Pregnant Marine missing from Camp Lejeune

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Maria Frances Lauterbach, who is eight months pregnant, was last heard from on Dec. 14, when she spoke to her mother by telephone, according to sheriff’s officials in Onslow County, N.C. The phone was found near the main gate at Camp Lejeune on Dec. 20.


Pregnant Marine missing from Camp Lejeune
By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 17:18:29 EST

Authorities are looking for a 20-year-old pregnant Marine who has been missing from her post at Camp Lejeune, N.C., for more than three weeks.

Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach was a witness to an incident that occurred on base and was due to testify about it, according to sheriff’s officials in Onslow County, N.C. Sheriff’s and Marine Corps officials declined to provide any more details regarding the incident for which Lauterbach was scheduled to testify.

She is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and is eight months pregnant.

Lauterbach was last heard from on Dec. 14, when she spoke to her mother by telephone, sheriff’s officials said. Several days later, her mother, Mary Lauterbach, of Dayton, contacted the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department to file a missing persons report. The mother was “suspicious that something bad may have happened to her daughter,” sheriff’s officials said in a prepared statement.

Investigators found her cell phone discarded near the main gate at Camp Lejeune on Dec. 20. No calls have been made on the phone since Dec. 14, sheriff’s officials said.


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