Maria Lauterbach Case - Search for Laurean - WITN

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The nationwide manhunt focused Sunday on Louisiana and Texas, after a possible sighting at a bus station.

Tips came in saying that Laurean was seen at a Shreveport, Louisiana, station Saturday night, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said. The bus Laurean was possibly riding was headed to Texas, but police don't know if he continued on that route, he said.

Brown has said murder victim Maria Lauterbach purchased a bus ticket to El Paso, Texas, around the time of her disappearance, but said Sunday authorities are not in possession of the ticket. Shreveport is roughly 950 miles southwest of Jacksonville, and is about two dozen miles from the Texas state line and more than 800 miles east of El Paso.

Shreveport police Chief Henry Whitehorn Sr. told The Associated Press said his department is working with the U.S. Marshal's Service and other law enforcement agencies to locate Laurean.

"We don't know if he is still in the area," Whitehorn said. "We believe it may have just been a pass through."

The FBI said Sunday that Laurean was also wanted on a federal warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Bureau spokesman Newsom Summerlin said that while investigators don't have any reason to believe he's fled the country, that remains a possibility.

Along with the FBI, Brown said federal Marshals, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are hunting for Laurean.

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[Emochi0127]

Im currently living here and my dad is a policeman in onslow and to this day it disgusts me to see a fellow marine doing this too innocent people, they are the ones that are supposed 2 help us, not kill us

[Emochi0127]

Im currently living here and my dad is a policeman in onslow and to this day it disgusts me to see marines doing this too innocent people, they are the ones that are supposed 2 help us, not kill us

[cheer496]

my best friend is maria's cousin...its so sad cuz my friend just starts cryin in random times

[MysticKoolaid]

The only other person I could see getting away with this would be his wife, but then why is he running? (I'll ignore your second statement, for both our own good...)

[MysticKoolaid]

I don't believe there should be two counts of murder against someone for the murder of what is essentially one entity (i.e. a pregnant woman). This is irregardless of her own choice, and one's own emotional state over this crime. Maybe my "pro-choice" bit was an unintentional red herring, and maybe you don't have a political agenda, but I still think that changing the law is absurd. (By the way, I still think that Laurean should've been an abortion).

[malee74]

U idiot. The murder already took place, and it was cruel and heinous, NOT SOMEBODY's CHOICE, and the mother had already chosen to keep her baby anyway. You ignoramus! We are talking about justice for the soon to be born child.!!!

[MysticKoolaid]

Actually, people like Laurean are partially the reason I'm pro-choice, so...

[MysticKoolaid]

Um, they found her burnt remains in a firepit in his backyard, and bloodstains in his house... I'm hoping you decided to NOT read about this story before posting about it.