BSF - **Sheriff’s Department continues to describe her as a cooperating witness, what role do investigators believe she has played in this series of events?**
While she’s *cooperating* she is also learning some of what they know...and injecting her alibi into the mix.
I still don’t trust her.
I don’t trust her either. I hope I’m wrong because of the 18 month old child, but I do think there’s a strong possibility she’s in this much more than what’s being reported.
And by the way, on Fox just now they played a clip from Michael Baden on Greta last night—I only heard the tail end of it because I was working on another project—but are they really thinking that this woman was burned while still alive? Cruelty beyond belief, if so!
I doubt the authorities trust the wife, either. But, if she’s the key to finding out where he might be, or a connection if he calls/writes home, they have a better chance of catching him if she’s free. Once he’s caught, it would not surprise me if she is charged later with accessory after the fact or something on that order.
Maybe she believed her husband’s story of Maria’s suicide and helped him clean up. Maybe she just missed all the obvious clues inside her home and believed whatever her husband told her about why they needed to paint over stuff. That seems like a stretch, but who knows?
The latest ...
http://wral.com/news/local/story/2316773/
Search Warrant Details Conversation With Wanted Marine’s Wife
Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach
Posted: Today at 9:57 a.m.
Updated: 4 minutes ago
Jacksonville — A day before he was named a suspect in the death of the pregnant Marine he was accused of raping, Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean told his wife he buried her body out of fear, according to a search warrant affidavit returned Thursday.
That conversation took place on Jan. 10 while Christina Laurean and her husband were driving to meet their Jacksonville attorney, the affidavit said, detailing Onslow County sheriff’s investigators’ Jan. 11 conversation with Christina Laurean.
Cesar Laurean also told her that Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach showed up at his home on Dec. 15 to tell him she was leaving Jacksonville and demanded money from Laurean. The two then went to a bus station where he helped her buy a ticket to El Paso, Texas, Christina Laurean told investigators.
Later that night, Lauterbach went back to Cesar Laurean’s house and produced a knife and killed herself, Christina Laurean told investigators, based on her conversation with her husband, the affidavit said.
Investigators believe Lauterbach was killed, despite Cesar Laurean’s claims she committed suicide.
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