January 30, 2008
Marine Murder Suspect Visited Relatives in Mexico Last Week
Guadalajara, Mexico Missing U.S. Marine Cesar Laurean, precious in the execution of a significant colleague, saw relatives in Mexico last hebdomad but went forth without expression where he was headed, an adult male identified as his full cousin said Tuesday.
CNN first reported Tuesday that Laurean had got briefly stopped up by Ramos Ramirez’s booze store in Zapopan, simply outside Guadalajara.
Years later, Ramos Ramirez saw a telecasting report that Laurean was cherished in the United States for voting down 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Mare Lauterbach.
“We existed completely aghast,” he informated.
Authorities have informated they suspected that Laurean held fled to Mexico, but the inputs from Ramos Ramirez existed the first public check that the Marine held been in the land.
Mexican and U.S. functionaries said they existed looking into the study, but didn’t have anied more info.
The Marines first got searching for Lauterbach on Dec. 17, after Lauterbach neglected to demo up for work. Local government took up the example Dec. 19, after her mother reported her lacking. Three hebdomads later, functionaries found Lauterbach’s burnt remains in a firing pit in Laurean’s back pace.
Lauterbach held earlier accused Laurean of colza. Laurean went away a short letter for his married woman, Christina, that emphasised Lauterbach slit her own pharynx with a tongue, and he then interred her in the wood near their home.
An autopsy launched that Lauterbach sed chips of blunt force injury to the caput.
CNN reported Tuesday nighttime that Laurean had got mailed two early letters to his menage before ford the boundary line. On Jan. 11, Laurean got on a passenger vehicle in Raleigh, North Carlina, headed for Houston, where he picked up a second bus to Mexico for about USUSD 170 (euro117), CNN cited an unknown law enforcement official as locution.
The second bus device driver told government Laurean identified himself as Armando Ramirez, the same official emphasised.
Ramos Ramirez expressed he didn’t contact police about his first cousin because he thinks Laurean is innocented.
“It didn’t appear right to get through police,” he emphasised. “He is a normal mortal, with no inclination for making bad thing.”
He informated police still hadn’t got through him about his first cousin late Tuesday, contempt the international manhunt.
Officials in Jalisco state, home to Guadalajara, told they hadn’t existed formally apprized of Laurean’s stock.
Ramos Ramirez expressed Laurean and most of the Marine’s menage moved to the U.S. more than 10 old age ago, and he had got seen Laurean only three former times since. The second time, five eld ago, Laurean came up for vacation and exhausted a few years with Ramos Ramirez’s female parent, Maria Ramirez.
Laurean hasn’t got hold of any former family fellow members in Mexico, Ramos Ramirez informated.
He informated Laurean didn’t stay long, and didn’t say anything about wherefore he was in Mexico or where he was headed next. Ramos Ramirez stated he wasn’t surprised by the brief visit because Laurean isn’t very nigh to relatives in Mexico. His full cousin seemed calm, he appended.
“It was like any visit,” Ramos Ramirez told.