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Race may have been the motive for the brutal murders of Brooklyn-raised Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife, Quiana.

After insisting for months the Pietrzaks were slain by four other Marines for their money, a key prosecution witness dropped a bombshell Friday - racist remarks were spray-painted in the couple's California home.

The words "N----- Lover" were found on the wall near the master bedroom and on a bathroom mirror, Riverside County Homicide Investigator Benjamin Ramirez testified.

Pietrzak, 24, was white, his 26-year-old wife was black, and the four accused Marines are black.

Prosecutors say the Pietrzaks were murdered after the shotgun-toting Marines burst into their home in Temecula, Calif.

Miller said "that they had some conflicts in the past and he didn't really like him that much," Weissinger testified.

So when Miller rang Pietrzak's doorbell last October, the suspicious sergeant armed himself with a kitchen knife, Weissinger said.

They "put a shotgun to his chest and told him to go in the house," the former Marine said.

The killers tied up and tortured the couple. They raped Quiana repeatedly. Then John shot them both in the head, prosecutors say.

"Do them," Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller told Pvt. Emrys John, a former Marine testified Wednesday.

"They had them kneel over the couch and they placed a seat cushion over his head and shot him," 22-year-old Justin Weissinger told the court. "They shot his wife, too. They shot her in the same manner, twice."

Weissinger, who was kicked out of the service in February for flunking a drug test, said Miller gave him that account and even boasted about how they sexually assaulted Pietrzak's wife, Quiana.

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