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At least one relative told reporters last week that Cpl. Cesar Laurean visited family members in the area of Guadalajara, Mexico, this month, but left without saying where he was headed.
A U.S. Embassy official, who was not authorized to give a name and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mexican officials had issued a warrant for Laurean's arrest for extradition.
The remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, were found with those of her fetus earlier this month in a fire pit in Laurean's back yard in Jacksonville, N.C. Lauterbach, who had once accused Laurean of rape, had been missing since mid-December. Military investigators are still working to identify the father of Lauterbach's unborn child, Hudson said.
Laurean fled Jacksonville in early January, leaving a note for his wife, Christina, that said Lauterbach slit her own throat with a knife, and he then buried her in the woods near their home. Detectives have rejected that claim, and an autopsy found that Lauterbach died of blunt force trauma to the head.
[Associated
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