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I FReepmailed a version of this scenario - but this is my final answer.

Maria & Cesar began a casual, consensual sexual romp. Maria discovered she was pregnant & Cesar demanded that she have an abortion or it would wreck 2 careers and one marriage. He pressured her every day to obtain an abortion. Maria was insulted & vengeful. To stop his abortion pressure and avoid contact with him, she accused him of rape. She didn’t stop to think that the combination of rape charges & giving birth to his unwanted child would tip him over the edge from an adulterer to a murderer.

After months of questions, counseling, MPOs and no communication or contact with Cesar, Maria was contemplating dropping the rape charges and moving on with her life, her child and terminating her military career. She contacted Cesar for a meeting, but failed to tell him why.
Cesar assumed she had DNA evidence and was going to threaten him with child support or had DNA evidence to successfully pursue the rape charges.

NOTE: This is when, IMO, he planned to kill her.

He invited her to his house while his wife would be out - Maria drew $700 out of her ATM on Dec. 14th and drove to Cesar’s house. Cesar ambushed her with a tire iron in the garage...she tried to get away, begging for her life & her baby’s life. But scared and enraged he killed her.

Christina came home unexpectedly and witnessed the murder scene. She was in shock as Cesar tearfully confessed to his wife that Maria Lauterbach was pregnant with his child, would not get an abortion - & that he would be responsible for child support...and that he faced unfounded rape charges.

Christina accepted Cesar’s rationale that Maria Lauterbach could not be allowed to give birth to a viable child and continue to ruin their lives for the rest of their lives.

The two then hatched a plan to make it look as if Lauterbach had just run away. Christina dressed in her own Marine uniform and purchased a ticket for Texas (for no particular reason) They had Maria’s house & car keys - and wrote a *good-bye* note to delay a missing persons’ report. They tossed her cell-phone and left her car at the bus station.

Thereafter the Laureans dug a fire-pit and on three separate occasions attempted to cremate Maria’s body. Additionally, they purchased paint supplies to remove evidence at the crime scene(s).

Final draft.