Wayland Patch 7/8/11: Officials Decline to Discuss What Evidence They Collected. Teams of law enforcement officials Friday combed marshy areas of Wayland near the Sudbury line, searching for evidence related to the murder of Lauren Astley, 18, whose body was found on Water Row Monday morning. According to WBZ’s Karen Anderson, by the end of the day investigators had collected at least two bags of evidence. Earlier scanner reports indicated a weapon had been found, but officials are neither discussing what was discovered nor confirming the scanner reports.

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Wayland Town Crier 7/8/11: Police look for more evidence on Water Row Road in Wayland. Police officers from the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council are on Rte. 27 and Water Row Road doing a search in connection to Sunday's murder of Lauren Astley. Police Chief Robert Irving said it was "an evidentiary search,'' but would not say if investigators are looking for anything in particular. Several items were found and marked with orange ribbons and photographed by state police.

MyFoxBoston 7/7/11: Co-workers: Wayland teen was frustrated on night of murder. Lauren’s former co-workers told Fox 25 the suspect was adamant about meeting up with his former sweetheart the night of the murder. Her co-workers remember an annoyed Lauren Astley leaving work that night. They said she was frustrated that her ex-boyfriend lit up her cell phone with phone calls and texts. The next day her colleagues were at a loss for words after learning Lauren was murdered just hours after leaving work.

Boston Herald 7/7/11: Boss: Wayland victim ‘fearful’ of suspect. Murdered Wayland teen Lauren Astley was bothered by repeated phone calls and text messages from her jilted ex-boyfriend in the hours before authorities say he strangled her with a bungee cord, cut her throat and dumped her in a marsh, her employers told the Herald yesterday. Astley, 18, complained to co-workers Sunday that ex-boyfriend Nathaniel Fujita, 18, was lighting up her cell phone with numerous calls and texts as she worked at Shop344, a trendy boutique for young women at Natick Collection. Store manager Maeghen Reineke, 26, said Fujita wanted to come to the store and speak to her there.

NECN 7/6/11: Friends remember Wayland, Mass. teen. "She loved being with the kids and all the kids loved her as a councilor," said friend and former co-worker, Alex Steinroeder. Alex Steinroeder worked with the recent Wayland High grad at Wayland's Longfellow Cub, and said to know Lauren Astley was to love her. "She was really nice. Just made everyone a lot happier. She was really fun to be around. She was really funny person," said Steinroeder. But Lauren's friends admit she did have issues with her on and off again boyfriend, and now her accused killer Nathaniel Fujita. "I don't think anyone was ever really concerned that something would happen. I Knew that they were kind of a turbulent couple, like one day they would be really good and the next day they would be fighting," said friend and co-worker, Ailsa McAfee.

NECN.com 7/6/11: Investigators trying to determine motive in Wayland murder (with video). Investigators have found a wealth of physical evidence in the Wayland murder case, but are looking for more to figure out what happened that triggered Nathaniel Fujita to murder Lauren Astley, his ex-girlfriend.

WBUR 7/6/11: Wayland Community Shocked After Teen’s Murder (with audio). About 20 miles west of Boston, another young person has lost their life to violence. Lauren Astley,18, was found dead in her hometown of Wayland on Monday. Prosecutors say it is a case of teen dating violence. Like a lot of people her age, Lauren Astley had a spark for life. She volunteered in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was about to go away to college in the fall and had a job at the Natick Mall. And she had a longtime boyfriend with whom she had recently broken up with.

State Prosecutor Lisa McGovern said Astley phoned Nathaniel Fujita, her former boyfriend, when she was at work on Sunday. "Those phone calls occurred close to the time that she left work, approximately 6:30 in the afternoon. After that point, that evening, Lauren Astley did not return home," McGovern said. "If it was an outside person that came in and did this, it would be different. When you see a relationship situation like this go bad, it’s not like a perpetrator that came in from somewhere else."  Later that night the police found Astley’s Jeep parked at the town beach, the windows down, her purse and computer on the front seat. The next morning her body was discovered submerged in a marsh, with a severe wound on the neck. 

Audio report.