Missing (Pregnant) Marine Dead, Authorities Say

KWTX ^ | 1/11/2008 | n/a

[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.

[Girlene]

Good find! No pictures, no last login. Hmmm. Says he’s 32, from Las Vegas, Nevada. Well at least that last part fits.

[freema]

I can’t read it : (

[NCjim]

Indeed

[freema]

Seems to me that the last time Ed Brown waited on a Laurean attorney the Mrs. was finding an adios letter.

That’s a lot of nerve, isn’t it, telling LE not to go on the property without your permission when they’ve discovered a dead, buried, and burned mother and child in the backyard.

[NCjim]

The list of attorneys without a lot of nerve is a short one...

[IamHD]

Is the shoe for sure Maria's? Nancy Grace is saying that it is and she is the only one that's saying this or I missed something.

By the way, Mark Fuhrman is in Mexico and on the hunt for CL.

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/01/27/where-is-otr-producer-steph-watts-and-where-is-mark-fuhrman/

[Girlene]

I have never heard the shoe was Maria's from anyone else. I don't think it's ever been said whose shoes they were. Here's a picture of the shoe found outside. The shoe has blood on the sole; the laces don't look bloody. How would Maria get blood on the bottom of her shoes after she died? The only way would be if she didn't die immediately and walked around. However, you'd think the blood would be on the laces from any on-going bleeding, as well. I can't tell what size those shoes are. Maybe a comparison of shoes with other objects in the picture. Pics are around post 1595

[freema]

Daughter is sleuthing. These are DVS skate(board) shoes. Not that this means anything, mind you, but it’s what they are...
http://www.dvsskate.com/

[IamHD]

I enlarged that shoe until it was humongous, and it definitely looks like blood to me. Reddish/brown. Those globs of hair look like dog hair. I would think that there would have to be something sticky (like blood) on the shoe in order to make the hair stay on the sole.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

I found "Calle Jesus Martinez" in Zapopan, using Google Earth.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

pics of a different "La Mexicana" liquor store, from Mark Fuhrmann

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/

[Lyn_2IDMom]

My soldier son has 2 pairs of these shoes...he ordered them from Iraq and had them shipped home for his return. I thought they looked familiar. He left a few weeks ago headed back off leave and took them with him, but the box is here. Yep used for skateboarding....but he wears his with jeans (no skateboard), seems to be the wave now.

[Lyn_2IDMom]

Where are you now? Have you made it home safely? Tell us more!

Yep, made it home yesterday around 2pm. I was going to drive back by the house, but there were cars out front so didn’t stop and left. May have been onlookers, or attorneys....didn’t stop to find out.

I did clock it from his house to Raleigh, he could have made it in 2 hours to the Morrisville exit or less depending on traffic. I didn’t have school buses to deal with on a Sunday, but he might have been slowed abit by that traveling on a Friday. Not much to report there.

Does anyone remember if the ATM he used was the Marine Federal in the Lowes parking lot? I took pics of that one. Lost my pics of the BOA machine when I attempted to download to laptop.

[Girlene]

Also from Gretawire regarding the pictures: email for the last two pics on the blog

"I just sent you a picture of Cesar Laureans aunts liquor store. This is NOT the same liquor store as earlier reported. He went here FIRST. She has new details about Cesar Laurean. Her name is Maria Ramirez. She is Cesars mothers sister. She has 10 siblings, so Cesar has a huge extended family here. Aunt Maria said Cesar came in on Mon or Tues Jan 14th or 15th. She already knew about the crime but said the topic never came up. She said he looked normal he was clean shaven. She says she hadn’t seen him in 6 years and didn’t ask him why he was here or where he was going. He then went across the street to the cousins liquor store. She claims he’s no longer in the area and says she doesn’t know where he is. She claims she she has not spoken to her sister, Laureans mother. No law enforcement from either country has asked any interviews any of Laureans family."

[FormerWM]

http://www.jdnews.com/news/laurean_54691___article.html/mexico_mexican.html

any volunteers to go with me to help them out with all the paperwork?? HAHA

[Girlene]

This whole thing sounds like a mess. They have to provide sworn affadavits from all the witnesses to the Mexico?! Maybe the CNN reporter or Mark Furman (sp?) will have more luck finding Laurean before any officials even begin to look. Of course, if they found him, what would they do? Mexican authorities can’t arrest him without a warrant can they?

[STOCKHRSE]

This whole thing sounds like a mess. They have to provide sworn affidavits from all the witnesses to the Mexico?! Maybe the CNN reporter or Mark Furman (sp?) will have more luck finding Laurean before any officials even begin to look. Of course, if they found him, what would they do? Mexican authorities can’t arrest him without a warrant can they?

Give him to the FBI...they have a different warrant

[Lyn_2IDMom]

The address listed as the parents address on marriage license also goes back to a Salvador Sanchez in NV, not Salvador Laurean as on the license of father’s address.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

if Laurean is found in Mexico, this is how "extradition" should play out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960819/posts

SAN ANTONIO — A murder suspect who bluffed his way out of a Texas jail in October has been returned to San Antonio after being arrested in central Mexico, the U.S. Marshals Service said Sunday. Mexican law enforcement officials captured David Sauceda, 28, on Saturday outside a house in the town of Tangancicuaro, about 200 miles northwest of Mexico City. Sauceda had been living there with his girlfriend and two children, officials said.

Mexico deported Sauceda on immigration violations without going through standard extradition procedures, authorities said.

"There wasn't an extradition issue at all," U.S. Marshal LaFayette Collins said in a story posted on the San Antonio Express-News Web site Sunday. "The Mexicans wanted to get rid of him."

Sauceda, alleged to be a member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, faces charges of murder, armed robbery and home invasion.

He and his brother, Jesse Sauceda, were charged with killing a San Antonio man in 2006. Six days later, David Sauceda allegedly broke into a 59-year-old woman's house, bound her with duct tape, and stole cash, jewelry and an ATM card. He was arrested in Corpus Christi.

Sauceda broke out of the Bexar County Jail on Oct. 28 by pretending to be his cellmate, reciting the cellmate's personal information. An unidentified person had posted bond for the cellmate.

County officials said the ruse apparently worked because of human error and a breakdown of communication among jail workers. Sauceda was loose for more than six hours before authorities realized he was gone.

Authorities said Sauceda will face additional charges stemming from his escape.

The U.S. Marshals Service in December named Sauceda one of its 15 most-wanted fugitives.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

A google search for

"Cesar Armando Lauren" site:mx

currently results in 34 hits:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22cesar+Armando+laurean%22+site%3Amx&btnG=Search