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Missing (Pregnant) Marine Dead, Authorities Say
KWTX ^ | 1/11/2008 | n/a

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 she’s 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.


TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: camplejeune; laurean; marialautenbach; marine; militarywomen; missing
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To: debm29palms

Interesting that Cesar was a no-show. I’d love to know what his excuse was. There are not too many “good” excuses for missing a unit function. Most are lovingly called “mandatory fun.”


1,741 posted on 01/22/2008 10:30:12 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: najida

Absolutely.


1,742 posted on 01/22/2008 10:31:55 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Girlene
Looks like it. Those bins have probably been moved. No telling what they are covering.

Here is an inverted picture of the bags.


1,743 posted on 01/22/2008 10:32:55 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
No, sorry. Tried enlarging the image and still can’t make out the print on the bags. They look very new, though, don’t they?

At first I thought they were grass seed, but I don't think so. I can't read the lettering. Does that one line say Step 1? I need better eyes!


1,744 posted on 01/22/2008 10:33:24 AM PST by Girlene
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To: Girlene

Step 1, that’s what I was thinking ... and the second word on the first line is maybe “Base”??


1,745 posted on 01/22/2008 10:36:00 AM PST by maggief
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To: Girlene

Looks like soil to me. There’s a little bit spilling out of the corner of one of the bags. That one word on top might be “rose.” Soil for preparing a rose bed?


1,746 posted on 01/22/2008 10:37:40 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: maggief

__________base, Step 1.

OK, DIY’ers HELP!


1,747 posted on 01/22/2008 10:37:53 AM PST by najida (I am so grateful that stupid isn't contagious.)
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To: najida

___ floor base

Step 1

???


1,748 posted on 01/22/2008 10:45:30 AM PST by maggief
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

I don’t think it is the same shirt. The one at the ATM has an orange colored symbal in front and by cropping, cleaning up etc, the one with the baby doesn’t have it. BUT...He either lost alot of muscle/weight or that is not him at the atm with the cap. Still searching for a brother “Salvador Laurean” but no luck. Be interesting if there is one if they favor and he was helping.

Every pic I have seen of Cesar, he wears “tight” t’s and very muscular. My soldier does the same thing now, buys them a size smaller so he can show how “BUFF” he is.


1,749 posted on 01/22/2008 10:51:19 AM PST by Lyn_2IDMom
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To: maggief; All

I give up unless there’s a blowup of the plastic bags. Notice the stains on the floor, though. Does that look like blood stains on the floor in the shape of the plastic bin? Looks like maybe blood pooled around the bin before it was moved and the stain set in the floor.


1,750 posted on 01/22/2008 11:06:13 AM PST by Girlene
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To: maggief

Printed out pic and looke thru magnifying glass, it says something Base Step 1 or something. Looks almost like Border Base Step ?

That is the area they say she was killed in, the marks on the floor is where containers were sitting they confiscated for testing.
Greta asked Sutherland if the dark spots in front of the mower and on the concrete were from blood, he said they did luminol and it showed blood along with some other test that SBI did, they processed the info.....no luminol pics available as of yet....SBI has those.


1,751 posted on 01/22/2008 11:11:42 AM PST by Lyn_2IDMom
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To: Girlene

I gave up too. There is definitely a mark on the floor where a bin had been previously.

UPDATE:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/22/missing.marine/index.html

Fugitive Marine spotted in Mexico, cousin says

ZAPOPAN, Mexico (CNN) — A cousin of suspected killer Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean said Tuesday that he saw Laurean near Guadalajara, Mexico, a week ago.

Juan Antonio Ramos said he did not know at the time Laurean visited him at his liquor store in Zapopan that he was then being sought by authorities for murder.

(snip)


1,752 posted on 01/22/2008 11:12:10 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Ruh-Roh. The Mexican authorities better put up lots of posters with the $25,000 award, el pronto! I heard other folks wanted to contribute to the award to up the ante. Guadalajara, Mexico is where he was born.


1,753 posted on 01/22/2008 11:15:36 AM PST by Girlene
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To: maggief

Great, so now we know he’s getting drunk in Guadalajara.

Now, for Christine to spill the beans, someone needs to say he was with a hot chick in the store ;)


1,754 posted on 01/22/2008 11:15:52 AM PST by najida (I am so grateful that stupid isn't contagious.)
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To: najida; Girlene

I’m not so sure we can believe the cousin, or any family member.


1,755 posted on 01/22/2008 11:21:16 AM PST by maggief
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To: najida
Now, for Christine to spill the beans, someone needs to say he was with a hot chick in the store

HAHA! I agree. It would probably work. I agree with maggief, though, family accounts aren't too trustworthy. If he actually was spotted a week ago, he made it to Mexico pretty quick.

FBI spokesman Newsom Summerlin said the FBI plans to circulate in Mexico either matchbooks or business cards with Laurean's photo.
1,756 posted on 01/22/2008 11:27:04 AM PST by Girlene
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To: All
Better pic of the fire pit.


1,757 posted on 01/22/2008 11:40:48 AM PST by maggief
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To: Girlene
From ABC News, photo of a manmade fire pit in Laurean's back yard before investigators began excavating. Looks like a grave, not a fire pit.


1,758 posted on 01/22/2008 11:44:16 AM PST by Girlene
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To: maggief

Looks like,”Base” & “Step 1” to me too

The only thing I’ve heard that used for is when you are going to pave a patio or something like that.


1,759 posted on 01/22/2008 11:45:51 AM PST by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: Lyn_2IDMom

He also has a sister named Blanca. Don’t know if that’s been mentioned yet or not.


1,760 posted on 01/22/2008 11:45:52 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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