Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach, just 20 years old was a United States Marine who disappeared from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on December 14, 2007. At the time of her disappearance, Lauterbach was eight months pregnant. She expected to face the rigors of marine life...but instead faced the most unthinkable tragedy from a fellow marine. Lauterbach’s body was found burned and buried in Cesar Laurean’s backyard and authorities revealed he had fled to Mexico. It would take months to locate him and for the State Department to get him back to the United States after making a deal to table the death penalty. In this episode, reporter Chelsea Donovan shares her experience covering this complex case with co-host Amanda Lamb. Together, along with an interview from the man who prosecuted Laurean, Dewey Hudson, they peel back the layers of exactly what happened in this high-profile case involving a man sworn to uphold the law of the land.

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Eric Miller and his wife Ann Miller married after a college romance, had a baby girl, and thriving careers. Eric was a promising pediatric AIDS Researcher at a major university. Ann was a chemist at a top tier pharmaceutical company. But Ann yearned for more. Her desire for money and men would lead her down a lethal path that ended in Eric’s death. It would be years before investigators could unravel the complex web of lies and startling physical evidence. This is a story of a deadly chemical romance, epic deceit, and a road for justice with many twists and turns. The murder weapon was arsenic. Someone put it in Eric’s beer, injected into his IV in the hospital, and mixed into his chicken and rice dinner. It took years, a suicide, intense scientific testing, and precise police work to finally catch and convict the killer. Join veteran television crime reporters, Amanda Lamb and Chelsea Donovan, as they peel back the curtain on this case that Amanda covered from the beginning and eventually wrote a book about. They speak to the prosecutor in charge of the case and the attorney who defended Ann’s lover. This case has been the subject of countless true crime documentaries, but you’ve never heard the story quite like this, from the people who were there…

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