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.
I can’t remember, it was the neighbors that said that and I think it was the Allender (sp) lady who said it, the one you can’t understand all that well. Someone moved the lounger on the ground also, guess the cops may have.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/12/missing.marine/index.html?iref=newssearch
The video I clicked was to the left WRAL’s Search on for Marines Body
I wonder if Cesar wrapped Maria up in something to drag, carry, hide her. If so where is that material. Good bet he ripped something out of the pool.
appears to be an alley just beyond the second entrance.
What’s wrong with this picture? Cesear Laurean is on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list. North Carolina has gone through a grand jury to get an indictment. US Marshalls were called in to help hunt for him along with other LE officials across the US. And yet one CNN reporter is in Mexico, interviewing people, going through record searches, contacting embassies, and still there is no arrest warrant for Laurean in Mexico. How difficult is this to get on the phone with the Mexican president and say, I want this done? Go lower, how difficult is this for someone in the State Dept, the FBI, you name it. This is ridiculous. I say up the reward to a quarter million minimum, unleash the bounty hunters, pay them that reward if he’s found, and be done with the search.
I've scanned major mexican newspapers, like La Prensa and see no coverage. I suggest we start sending email to their editorial boards. I have a friend in the newspaper business and I'll ask him what might be done. The spanish-language La Opinion in Los Angeles has published one AP story.
Bookmarking for the road. Catch everyone later in J’ville.
Has it been confirmed whose blood-stained shoe was found on the back step? Did it match the shoe found in the garage?
IIRC Nancy Grace(?) referred to the one found on the step as Maria’s shoe...however, Nancy’s reporter Susan Candiotti is not very well informed. Except for the guy in Mexico who found the cousin - Nancy’s reports are useless.
Bookmark to keep up.
Way back - someone asked if Maria may have had more incriminating information about Laurean, in addition to the rape charges.
Based on the rape, the thefts, the aliases and the gruesome murder of what could be his own child - this is no boy scout - much less a patriotic marine.
Think about it - a *personnel* clerk with access to thousands of military I.Ds There may very well be more than a murder investigation involved.
Camp LeJeune officials must be wishing they had taken Maria more seriously.
a mole working in some capacity for a drug cartel?
any weapons missing from Camp Lejeune armories?
lacking a body bag, Cesar would need to wrap the bodies up until they could be buried.
Air Foirce honor escort accompanies remains of slain Dayton Marine
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An honor escort from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base accompanied the remains of a slain 20-year-old pregnant Marine to a local funeral home today.
The burned remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia in western Ohio were found with those of her fetus earlier this month in a fire pit in the back yard of a Marine colleague's house in Jacksonville, N.C.
The colleague, Cpl. Cesar Laurean, is being sought on an indictment charging first-degree murder in Lauterbach's death. Both were stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
The Patriot Guard Riders from Wright-Patterson provided the honor escort to the Westbrock Funeral Home in Dayton. Funeral arrangements were pending.
Lauterbach's father, Victor Lauterbach, is an Air Force Reserve master sergeant in the 87th Aerial Port Squadron, which is part of the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson.
The family has requested privacy, base spokesman Derek Kaufman said.
Maria Lauterbach, who had accused Laurean of raping her, disappeared Dec. 14.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading the international manhunt for Laurean, 21, who is thought to be in his native Mexico.
http://www.jdnews.com/news/laurean_54622___article.html/christina_lauterbach.html
Laurean's wife's attorney says sheriff needed warrant
BY LINDELL KAY
January 25, 2008 - 10:51AM
DAILY NEWS STAFF
Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown did not have permission to conduct a tour of Cesar Laurean’s property with the host of a national TV news show, according to Christina Laurean’s attorney.
Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean was indicted Thursday on first-degree murder charges in the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach. Lauterbach was pregnant, had accused Laurean of rape and had said at one time that Laurean was the father of her unborn child. She disappeared Dec. 14; investigators say she was killed that day.
Lauterbach’s charred and buried remains were found in the back yard of 103 Meadow Trail, the Laureans’ home.
Brown conducted a videotaped walk through Monday of the Laureans’ home in the Half Moon community with Greta Van Susteren for a segment that aired Monday night on the Fox News show “On the Record.” The show was viewed by an estimated 2 million people.
Yellow tape posted to designate a crime scene and protect the integrity of any evidence was removed Jan. 15.
The Daily News requested a similar tour of the crime scene with investigators that was deferred Tuesday by the Sheriff’s Department. When approached again Thursday by The Daily News for a tour, representatives with the Sheriff’s Department said they had been contacted by Christina Laurean’s attorney and asked not to go onto the Laurean property again without consent or a search warrant.
Jacksonville attorney Christopher Welch, who represents Christina Laurean, said he did not want to talk about particulars, but he did not think the Sheriff’s Department belonged on the Laureans’ property without a search warrant.
Christina Laurean’s attorney told the Sheriff’s Department that any consent given by Christina Laurean to search the property around the time Lauterbach’s body was found had lapsed, and authorities would need a search warrant to enter the property again, said Capt. Rick Sutherland.
During the tour with Van Susteren, Brown discovered a tennis shoe near the back door of the garage where investigators say Lauterbach was killed. He noticed a stain on the sole of the shoe that may have been blood and notified his investigators, who subsequently obtained a search warrant and picked up the shoe.
The shoe will be sent to the State Bureau of Investigation crime lab in Raleigh for testing, Brown said Thursday.
The shoe appears to be a match for a shoe shown in a picture of the garage that was taken when investigators first arrived on the scene Jan. 11.
Christina Laurean knew that Lauterbach was dead and that her husband had buried the body at least a day before she went to authorities on Jan. 11, according to an affidavit attached to a search warrant.
Investigators released photographs Monday that they say show an attempt by Cesar Laurean to cover up blood stains in the garage with brown paint. Surveillance footage shows Cesar Laurean buying paint and other supplies Dec. 16 — two days after they say Lauterbach was killed.
Neighbors have told The Daily News that Christina Laurean helped paint the living room of the house in late December and told them the couple planned to paint the garage next.
Authorities continue to call Christina Laurean a cooperating witness.
Contact police reporter Lindell Kay at lkay@freedomenc.com or 910-554-8534.
You never know - but he is definitely a thief and a killer.
****representatives with the Sheriff’s Department said they had been contacted by Christina Laurean’s attorney and asked not to go onto the Laurean property again without consent or a search warrant.****
Oh yeah - she’s a take charge kinda gal!
No cover the picture I posted came from the fly over the very 1st day when they were out on 4-wheelers and in the air and on the ground, right after they learned of the letter from Christine....so no pool cover over it on the morning of the 11th.
I am in Jacksonville and did a drive by of the house. The fence in ? is very run down and if you blew hard on it - it just might fall down. Dead end culdesac with a trailer park behind it...those trees are only a tree line, 1 tree deep between his back yard and the trailer park. House is 5 or 6 miles from Lowes, which is accross the street from where I am staying.
.....Laurean’s wife’s attorney says sheriff needed warrant....
Well....I didn’t see any no trespassing signs and wanted to get out and walk around. Wonder if this includes a private individual who might want to just lay a flower/flag at the point where she was last.
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