Missing 8 mth pregnant Marine Maria Frances Lauterbach- NC #7

[JinxieJada]

Originally Posted by STEADFAST
I don't understand. On NG there's a banner that says murder suspect's truck found at motel. Where is that discussed here? How can I be missing that?
(I was at work till after Nancy's first showing.) Please, please tell me what is going on.



http://wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/2304288/


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The truck belonging to a Camp Lejeune Marine accused of killing a pregnant comrade was located at Morrisville motel Tuesday afternoon.


License plates on the black pickup truck parked outside the Microtel Inn & Suites, near the Prime Outlets center off Airport Boulevard south of Interstate 40, matched those on a black Dodge pickup that authorities said belonged to Laurean.

 

[STEADFAST]

Cesar's truck was found at Microtel Hotel in Marrissville, NC. Or some town close to that spelling. I am way over tired now. too much posting!

I'll see what I can find for you and bring it forward. Unless someone else beats me to it steadfast.

No Cesar located yet though.

Thanks, Miss Bambi Please don't look if you're tired. I can go look -- plus, I got the lowdown from panthera. Oh, also thanks for the timeline and all the rest of hard work you do!:blowkiss:

 

[panthera]

Thank you so much, panthera! I agree with fran -- bet he's been there the whole time. Fits in with what was posted.

You're most welcome! I doubt he's still around now, but it does change the possibilities of where he could be from what we were thinking this past weekend. I wish we knew if he had any fake ID.

 

[STEADFAST]

I'd even guess Friday morning. Like Mike Brooks said, it's possible that someone met him there or he had other transportation waiting. Airline manifests need checking for all flights outbound on Friday/Saturday.

Or he could have taken a free airport shuttle.

 

[close_enough]

seven:



I'm not sure that Maria felt she could go to her mother after the phone conversation they had. Rememeber, her mother did supposedly say in this phone conversation she felt that Maria should put the baby up for adoption.

Ok.......maybe now is the time to tell my story. I am adopted. My MOM AND DAD adopted me when I was close to 2 years old. When I was 20, I foolishly had intimate relations with a man and got pregnant. My mother felt that being single I should go to a home for unwed mothers and give the baby up for adoption.

I did go tp the home. I gave birth to a baby girl. My mother had me convinced that I should give this baby up, even though by now I was wavering on that decision. (very close to due date) She brought me a ticket to go to California to stay with some friends to think it over. after I had given birth. I did, I spent a week there, thinking and thinking. It was hard for me.........one as an adoptee and knowing that adopted parents can be loving and good parents and also as a natural mother.

I came home............and today my daughter is 29 and blessed me with two beautiful grandaughters.

Why did I type all of the above? To give you all maybe some of the thoughts/feelings/emotions, etc. that Maria might have been going through along with her mother too.

The glaring difference between Maria and I, is that Gabriel's alledged father was in the picture, my baby's father wasn't.

what a cool story, Lildeer...thanks for sharing

 

[panthera]

Or he could have taken a free airport shuttle.

Oh yes, take the shuttle to the airport, but I also meant someone waiting to take him via car somewhere else. The truck could be "planted" to look like he left from the airport. Mike Brooks also said someone else could've been registered at the Inn and he was with them. So many possibilities I don't envy LE at all in their search!

 

[panthera]

what a cool story, Lildeer...thanks for sharing

I'd missed her post earlier and just read it. Beautiful! :blowkiss:

 

[STEADFAST]

Oh yes, take the shuttle to the airport, but I also meant someone waiting to take him via car somewhere else. The truck could be "planted" to look like he left from the airport. Mike Brooks also said someone else could've been registered at the Inn and he was with them. So many possibilities I don't envy LE at all in their search!

Being a Marine, he could have friends all over the country. But how many would harbor him, hearing what transpired? I think it's family.

 

[STEADFAST]

I'd missed her post earlier and just read it. Beautiful! :blowkiss:

I know! I got chills when it got to the part where it turns out she kept her lovely daughter.:woohoo:

 

[SuziQ]

NANCY GRACE
Manhunt for Laurean Centers on Durham, North Carolina
Aired January 14, 2008 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html

 

[fran]

seven:



I'm not sure that Maria felt she could go to her mother after the phone conversation they had. Rememeber, her mother did supposedly say in this phone conversation she felt that Maria should put the baby up for adoption.

Ok.......maybe now is the time to tell my story. I am adopted. My MOM AND DAD adopted me when I was close to 2 years old. When I was 20, I foolishly had intimate relations with a man and got pregnant. My mother felt that being single I should go to a home for unwed mothers and give the baby up for adoption.

I did go tp the home. I gave birth to a baby girl. My mother had me convinced that I should give this baby up, even though by now I was wavering on that decision. (very close to due date) She brought me a ticket to go to California to stay with some friends to think it over. after I had given birth. I did, I spent a week there, thinking and thinking. It was hard for me.........one as an adoptee and knowing that adopted parents can be loving and good parents and also as a natural mother.

I came home............and today my daughter is 29 and blessed me with two beautiful grandaughters.

Why did I type all of the above? To give you all maybe some of the thoughts/feelings/emotions, etc. that Maria might have been going through along with her mother too.

The glaring difference between Maria and I, is that Gabriel's alledged father was in the picture, my baby's father wasn't.

Littledeer:

Thank you for taking the time to tell 'your story.' You're so sweet.

I think that anyone here who is a mother, can understand where Maria was coming from, and you TOO!

The bond between a mother and child, not even yet born, is unbelieveable!
I know, been there, done that...................but not as an adopted child........IMHO, it would mean MORE to that individual.

You not only were blessed with a beautiful daughter and then wonderful grandchildren..................They were blessed to share their life with you.

That's what makes Websleuths so great! A community of human beings with a multitude of life experiences, coming together to blend their ideas and feelings into ONE case and toss them to another scenario. We may not always agree, but we're here for one purpose, to help the victim(s).

Thanks again for sharing.

:blowkiss:
fran

 

[fran]

Oh yes, take the shuttle to the airport, but I also meant someone waiting to take him via car somewhere else. The truck could be "planted" to look like he left from the airport. Mike Brooks also said someone else could've been registered at the Inn and he was with them. So many possibilities I don't envy LE at all in their search!

ON another note, it was only 1/2 mile to the airport from the motel. Honestly, how difficult would that be for a Marine to walk?

IMHO, not much..........

fran

 

[Tom'sGirl]

ON another note, it was only 1/2 mile to the airport from the motel. Honestly, how difficult would that be for a Marine to walk?
IMHO, not much..........
fran

Agreed!

 

[Tom'sGirl]

NANCY GRACE
Manhunt for Laurean Centers on Durham, North Carolina
Aired January 14, 2008 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html

Thanks for the link SQ!

 

[SuziQ]

From the Nancy Grace transcript. Brown describes the frustration his investigators experienced in dealing with the lower unit Marine department. Who is on that unit? Did they know Cesar and his wife? Is that why there was so much foot dragging and hostile treatment of Maria?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html

Now, soon thereafter, when the report of the rape without a name was found out, which was in the report, after the officer called Mary, Miss Mary Lauterbach, the officer handling the missing persons made the attempts to contact the base. Now, this is not the brass but the unit level. Those attempts were futile and did not result in any callbacks.

GRACE: Got it.

BROWN: When that investigator who -- the criminal investigator was handed the investigation, because it appeared to be suspicious in nature, the same results -- no callbacks.

GRACE: Let`s go out to -- hold on just a second.

BROWN: Just a minute. Just a minute.

GRACE: OK.

BROWN: Just a minute. No results. The investigators came to me with a degree of frustration and -- because they weren`t being called back in their attempt to try to find out something about the rape from the unit level. That is when I called the command brass level and learned that they did not know about it. And that is when I met the top echelon and discussed it with them and immediately things began to happen that we needed to happen. And that is -- was on the 7th.

And if you`ll notice, on the 7th, once things -- we got started getting some movement, it was only about five days later before we had discovered where the body of Maria Lauterbach is.

ETA: it was Maria's unit that would not call LE back!!! Yep, I want to know who was at that BBQ.

 

[SuziQ]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html
GRACE: To Hugo Rodriguez, defense attorney and former fed.

Hugo, what do you make of the military police not giving the rape information to the local authorities?

HUGO RODRIGUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Unconscionable. It`s something that they should have provided. As the sheriff is telling us, for some reason or not, someone was either obstructing them or interfering with that. It wasn`t the brass. It was at the unit level. But that`s information that should have been provided. It would have been essential in this investigation.
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The unit level didn't just not provide the information. They wouldn't call the sheriff back!

 

[Taximom]

((Littledeer)) Thank you for sharing your story with us. I can only imagine what Maria was going through, especially at her young age and being in a mostly male Marine environment. My heart aches for her. She didn't deserve to die and neither did her precious little baby boy.

 

[fran]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html

The unit level didn't just not provide the information. They wouldn't call the sheriff back!

And they want us to believe what they said..........

grrrrrrrrrrrr.............:behindbar

fran

 

[SuziQ]

And they want us to believe what they said..........

grrrrrrrrrrrr.............:behindbar

fran

I missed the presser and can't bring myself to watch it. But was NCIS caught in a lie regarding Maria's OB appointment? Or was NCIS reporting info they got from the unit level? Whatever info came from that unit level can not be trusted, IMO.

 

[STEADFAST]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0801/14/ng.01.html
GRACE: To Hugo Rodriguez, defense attorney and former fed.

Hugo, what do you make of the military police not giving the rape information to the local authorities?

HUGO RODRIGUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Unconscionable. It`s something that they should have provided. As the sheriff is telling us, for some reason or not, someone was either obstructing them or interfering with that. It wasn`t the brass. It was at the unit level. But that`s information that should have been provided. It would have been essential in this investigation.
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The unit level didn't just not provide the information. They wouldn't call the sheriff back!

It has occurred to me that maybe Laurean was the person in charge of answering the phone. I know at many of my husband's units, the personnel clerk would be the one answering calls.