Fallbrook was a small town that sat immediately east of the entrance to U.S. Marine Corps’ Base Camp Pendleton. With a population of just 30,000 people, most of the town was comprised of military families. Brittany lived at the La Galiana de Cortez apartments in a small upstairs apartment just a short walk from the entrance to the base. She had grown up in The Ozarks in Missouri, but her family had since moved to Pennsylvania. Once her divorce was finalized, she would have no reason to stay in the military town, so on that rainy afternoon she and her friend Channy Tal were packing boxes for her move to Pennsylvania.