Police: Suspect in slain N.C. Marine case may be headed to Texas

(AP) - The nationwide manhunt for a Marine wanted in a brutal slaying is focusing on Louisiana and Texas after he was spotted at a bus station.

Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said witnesses said they saw Marine Cpl. Cesar Armando Laurean at a Shreveport, La., station Saturday night. Brown said the bus Laurean was riding was headed to Texas, but police don't know if he continued on that route.

Brown cautions that his detectives are still working to confirm the sightings, backing away from earlier assurances that the witness accounts were genuine. But he was confident Laurean would soon be in custody.

On Saturday, authorities said they recovered what they believe to be the burned remains of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child from a fire pit in Laurean's backyard, where they suspect he burned and buried her body.

That same day, state authorities issued an arrest warrant on murder charges for Laurean.