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Key dates in the case of slain Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach

Some key dates in the case of slain Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach.

Sept. 13, 2004 - Cesar A. Laurean enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps. A native of Mexico, he is currently wanted in connection with Lauterbach's death.

April 6, 2005 - Laurean joins his current unit, a combat logistics regiment based at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

June 6, 2006 - Maria Lauterbach enlists in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Nov. 23 - Lauterbach joins Laurean's unit.

May 11, 2007 - Lauterbach tells military officials that she was raped, citing sexual encounters at the end of March and beginning of April. A pregnancy test comes back negative.

May 12 - Marine commanders assign Lauterbach and Laurean to work in separate buildings and issue a verbal order for Laurean to stay away from Lauterbach.

May 18 - Laurean denies having any sexual contact with Lauterbach.

May 24 - A military protective order is issued against Laurean.

June 25 - The protective order is automatically renewed for the first time.

June 27 - Lauterbach seeks medical attention and a pregnancy test comes back positive. Doctors estimate the date of conception as May 14. Lauterbach claims Laurean is the father.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,323865,00.html
July "Christina Laurean discovered Lauterbach was pregnant in July"

Sept. 20 - The protective order is automatically renewed for the second time.

Oct. 22 - Marine commanders submit a request for prosecutors to review the rape case. They wish to hold an Article 32 hearing - the military's version of a grand jury.

Nov. 5 - Lauterbach tells military attorneys that she no longer believes Laurean is the father of her baby.

Dec. 14 - Lauterbach reports for a short work day. She has her final conversation with her mother and withdraws $700 from her ATM account.

Dec. 15 - A bus ticket to El Paso, Texas, is purchased in Lauterbach's name. Authorities believe she is killed later in the day.

Dec. 17 - Lauterbach fails to report to work and her superiors begin to look for her.

Dec. 19 - Lauterbach's mother reports her missing to police in Ohio. A missing persons investigation begins in Onslow County, N.C.

Dec. 20 - Lauterbach's cell phone is found near the main gate at Camp Lejeune.

Dec. 24 - An unidentified white male attempts to use Lauterbach's ATM card.

Dec. 26 - Lauterbach misses a prenatal care appointment.

Jan. 7, 2008 - Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown is informed about the case and detectives execute their first search warrant.

Jan. 8 - Deputies meet with Laurean in the afternoon to question him as a witness, not a suspect. He declines to speak and requests time off from his job at Camp Lejeune to meet with his attorneys. Police search the laptop computer of Marine Sgt. Daniel Durham, Lauterbach's roommate. Authorities later conclude he is not involved. The protective order against Laurean is renewed for a third time.

Jan. 9 - The Marine Corps says it is cooperating with the Onslow County Sheriff's investigation into Lauterbach's disappearance. Laurean does not report to work and requests more time off to meet with his civilian attorneys.

Jan. 10 - Civilian authorities request Durham be returned from a training mission in California for questioning. Laurean again does not report to work and requests more time off to meet with his civilian attorneys. He tells his wife that Lauterbach killed herself by slitting her throat in the couple's home.

Jan. 11 - Authorities believe Laurean flees Jacksonville at 4 a.m. They receive Laurean's note from his wife, Christina, at 8 a.m., and announce four hours later they believe Lauterbach is dead. That evening, the local district attorney says burnt human remains had been found in Laurean's backyard.

Jan. 12 - Authorities complete an excavation of a fire pit in Laurean's backyard and issue a search warrant for his arrest.

Jan. 15 - Authorities find Laurean's truck abandoned at a motel parking lot in Morrisville, N.C.

Jan. 16 - The FBI says they suspect Laurean has fled to Mexico.


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Source: Court documents, AP interviews, U.S. Marine Corps.

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http://www.ncwanted.com/ncwanted_home/story/2307891/

The Marines offered the following timeline in the events leading up to Lauterbach's disappearance:

May 11: Lauterbach confides to her superior officer that she was raped by Laurean. She files a formal complaint with NCIS regarding two incidents of sexual assault in March and April. She is given a full medical examination and the results of her pregnancy test come back negative.

NCIS opens a rape investigation against Laurean.

May 12: Lauterbach is assigned to a new duty location to reduce her contact with Laurean. Typically, Hill explained, the accused is relocated instead of the victim, but Lauterbach's relocation allowed her to be closer to the uniformed victim's advocate assigned to her after the rape allegations.

At this time, Laurean was not considered a threat or a flight risk and continued his normal duty without exhibiting any unusual behavior.

May 18: Laurean is interviewed by NCIS. He denies any sexual contact with Lauterbach.

May 24: A formal protective order is issued against Laurean. Hill stressed that the order was issued to "protect the integrity of the (rape) investigation," not because Laurean was considered a threat to Lauterbach's safety.

Throughout NCIS' investigation, Lauterbach continually stated that she did not feel threatened or frightened by Laurean.

June 24: Protective order renewed.

June 27: Lauterbach becomes ill and discovers she is pregnant. Her doctor estimates her conception date to be May 14. She claims Laurean is the father.

September 20: The protective order against Lauterbach is reissued until December 24. At this time, there is no indication of contact between Lauterbach and Laurean and military investigators have no reason to believe that Laurean has violated the protection order.

October 18: NCIS decides that no disciplinary action will be taken against Laurean in the rape case until DNA tests can be performed on the child.

Lauterbach requests that the case be sent to a military hearing with witness testimony and legal counsel provided for Laurean.

November 5: Lauterbach moves off base to prepare for the birth of her child. She rents a room from Sergeant Daniel Durham. At this time, Lauterbach retracts her allegations that Laurean was the father of her child, but maintains that he raped her.

December 14: Lauterbach reports to work as usual. She does not attend a non-mandatory Christmas party on base. After returning from work, Durham finds a note from Lauterbach stating she can longer tolerate being in the military and is "going away."

She withdraws $700 from an ATM in Jacksonville. Surveillance videos confirm that the withdrawal was made by Lauterbach herself.

December 15: Greyhound Bus records show that Lauterbach purchased a one-way ticket to El Paso, Texas. Her ticket is never redeemed. Her car was later found in the Greyhound Bus terminal parking lot, but investigators have received differing reports on how long the car had been there.

From that point on, Lauterbach was considered to be on "unauthorized absence," but foul play was not suspected.

Hill said that military investigators were not notified that Lauterbach's mother had filed a missing persons report until December 27.

On January 4, Hill said, Lauterbach's mother contacted a Marines first sergeant to inform the command that she would be coming to Jacksonville on January 7 to discuss her daughter's disappearance. At that time, Hill said, she gave no indication that she suspected foul play or that she believed Laurean was involved in her daughter's disappearance.

The Marines were not informed of a $400 ATM withdrawal made by an unidentified male on December 24 or that Lauterbach's cell phone had been discovered on the freeway until January 9, he continued. In that January 7 meeting, military investigators mistakenly informed Lauterbach's mother that her daughter had attended her December 26 prenatal appointment when she actually had not. On January 9, the military hospital corrected that information.

From December 24 until January 7, there was a lapse in the protective order issued against Laurean.

Laurean was brought to NCIS to be questioned by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office as a witness on January 8. He was not issued his Miranda Rights and was not considered a person-of-interest in the case at that time. He requested that he be allowed to retain an attorney before being questioned by the sheriff's office.

On January 11, Laurean didn't report to duty or respond to phone calls from his superiors. Onslow County authorities announced that they believed Lauterbach had been killed and buried, naming Laurean as a suspect in the case.

Until that point, Hill said, Laurean had not been considered a flight risk because he was accused in the rape investigation only, and had not yet been implicated in Lauterbach's murder. Throughout the rape investigation, Laurean continued to show up for work and behave normally.

Laurean is believed to have fled Jacksonville in the early morning of January 11.

Lauterbach's ATM card was found in Durham on January 14 and Laurean's car was found in a hotel parking lot in Morrisville on January 15.

Laurean remains at large, and investigators believe he is in hiding, no longer on the run, and may be receiving help from friends or family in the Triangle area.

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http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/4243996/


Laurean's former home up for auction





Posted: Today at 4:01 a.m.
Updated: Today at 9:33 a.m.

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A law firm is auctioning the Jacksonville house where investigators found the charred remains of a pregnant Marine.

Cpl. Cesar Laurean used to live at the home that's going up for auction Monday afternoon in Onslow County.

He has been charged in the killing of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of Vandalia, Ohio.

Investigators found Lauterbach's charred remains last year in a shallow grave in Laurean's backyard.

Authorities arrested Laurean in Mexico in April and has been fighting extradition back to North Carolina.

The single-story, 1,100-square foot house near Camp Lejeune has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The law firm Brock & Scott PLLC says the opening bid is about $102,000.