Posted on 01/11/2008 9:43:08 AM PST by Pyro7480
January 11, 2008)--Authorities in North Carolina said late Friday morning pregnant Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach is dead.
They said shes buried in a shallow grave, for which investigators are now searching.
They identified the suspect in the case as a Marine officer whom she accused of sexually assaulting her.
Police earlier were planning to interview a man who lived with her and said he would answer questions that "will shed a lot of light on the case."
Authorities said again Friday Marine Sgt. Daniel Durham isn't a suspect, but police believe he's the last person to speak with the Marine.
She disappeared Dec. 14 ahead of her expected testimony in a military investigation into her claim a senior officer had sexually assaulted her.
Court documents show the investigation went sour amid inconsistencies in the woman's story and allegations that she's bipolar and a compulsive liar.
Search warrants show she was facing a possible discharge from the service.
Lauterbach was eight months pregnant when she disappeared.
From what Ed Brown said, I thought that the baby’s hand was intact, but burned off from the arm. But I think he backed away from this very fast, and I assumed it was because it was too graphic.
This quote says the baby was in the abdomen. I never gave thought to the amniotic fluid being a barrier to the fire, but I would certainly have no idea how long that would last.
I would think the farther from the DOD, the fluid would have naturally evaporated.
However this was rationalized in the mind at the time, the longer this goes on, and the more time passes, some one will snap, somehow.
There is no way the wife did not have a clue. What did he tell her, “Honey, I was going to paint the living room red for you, for Christmas, but the can exploded, first in the garage when I tried to open it, and then in the living room.”
Now they are, I posted them at 6pm yesterday, but they didn’t come thru until after midnight....Thanks
Slain Marine’s mom: No one would listen
While mother was waiting weeks for news about her daughter, suspect threw parties at home where body was buried
By Mary McCarty and Margo Rutledge Kissell
Staff Writers
Sunday, January 20, 2008
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. As far as Wanda and Richard Alander could tell, their next-door neighbors were a “perfectly normal family,” a Marine couple in a Marine town with a nice house and an 18-month-old daughter who “just doted on her daddy.”
The Alanders attached no significance to the fact that Cesar Laurean had recently borrowed a shovel from Richard. “He borrowed a rake before,” he said. Nor did Wanda think much of it when Christina Laurean told her they were repainting the interior of their house.
On Christmas Eve, the Laureans lit a bonfire in their backyard. The next day, the cars lined up on the street as they entertained friends and fellow Marines. They welcomed friends to their home again on New Year’s Day.
Life on Meadow Trail continued to appear normal right up until the morning of Jan. 11, when police crews descended on the house just before the world learned that a pregnant Maria Lauterbach was killed and buried in Laurean’s backyard fire pit, and that he was gone.
The night before, the Alanders saw their next-door neighbors sitting on their front porch. She didn’t think much of it at the time, but Wanda said she noticed Cesar kept walking into the backyard.
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/20/ddn012008maria.html
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Marine’s rape claim failed to raise red flags
Mother says slain lance corporal wanted to be sent to Iraq rather than be around alleged attacker
By Mary McCarty and Margo Rutledge Kissell
Staff Writers
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Mary Lauterbach was strolling out of Wal-Mart on May 10 when her cell phone rang. Maria again. Her oldest daughter, “strong as a bobcat,” had seemed lonely and vulnerable since being stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. It was, after all, the first time away from home for the 20-year-old Marine lance corporal from Vandalia. She called three or four times a day so often that Mary found herself guiltily screening her calls.
Maria gasped out the words between sobs: “Mom, I was attacked.”
She didn’t reveal the name of her attacker, only that he was Hispanic, a married man with a child. She said the two Marines had been assigned to night duty together when the man locked all the doors and raped her.
“Maria, when did that happen?” her mother asked.
“April 10.”
“You realize you’ve lost all your evidence now?”
Then her mother got even more stern with her daughter: “Maria, you have to know you cannot make any false statements because that is one of the worst things you could possibly do. You could ruin somebody’s career, and you won’t be doing yourself any favors either when they find out.”
Mary Lauterbach had a solid reason for these words of motherly caution. While assigned to Marine Occupation Specialties School at Camp Lejeune in the fall of 2006, Maria told a disturbing lie to some of her fellow Marines, claiming her father had accidentally killed her 6-year-old brother by throwing a lamp at him. Lauterbach was placed in counseling after her mother assured authorities that Maria’s actual brother, nearly 9 at the time, was alive and well.
Now, Mary Lauterbach told her daughter, it was imperative to tell the truth about the rape allegations. “Maria, if this is true, you have to report it, to protect all the other female Marines there,” she said.
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/01/20/ddn012008mariainside.html
Yesterday was the first time I’d heard that the baby was a girl. Maria apparently believed from her sonogram that the baby she was expecting was a boy. The coroners are going to go back over their findings just to be sure. That is what I’ve heard.
Holy cow!!
Meanwhile, her Jan. 15 due date was fast approaching. During an appointment at the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital on Nov. 26, her obstetrician said her baby weighed more than 6 pounds.
Ashley Dupuis, 19, a friend from boot camp, called in early December to see how Maria was doing.
"She was really down and out," Dupuis recalled. "It was not like her."
Maria once loved the Marine Corps so much she had a USMC bulldog tattooed on her upper right arm.
Now, Dupuis said, "She didn't like it and she wanted to get out."
LOL. Two similar posts. We think alike.
^5
:)
I believe that the initial calls by Maria to her mother are the truth. She knew that there would be "hell to pay." Why would anyone wish that upon themselves in a man's world? No wonder her stories were changing after the 1st report of rape. She was scared to death.
thanks for this link http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4155874&page=1
excerpts;
******...initial autopsy results on Lauterbach’s burned body, found buried in a North Carolina field, indicate that Lauterbach was eight-months pregnant with a baby girl, the official said.
Earlier reports from Lauterbach’s hometown in Ohio had said the unborn baby was a boy, to be named Gabriel Joseph.
She had told her family she believed her unborn child was a boy based on an early sonogram. Officials say a second autopsy will be conducted by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.******
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I trust they can prove unequivocally - that the bodies are those of Maria and her baby - which is tragic enough - just please spare the families more torture.
****Her family still believes she was scared of Laurean.
.....”She desperately wanted to be deployed to Iraq,” her mother said.
Maria confided to her mother that her attacker was “very popular,” and said, “I know there’s going to be hell to pay for saying anything.””.....***
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I so desperately wanted to believe Camp LeJeune’s report. Now -not so much.
How awful. There’s no excuse for that.
So cpl.Laurean was *very popular* - just like some of the other sociopaths in the annals of crime.
Wonder how many *yuck yuck* buddies supported him against Lauterbach in the rape charges?
Do you suppose they also helped him get outta town?
They should be found and drummed out of the Corps and prosecuted with him. I don’t care if they didn’t help him, but if they heard him say anything incriminating about the rape charges they need to speak up.
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