Pregnant Marine Missing From Camp Lejeune

My God, not again.

(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 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.

The Marine's car was found Monday at Jacksonville's bus station, Brown told the Daily News, and her cell phone had been found at Camp Lejeune's front gate on December 20. (H/T - CNN)

I'm getting that feeling again, and that's not a good sign. This will soon become a homicide investigation; you heard it here first. Please keep Maria and her unborn baby in your prayers.

UPDATE: Lauterbach's mother is claiming that Maria may have left on her own after receiving a phone call. Oh, Mommie Dearest also said this:

The young woman's mother, Mary Lauterbach, told authorities that her daughter has a history of being a "compulsive liar," a police report states. (H/T - CNN)

Ouch.

2ND UPDATE: She's dead. I hate it when I'm right.

JACKSONVILLE, North Carolina (CNN) -- Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, the pregnant Marine who was missing from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is dead, the Onslow County sheriff said Friday.

The suspect in the case is Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean, 21, a fellow Marine whom Lauterbach had accused of raping her, Sheriff Ed Brown said at a news conference Friday.

Authorities were "searching the area for the grave that could be in and around the place where she was murdered," Brown said. He quickly said he wasn't ready to call her death murder.

"I am not calling it murder because the story has got some twists and turns," he said. (CNN)

I wonder is her mother is regretting that "compulsive liar" comment now?