Missing 8 mth pregnant Marine Maria Frances Lauterbach- NC #3

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SLP said:
Maybe she bought the ticket to El Paso and left the note for her roommate because she was scared and wanted to run? Since I think he did end up killing her I could see how it would be possible that he had threatened her and/or the baby. Maybe she thought El Paso was a place she could hide out?

I know that they think she was killed at his house but has it been ruled out that she was taken there by force?
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Why would she run away when she was about to deliver her baby? She is in the military and has military insurance, which is 100% coverage. Supposedly she was absence without leave, so she would have known someone would be looking for her. I don't know if the military can, but they might have been able to put an alert on her military insurance card so that when it was used they would have been contacted. No, she planned on staying put and deliverig that baby.
 
believe09 said:
Comment on the bus ticket-perhaps fugitive Marine told her he wanted to run away with her and get the hell out of dodge...she went to the house to meet him and he killed her? I am still unclear about what their relationship really was...he could have said, ok honey you buy your bus ticket and I'll buy mine...am I making sense? Then he came and picked her up and brought her home...
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Sounds logical that Maria was blindsided by him. How did they know there wasn't a struggle to bring her there? Wife said so?

I think since LE was late in the game! Who's to say at this point she wasn't forced into a car with him at knife point and taken to their home. They entered through the garage, he stabbed her.

They fought and he did her in, in another part of the home.

The bus ticket I believe may have been early on when she was scared and considering fleeing.
 
Also I'd like to know what day did the neighbor see the fence missing????? The night before should be the day/time of death.
 
OK, I went back to other posts. The neighbor reported the fence missing about 2 weeks ago, which would make it the 12/27?? After Christmas.

Now if she was reported missing on the 12/19, where was she for those 8 days? In the garage, and the wif:eek: e still didnt know, come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
gardenmom said:
Why would she run away when she was about to deliver her baby? She is in the military and has military insurance, which is 100% coverage. Supposedly she was absence without leave, so she would have known someone would be looking for her. I don't know if the military can, but they might have been able to put an alert on her military insurance card so that when it was used they would have been contacted. No, she planned on staying put and deliverig that baby.
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I see your point. It is logical and what most people would think of when that pregnant, ME included. My thought would be that she would have only have thought running away would be a better alternative IF he had threatened her to the point to where she was scared for her life and/or her baby's life and she needed to hide. Law enforcement had not helped her and her own mother had been competely unsupportive. She did end up murdered, possibly that same day, so I think it is possible that she had an instinct something was going to happen or had been threatened.

IF she had been threatened in a way where she was scared for her life I could possibly see it. Taking a trip cross country when pregnant would be scary, running away fromn the military would be scary, having a baby with no insurance would be scary (and EXPENSIVE) but if you are sacred for your life or your baby's life though it could look better than the prospect of what might happen to you if you stay where you are at. I am just thinking that this could be the reason for her buying a ticket on impulse IF she had been threatened by him. Maybe she did not use it because she got scared or thought she could handle it?
 
gardenmom said:
Why would she run away when she was about to deliver her baby? She is in the military and has military insurance, which is 100% coverage. Supposedly she was absence without leave, so she would have known someone would be looking for her. I don't know if the military can, but they might have been able to put an alert on her military insurance card so that when it was used they would have been contacted. No, she planned on staying put and deliverig that baby.
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That ticket doesn't make sense. Do you think it was a positive ID by the ticket person? I hope they showed him a few other pictures to choose from. Has LE found the ticket?
 
ember said:
The ticket was bought Dec 15th by this article....

http://www.jdnews.com/news/hill_54321___article.html/marines_lauterbach.html

Lauterbach was last heard from Dec. 14. She purchased a bus ticket Dec. 15 to El Paso, Texas, but never used the ticket. She was reported missing by her mother Dec. 19.
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I got from the articles I read that she bought the ticket on December 14th but planned to use it on the 15th. (one example) link...

http://www.wnct.com/midatlantic/nct/news.apx.-content-articles-NCT-2008-01-11-0006.html

Is it just me or does it seem that this case has had a lot of, more than the usual, conflicting information in the press?
 
I've been following the news and the discussion here. It's definitely a great site with lots of good insight and theories. Here's what I think.

She was stuck between a rock and a hard place. She was being threatened and harrassed by and his friends. Pressure enough to run away and abandon her charges of rape.

There's been a lot of discussion around her mother and their phone call where she was strongly encouraged to give the baby up. This probably caused additional stress on Maria.

I believe she did decide to leave the base on her own and left the note to her roommate. I also believe she did purchase the bus ticket since it was reported the person selling her the ticket confirmed it was her. Maybe she wanted to go to Mexico to avoid charges going AWOL.

She probably decided to contact to tell him she was leaving and not pursuing the charges so she wouldn't feel threatened anymore. Unfortunately, that didn't work. She ended up meeting him and things went bad and he killed her.

I feel so bad for her - she felt she had no way out. May she and her family find peace.
 
She had a car so why the need for a bus ticket? What woman 8 months pregnant would want to go on a bus ride? It would be terribly uncomfortable IMO and not something any pregnant woman would want.
I would better understand buying a plane ticket if she wanted to ditch her car.

VB
 
She was desperate and needed to get away/leave the country. Maybe she couldn't afford a plane ticket. You think it's easier for an 8+ month pregnant women to drive herself 2000 miles than take a bus? Is it possible someone (his wife) impersonated her to buy the ticket? I guess but it seems pretty far fetched to me.
 
Vegas Bride said:
She had a car so why the need for a bus ticket? What woman 8 months pregnant would want to go on a bus ride? It would be terribly uncomfortable IMO and not something any pregnant woman would want.
I would better understand buying a plane ticket if she wanted to ditch her car.

VB
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Good point.....
 
norcalsleuth said:
I've been following the news and the discussion here. It's definitely a great site with lots of good insight and theories. Here's what I think.

She was stuck between a rock and a hard place. She was being threatened and harrassed by and his friends. Pressure enough to run away and abandon her charges of rape.

There's been a lot of discussion around her mother and their phone call where she was strongly encouraged to give the baby up. This probably caused additional stress on Maria.

I believe she did decide to leave the base on her own and left the note to her roommate. I also believe she did purchase the bus ticket since it was reported the person selling her the ticket confirmed it was her. Maybe she wanted to go to Mexico to avoid charges going AWOL.

She probably decided to contact to tell him she was leaving and not pursuing the charges so she wouldn't feel threatened anymore. Unfortunately, that didn't work. She ended up meeting him and things went bad and he killed her.

I feel so bad for her - she felt she had no way out. May she and her family find peace.
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Then why leave any money in her bank at all? We know she left at least 400.00. Any withdrawals would have been traced if what she intended is to go into hiding.

The only indication there is that Maria intended to runaway is that bus ticket that she supposedly bought. And to El Paso of all places? Maria is so scared of this guy she is going to leave the life she knows and yet makes a phone call to tell him she's leaving and meets with him? That just doesn't add up.

Everything that occured after Maria spoke with her mother, reeks badly of crime staging, IMO.
 
Ok where is Christine now? Is she with the loser on the run? I can't seem to find anything on here about that.. My heart is still breaking over here thinking about Maria & how she was failed so miserably by everyone.. :mad:
 
Maria is kidnapped, her abductor(s) now have her house key. Very easy for someone to slip in write a note and take a few clothes, toothbrush, etc.
 
SuziQ said:
The only indication there is that Maria intended to runaway is that bus ticket that she supposedly bought. And to El Paso of all places? Maria is so scared of this guy she is going to leave the life she knows and yet makes a phone call to tell him she's leaving and meets with him? That just doesn't add up.
IMO.
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Also why (if she did buy her own ticket, which I leaning not to believe) wouldn't she have parked right in front of the buss station? Her roommate said she had a hard time walking and hadn't be feeling very good lately.
I'll ask again, is there a cam in the station located any where?
 
I am behind on this thread.

Someone help me out here to catch up.

1. Was the note found by her room mate computer printed, or in personal handwriting?

2. HOW much money was withdrawn from her bank/funds etc.?

3. Has it been established that Cpl. was perhaps an illegal from Mexico OR?

4. Currently is Cpl. , his wife and child - nowhere to be found?

Thanks everyone.

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The only one I know the answer to is #4. The Sheriff, Ed Brown, indicated in one of his pressers that the suspect's wife was still in the area so it sounded as if he did know where to find her. He would not comment on if she is also a suspect or going to be charged in this case along with her husband. He danced around it nicely.

They also said he has 3 Attys. now and LE doesn't know where he is yet. (If he has 3 attys...then aren't they harboring a fugitive since he has not turned himself in?!)
 
The information I found through court records said that the was born in Mexico as were both of his parents.

It stated his parents current address as Las Vegas Nevada.

But they were all born in Mexico....

HTH
Kel
 
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