Pregnant Marine missing from North Carolina base

[yardwork]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A search is under way for a pregnant 20-year-old Marine who has been missing from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, since December 14.

Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach was eight months pregnant when she went missing on December 14.

Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach could give birth at any time, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown told the Jacksonville, North Carolina, Daily News on Monday.

The sheriff's department said Lauterbach's mother said that her daughter, of Montgomery, Ohio, had witnessed an incident at Camp Lejeune and was to testify about it.

Sheriff's department officials said evidence causes them to be concerned about Lauterbach's disappearance, WITN reported.

Her mother reported her missing on December 19, and told the sheriff's department "that she was very suspicious that something bad may have happened to her daughter," the department said in a news release.

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Lauterbach is a personnel clerk assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, the Marine Corps said. She joined the service on June 6, 2006.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/09/missing.marine/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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She witnessed an incident at Camp Lejeune and was to testify about it, and then she disappeared.

[PDJane]

1. I think I have a very bad feeling about the

fate of this young woman........

[Bobbieo]

3. It has been almost three weeks since she has been missing.

She's pregnant and due any time. And it is just now it being reported. What is going on here?

[madinmaryland]

4. I am assuming it was being handled by the base patrol,

who would not release any information. It appears the mother went to the Sheriff/police after nothing happened with the base patrol.

[yardwork]

2. She witnessed an incident at the base and was going to testify.

I've seen another thread dismissing this as another media hype. This is different. She was going to testify about something she witnessed at Camp LeJeune, and then she disappeared.

[kimmylavin]

5. They're not even trying anymore.

I guess this administration figures that if it kills/covers up/destroys, they'll get into less trouble than they would if the actual truth came out.

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[gratuitous]

7. This is surely odd

Why aren't the major media in hyperdrive over an attractive missing white woman? Or does her involvement in a military investigation somehow put the damper on their usual frenzy?

[Thor_MN]

8. I would expect Nancy Grace to be flaring her nostrils over this

but maybe the extra workload with newborns is dampening her outrage at what is the juciest story of the week.

[pleah]

9. What was she supposed to testify about?