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Cesar Laurean's attorney Dick McNeil spoke with WHQR 91.3 FM about Laurean and the fact that he might possibly be tried twice.

Since North Carolina and the United States Marine Corps are basically two different entities it's possible that even though NC has said they would not seek the death penalty in the case against Laurean once he is finally extradited, the Marine Corps is silent on it. When he is finally returned to the United States it's possible that he may face two trials, one in civilian court, and since he is still considered an active member of the United States military he may be tried again in military court.

Perhaps Maria Lauterbach will receive justice in the murder after all...

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Right in the middle of supper now but I'll update this further this evening.

Dewey Hudson, the Onslow County District Attorney, says it will be October before Laurean is back in the U.S. Obviously Sheriff Brown's office has not dealt very much with international extraditions which sometimes take weeks if not months. Cesar Laurean is still eligible to appeal the Mexican judge's decision to extradite him. If he doesn't appeal it will be a month or so before he's returned. If he does appeal it might be sometime in 2009 if the appeal is denied.

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He apparently took about 6,000 pages and 30 computer disks (they still use those?) of files, reports and other documents while he was working in the Onslow County DA's office. He was making copies for Dick McNeil, Cesar Laurean's defense attorney and took them then.

Sharpe, a former Marine, was arrested Friday morning about 2 a.m. outside of District Attorney Dewey Hudson's office with a bunch of folders and CDs. They have searched his car and house but haven't found any other copies.

Apparently the dumbass mentioned on a local newspaper's blog that he had access to the Laurean information. Don't make them much dumber than that I suppose. It's assholes like this and Laurean that give the Corps a bad name. They shame the men that are serving and that have served.

Dick McNeil has tried to contact Mexican authorities, as has Dewey Hudson, to see where the extradition process stands but apparently he's having a hard time getting any answers and nobody wants to press the Mexican government as they are afraid Mexico won't extradite him if they get too pushy.

From what I was reading over at WNCT the main thing that the DA's office is worried about is for some Mexican judge to think there is corruption in Onslow County and decide that Laurean wouldn't receive a fair trial by sending him back.

Cesar Laurean is the asshole that murdered U.S. Marine Maria Lauterbach back in December and then fled to Mexico.

I missed this back at the end of July and wanted to post it as it is pertinent to the Murder of Maria Lauterbach. Her mother testified before congress back at the end of July asking for more effective military training on sexual assault.

I still haven't heard any more news in whether or not Cesar Laurean will end up being returned to the U.S. or not. Last I heard he had filed an appeal on the subject.

Shortly after posting this I came across another story that is remotely related to the case. One of the interns for prosecutors in the Maria Lauterbach case has been arrested and charged with embezzlement and larceny. An investigation into some blog postings that contained information that was not released to the public led to the arrest.

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Lindell Kay is a reporter with (I think) the Jacksonville Daily News, one of the local North Carolina papers and web sites. There is a blog called Off the Cuff with some really good stories and entries. I don't believe I haven't run across the site prior till today but now that I have I will be returning.

Anyhow, Capt. Rick Sutherland from the Onslow County Sheriff's Department has been answering some questions over there and you may be interested in reading them. Here are a couple of his answers from over there:

If you want any more information from the thread or want to read some more of the reports you need to head over to Off the Cuff as I certainly don't want to steal the thunder. It's a pretty good site and Lindell makes a damn site more sense than I do.

They have also started a new thread over there with new questions for Sutherland. If you do drop by don't leave any stupid theories (in that particular thread) as he will not comment on your theories. Pertinent questions only and make sure you read the previous threads to see if your question has already been answered.

Police are investigating whether or not Cesar Laurean may have emailed North Carolina authorities to ask about turning himself in while he was on the run in Mexico.

The fact that he was using the Internet did help police narrow down the area that they needed to be looking for him in.

So Cesar Laurean has been captured. It's all over the Internet and the TV. The Maria Lauterbach case and the hunt for Cesar Laurean has been out of the news for a short while but that doesn't mean that the investigation hasn't been going on the whole time. CBS had this report yesterday morning.

What I find confusing is the fact that at least CNN had reported that they nabbed Cesar Laurean during a roadblock set up by the anti-kidnapping task force. Now it's being reported that they arrested Laurean walking down the main street in San Juan de la Vina in Tacambaro. The FBI is also reporting that their agents were present at his arrest but did not specify if they actually played a role in the arrest or not.

Here's a map of the approximate area where they caught him.

He made it a pretty good ways. It's not like he was just right over the border, but then he's had three months to make it there.

It's somewhat confusing getting the conflicting stories, but then again, the initial stories are often wrong particularly considering when it's another country entirely.

According to CNN Laurean spoke briefly with the AP while he was held by Mexican police.

Also according to CNN people that lived in the area wondered about Laurean and it seems that quite a few simply assumed that he was some sort of drug dealer and seemed quite OK with that. The locals that were interviewed said that Laurean didn't fight back when he was captured and that he went along peacefully.

He had told at least one of the locals that he had just come back from Spain and that he was being punished by his parents who were making him live on an avocado orchard.

Laurean has been living in a wood cabin in the mountains and walked into town on a daily basis so that he could use the local Internet cafe. No doubt to chat with his wife Christina and see if there was any news on his search.

Apparently he and Christina have been emailing through MySpace. From what I was reading earlier Cesar consistently asked for help from his family and Christina consistently denied it. The prosecutor for Onslow County, NC has said that communicating with him is not illegal just as long as she was not helping him. The local PD also say that she very specifically denied help to him and that they would not have captured him if it weren't for Christina Laurean's help. I still don't have the link to their MySpace pages, at least not current ones. This is one that I know of but it hasn't been logged in to since January. If anyone has run across them, send me an email or leave a comment.

The FBI is waiting for him to be extradited to the United States and have been encouraging him to waive extradition, letting him know that regardless of how he fights i, he will eventually be returned to the U.S. Right now he is being held at a Mexico City prison. Dewy Hudson, the district attorney in North Carolina where he will be tried has agreed not to seek the death penalty as Mexico refuses to send anyone back to the United States unless they are assured that they will not face execution. The Sheriff of Onslow County has also promised that Laurean will be treated as any other inmate once he is returned. He made the statement that the alleged killer 'is not an animal'.

The United States Navy is also going to perform a paternity test when he is returned to find out whether he was the father of the unborn child or not. They are waiting for his return since they want a reliable DNA sample from him. It is supposed to take at least 60 days to file the extradition paperwork with the Mexican government. I'm sure they could expedite the process but they will most likely want to cross all their t's and dot the i's before getting him back so as to not deny him any due process before bringing him home.

In at least one of the posts I wrote I mentioned immigration as well as illegal aliens. Tammy Bruce made mention of it in a recent post about Cesar Laurean's capture, mentioning that's he's a 'scum Marine murderer'. She's got that part right but what she doesn't have right is that she correlates the fact that we need to get the wall built between Mexico and the U.S. to keep murderers fleeing to Mexico in order to avoid the death penalty, or at least that's inferred. I am all for kicking the illegals out but just as Arizona has taken the lead in enforcing it's existing laws and forcing the illegals out using plain old economics, perhaps the rest of the country needs to take a look at that and quit with the stupid fucking wall. What a waste of my tax money. All the wall is doing is keeping legal U.S. citizens inside and pissing off tax-paying landowners along the border. Why are we allowing our representatives to turn our country into a police state in the name of freedom. What a crock of shit.

Anyhow, back to the subject at hand. What exactly did Cesar mean by "proof" when questioned by reporters? That he thinks prosecutor's don't have enough or that there is proof he didn't do it?

Lauterbach and Laurean were both personnel clerks in the same logistics unit at Camp Lejeune, an expansive coastal North Carolina base that is home to roughly 50,000 Marines. Detectives believe Laurean killed Lauterbach, who was 20 and eight months pregnant, on Dec. 14 after forcing her to remove money from her bank account.

Detectives have said Laurean left behind a note for his wife in which he denied killing Lauterbach but admitted to burying her remains. In the note, Laurean said Lauterbach committed suicide by cutting her own throat.

Authorities rejected the assertion, saying evidence indicates Lauterbach died of blunt force trauma to the head.

Lauterbach accused Laurean of rape last spring, a charge he denied and one that Naval investigators were unable to corroborate. Even though Lauterbach later told investigators she did not feel Laurean posed a danger or threat to her, the pair was separated on base. The Marines have said their regimental commander was intent on taking the case to a hearing that could have led to a trial.

According to WRAL in North Carolina, Cesar Laurean may have contacted the Onslow County Sheriff via email on March 30th about the possibility of surrendering. The sheriff received an email that purported to be from Cesar Laurean, who wanted to open a dialogue with the sheriff and arrange for his surrender. According to the email the sender wanted to know if they could arrange for immunity from a military trial and that he was afraid to go to Fort Leavenworth or a military chain gang. They have not verified if the email was from Laurean or not. It did appear to be sent from Mexico but misspelled Laurean's last name.

After consulting with the district attorney Brown wrote that he could not ensure the sender immunity from military prosecution but that so far the military had let civilian authorities take the lead in the investigation.

America's Most Wanted seems to have finally updated their page on Laurean as well. Found the link by way of Websleuths. The forums are a pretty good place to follow crimes like this. Some of the theories seem to be pretty sound, while others may be a bit out there. One that seems to be fairly popular over there is that Christina Laurean masterminded the whole thing. I am kind of ambivalent on that one. It's entirely possible but I'm still not sure that was the case. The thing that makes it somewhat credible is the fact that he's still proclaiming his love for Maria and it may be that Christina actually killed her or at least made him do it. She certainly helped clean up after the fact.

One of the ladies over at Websleuths posted this:

WTF? This is kind of out there. I haven't seen any references or links that confirm this, just someone else's opinion, although since 90% of the above is my opinion I guess it's no better than hers. What facts do you have to show that Christina and Cesar were waging a war of harassment? That she had been harassed by other marines and her car keyed? It happens at corporations where the buddy buddy system is in place too. I wouldn't exactly call that an escalating war though.

Other Related Entries:

• Pregnant Marine Is Dead - January 11th, 2008
• Warrant Issued for Cesar Laurean - January 12th, 2008
• Cesar Laurean Sighted - January 13th, 2008
• Irritating People - January 14th, 2008
• Maria Lauterbach Autopsy Results;Laurean's Truck Found! - January 15th, 2008
• Cesar Laurean Bought Shovels and Paint on Video - January 18th, 2008
• Fugitive Marine Cesar Laurean Spotted in Mexico - January 22nd, 2008
• Grand Jury Indicts Cesar Laurean - January 25th, 2008
• Interpol After Cesar Laurean - January 28th, 2008
• In the News - January 30th, 2008
• Police Meet With Christina Laurean Again... - February 14th, 2008
• Wonderful Searches... - February 25th, 2008
• Maria Lauterbach Autopsy Results - March 15th, 2008
• Cesar Laurean Captured - April 12th, 2008
• Laurean Expected Back in the U.S. Sooner - April 12th, 2008

According to the prosecutor for Onslow County, North Carolina, he expects Cesar Laurean to waive extradition and be back in North Carolina soon. Later on in a news conference today though he said that depending on how Laurean deals with extradition it might take a couple of days or a couple of years.

Laurean has been taken to Mexico City where he is being questioned by Mexican federal authorities according to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

When asked about whether Laurean was caught by accident, Brown (the prosecutor) said that "I know what's been going on behind the scenes...I'm confident in saying that the reason Cesar Laurean is in custody is by the professional pursuit that the agencies, all agencies involved, have carried on from the time he left here".

Using the information that the FBI gathered when they seized his sister-in-law's computer they were able to narrow down the area that needed to be searched.

I went to bed fairly early last night so I missed the news about the capture of Marine Corporal Cesar Laurean until just a few minutes ago. After having been on the run for three months, Mexican police have finally captured the fugitive according to the FBI.

When a Mexican reporter asked Laurean if he had killed Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach he replied that he loved her.

Cesar Laurean was arrested last night around 7 p.m. after he approached a roadblock set up by the local anti-kidnapping task force. When they asked him his name he gave his real one, which of course threw up a red flag once it was entered into a criminal database. The authorities are saying he was peaceful and surrendered with no resistance. He had apparently been sleeping in trees and surviving off their fruit. Laurean is thin and obviously has lost weight from being on the run.

According to Dewey Hudson, the district attorney for Onslow County North Carolina it might take up to two years to get him back if he chooses to fight extradition. Of course they are happy that he has been captured but Hudson said he was dissapointed that Laurean was captured in Mexico rather than America because now the death penalty has to be taken off the table.

Recently the FBI seized a computer belonging to Laurean's sister-in-law. Apparently Christina Laurean was using it to communicate with Laurean through emails. They also seized her diary. According to the FBI Christina Laurean was still very much in love with Cesar Laurean but was also angry with him.

As long as she was not not trying to help him, it was not illegal for her to be communicating with Laurean as his wife.

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