Politics | 04/20/2009 2:15 pm
No Bond for Cpl. Cesar Laurean, Accused of Killing Pregnant Colleague
Cpl. Cesar Laurean © AP
A judge in North Carolina today denied bond for Cpl. Cesar Laurean, who is accused of murdering his pregnant colleague, Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach.
Twenty-two-year-old Laurean returned to the States Friday after being extradited from Mexico, where he reportedly fled a bit before Lauterbach’s remains were found in a fire pit in his backyard. He fled too soon after becoming a suspect in the murder.
Laurean first garnered national attention in 2007, when 20-year-old Lauterbach, with whom the married Laurean worked at Camp Lejeune, accused him of rape. Laurean denied the charges and tests showed that he was not the father of her unborn child. Still, Marine officials began looking into a potential rape charge in October of that year. Lauterbach went missing in December the same year.
Meanwhile, Laurean’s attorney may request the trial be moved because of intense media interest, but if you ask us, a new location’s not going to dissuade the media from following this story.
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My condolescences go to the family and friends of the deceased mother and child. I pray God gives them comfort.
I sincerely hope the capturing of this monster will be of some relief to the family.
Oh, bummer. Too bad. YOu have been denied bail? can’t get out to run away again, costing tax payers millions of dollars to retrieve you?
Hope you rot in hell, you scumbag.
Um, you might want to restate this:
Laurean denied the charges and tests showed that he was not the father of her unborn child.
What tests would those be? They don’t do DNA testing on fetuses. All they did was try to calculate the LMP and due date, which anyone here who’s been pregnant can tell you is not the most reliable method of dating a pregnancy, especially when the conception is so uncertain.
I know Lauterbach’s mom said she was a pathological liar (and wow, I wouldn’t want a mom like that, even if it were true), but let’s not let Laurean off the hook here until the DNA tests come back. They’ve already served him a warrant to take a sample. Even if the contact between those two was absolutely consensual, by the way, he still broke military law by having an affair. Either way, he was looking at prison time. I’m not sure why he thought killing her would be a bargain sentencewise, if indeed he is guilty.