a text message suspect Seth Mazzaglia sent his then-girlfriend, Kathryn McDonough, that described a lurid detail a bondage sexual encounter and suggested McDonough include a friend, someone to 'offer' to him.

Authorities believe Marriott may have been that offering. They say she was lured to their apartment after class on Oct. 9, not long after McDonough met Marriott, a University of New Hampshire sophomore who worked with her at Target.

Seth Mazzaglia, 30, has been charged with killing Marriott and prosecutors have alleged he orchestrated an extensive coverup.

Authorities say his then-girlfriend, Kathryn McDonough, used Marriott's car to drive her body to Peirce Island in Portsmouth and dump it in the Piscataqua River, that pours into the Atlantic Ocean.

Her body has never been recovered.

Mazzaglia says her death was an accident during a night of consensual sex.

The circumstances of Elizabeth Marriott's death remain a dark mystery involving the couple, who authorities say trolled fetish websites in search of sex slaves.

The pair are described them as bondage enthusiasts who frequented fetish sites - him under the monikers 'DarkKaiser' and 'Enigmatic Shadows' and her as 'Rouge Temptress.'

Thirty-year-old Seth Mazzaglio was a 2006 graduate of UNH with a degree in theater and a fourth-degree black belt in karate who taught at the dojo he started attending as a police in Kittery, Maine.

Nineteen-year-old Kathryn McDonough is a former honors student who dropped out of high school in February of last year.

Marriott's disappearance set off a full-scale search in the seacoast region that is home to the UNH campus.

But it didn't take long before Marriott's last text message — telling a friend she was going to 'Kat's' - had investigators looking hard at McDonough and Mazzaglia.

Recently released court documents describe the couple's interviews with police starting three days after Marriott disappeared.

First Mazzaglia said Marriott had never made it to their place that night — he had gone out for a run, hurt his ankle and was slow returning to the house. McDonough told police she went to a nearby cemetery in hopes of capturing images of ghosts with her digital camera.

But Mazzaglia's story soon began to change.

In an interview later the same day, he talked of bondage and sadomasochism. He implicated McDonough and another couple in harming Marriott, saying when he arrived home Marriott had a ligature mark around her neck. He suggested another man had done something terrible, but he wouldn't say what.

Finally, police said, Mazzaglia admitted he was involved. He and McDonough were playing strip poker with Marriott and that led to intercourse. Mazzaglia said he was having sex with Marriott — and tightening a rope around her neck — when she had a 'seizure.'

   

Kathryn McDonough, 19, was charged with lying to the police about her whereabouts on the night that a supposed friend went missing. Struggling Actor Seth Mazzaglia, has been arrested and charged with the murder of missing student Lizzi Marriott.

Mazzaglia told investigators neither he nor McDonough tried to revive Marriott or summon help. Instead, he told them, he put a grocery bag over her head and tied it at the neck.

Mazzaglia told investigators he and McDonough used Marriott's 2001 Mazda to take her body to Peirce Island in Portsmouth, where they threw it and her cellphone into the Piscataqua River.

When Marriott's torso remained above water, he said, McDonough went into the water and pushed it under, making a joke about 'Davy Jones' locker.'

The pair then drove Marriott's car to UNH, left it in a student lot and discarded her belongings in trash bins, authorities allege.

Mazzaglia was arrested Oct. 13 — a day after he was interviewed — and McDonough on Christmas Eve. He is being held without bond, charged with first-degree murder.

She has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and hindering prosecution. She was released on $35,000 bond on the condition she live with her parents in Portsmouth.

Trial dates haven't been set for either defendant.

Through a family spokesman, the Marriotts have railed at that notion she died during consensual sex with Mazzaglia.

Family members describe Marriott as 'gullible' - someone who easily could be taken advantage of because of her trusting nature.

One family friend from Westborough, Mass., where Marriott grew up, called her naive.

'She was just a good girl. That's probably what got her in trouble,' Dawn Downey said. 'She was too trusting and she was beautiful. Those two things will kill you.'

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