SORROWFUL TIMES

I thought back to how my grandmother would have reacted to the news of a pregnant woman being killed, intentionally, by a man who had raped her 8 and a half months earlier in order to conceal his crime. "Impossible, don't say such things!" she would have said.

Without knowing it Mary Lauterbach may have played into the hands of her stepdaughter's killer by telling the world Maria is mentally ill, a compulsive liar, and had intended to keep the baby after months of talk about giving the baby up. "You can't raise this baby," the mother told her raped and terrorized daughter, right before Maria hung up the phone and bought a bus ticket out of town.

The murderer has left behind a note that at this time I believe said that Maria killed herself in his house and he panicked. If Cesar Laurean were to be captured alive (which I believe he won't) and brought to justice the capital defenders, Kevin Peters and Rick Miller will once again face off with Ernie Lee in court with a defense based on the documented testimony of the young pregnant Marine's own mother. "She was insane, came into the house ranting and raving about all kinds of things, waving a knife about, first shoving it at Mr. Laurean, a man on trial for his life, a man that was fixated upon by this QUOTE BIPOLAR COMPULSIVE LIAR who then finally as my grabbed at the knife, defending his own life, Ms. Lauterbach fell and fatally stabbed herself. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that sort of scene triggered the post traumatic stress disorder my client has been suffering since he was molested after his parents divorced...."

Laurean then cleaned up the house, hid the death from his wife, burned Maria's remains and after borrowing his neighbors shovel buried what was left of the once proud mother to be in his backyard before cracking under pressure and driving to the middle of the woods and blowing his brains out hoping his wife and child left behind will believe his fucked up lie.

"Impossible, don't say such things!"

All of these women died

Michelle Marie Young, murdered 4 months pregnant, unsolved
Jennifer Nielsen, murdered 9 months pregnant, unsolved
Janet Christiansen Abaroa, murdered first trimester, unsolved
Ebony Chatell Robinson, murdered 9 months pregnant, arrest of best friend's father
Kiawana Grace, murdered 8 months pregnant, cold case, arrest made in December
Then there is Cherica Adams, 7 months pregnant when pro-football player had her killed to avoid child support. Rae Carruth is currently in prison serving 18-24 years for the murder.

About 17 percent of pregnant women are victims of domestic violence

* Less than 7 percent of spouse abuse cases are adjudicated by court-marital. -Symposium on DV Prevention Research, 2002

* Rates of marital aggression are considerably higher than civilian rates, double, three to five times. -The War At Home, 60 Minutes, January 17, 1999; Heyman and Neidig. (1999).

* Recent estimates suggest that sexual assault in the military is experienced by 9 to 4 percent of female service members, depending upon the service branch. An earlier study conducted by the Defense Manpower Center indicated that 5 percent of female respondents and 1 percent of male respondents were victims of actual or attempted rape. -Department of Defense Sexual Harassment Survey, 1995

-Initial Report of the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, DoD, 2001

* 8 percent of female Persian Gulf War veterans in a survey reported being sexually abused during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

* 30 percent of female veterans in a recent survey reported rape or attempted rape during active duty.

* 37 percent of women who reported a rape or attempted rape had been raped more than once; 14 percent of the victims reported having been gang raped.

* The number of cases treated at VA Sexual Trauma Centers include over 22,000 male victims and over 19,000 female victims of sexual trauma. -Veterans' Millennium Health Care Act, Preliminary Findings

* 3/4ths of the female veterans who were raped did not report the incident to a ranking officer. 1/3rd didn't know how to; and 1/5th believed that rape was to be expected in the military. Women who served in Gulf War I were the only group that did not consider rape to be an expected part of military life.

Comments

[Kurt]

Maria drove around town with a huge stuffed teddy bear in the backseat of her car. This is what was left that I can see of a dream she once had.

Mr. DA please bring that bear into court when you put this killer on death row.

[AGG]

i heard the guy pulled apart his fense in the backyard to buld a fire and burn her. thats why you see so many holes in his fense.

[Reba McGraw]

My heart goes out to the family of this poor girl and baby. Thank you Blue Line for your support of this marine!

[anonymous]

Why is it that the military did not protect this woman? She was jumped outside her apartment and brutally raped. Ria reported this to her superiors in April. No charges were ever filed. She was scheduled to testify at an Article 32 in January, 8 months later. The best that the Corp could come up with charging Cesar was Adultry. Had the baby have been born it would have proved nothing about the rape. The Provost Marshalls lack of action killed Maria Lauterbach just as if they hacked her to pieces and threw her lifeless body into a burn pit.

I will miss her and her son.

[I hate Mexicans]

The murderer/rapist/child killer was a mexican who married a white girl and got citizenship. The white girl is in on it. White babies sell for a lot of money.

[Jean Smith]

My gosh people. First of all, he did not burn his fence. Second, she was raped in his office...not outside her apartment. She didn't live in an apartment. She lived in a house with Sgt. Durham. He rented her a room.
As for the discrepancies in the pictures and the body types not maching: Marines are all the time working out and building themselves up. I have lived in Jacksonville all my life. I have many friends that were in the Marine Corp and some that still are. I could send you pics of them when they were slim and after working out.
AS for the pictures being similar: I think more that it is him than it isn't.
AS for his tattoo and why it isn't showing: I studied the pictures closely because it was a good point. I noticed the back of his arm where the tattoo is a little higher up his arm than on front. As for the front of his arm is hidden because he is turned around a little. I do see the tip of a tattoo in the picture at the tip of his sleeve.
As for the truck being registered in someone elses name:I am sure his wife has explained that and I am DEFINATELY sure they have checked on who the registered owner is. They have the truck in the gate at the back of the Sheriff Department.
As for shame on John Walsh at AMW: there was a lot of complaints when the sheriff was giving no evidence and more pictures.Now that they are releasing information there are complaints. This is definate proof that you can't make everyone happy. I think that most people are upset that they don't know everything the Sheriff and the Military know in the case. Time will tell and everyone needs to let them do their job. Would you have thought to go to Lowes and ask for videos? There is a lot we don't know and I am sure it will all come out if we just remain patient. I think this is a way of helping to get the case solved.

[Schmoopy]

The camera angle makes a difference in how a body is perceived. From above, it makes the upper body look large and the lower body look smaller, it's a distorted view.

What does the guy with him know about the murder?

Cesar's probably been beaten and robbed if he went to Mexico. Even though he's a native, he looks more well off than your average Joe.

[smoke 3890]

The arm does not seem to have a tattoo even though you are right about the wide angle lens used by the ATM machine you do see enough of the arm to see that the tattoo is no there.

There is no way someone can change body mass so quickly, notice Lauren in Lowes all beefy and the ATM less upper body mass.

I'm with you Tre this seems to be two separate people.

And if I saw a brand new wheelbarrow in the garage of Cesar's house I would go to Lowes to see what they knew about the purchase. The guy with him should be of interest.

And Maria was on base until she couldnt take it anymore (raped for the second time outside) and then she moved in with Durham since he was going overseas.

[ex-woman Marine]

I served in the Marines in the late 70's. Women were not wanted, respected or treated fair then. It is still a man's world in the Corps. If you were a female, you were gay or there just to have a good time. He was senior so they believed him and not her. There is more to this, it is a bit of cya. Think of it; when you see commercials on TV; are there any women in them?

[Myra Kinderknecht]

The Camp Lejeune USMC JAGS got on TV and lied through their teeth about LCPL Lauterbach who had sought a second protective order against Cesar Laurean. It's ALWAYS ABOUT THE USMC IMAGE AND MISSION -- Report Rape in the Military and you will be PUNISHED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.

NOW - the military unit that found Saddam in an unmarked unmapped remote area hole in the ground in Iraq should have been sent after CPL Laurean. Cesar Laurean left a trail a mile-wide and the Media kept up with him. How ineffective are the people looking for Laurean?

The rantings and threat postings of military men and threats are PROOF that they are trained to be inhumane so they can do 'their job'.
-- or -- PROOF that the military will enist anyone today; gangs, waivers given to felons, -- we've come a long way. It's too bad we went in the wrong direction. Endangering the lives of the military personnel and their families who joined when requirements were "higher" are put at rish by enlisting felons and gang members. Who was the moron who thought this was a good idea?

The HORROR is that "it's always been this way" - as if RAPE is a benefit for the Male Military as opposed to being a crime.
GASP! Pretty much the same with spouse and child abuse.

The Commander-in-Chief sucks! The Joint Chiefs of Staff SUCK! The DoD sucks! All these big old cowards hid behind PFC Lynndie England's skirt. How brave of them!

Well seems like when Stormin Norman (Gen. Schwawrzkopf) retired, the brave, the successful, and the intelligence retired too. GOD Help US

RIP LCPL Maria Lauterbach - and child