A 44-year-old machinist was charged Thursday with murdering his pregnant girlfriend five years ago, even though her body still remains missing.
When the charge was filed Miguel Antonio Martinez was already in the Harris County Jail on $500,000 bail for another felony charge of illegal weapons possession. Authorities had confiscated several handmade gun silencers from his southwest Houston home.
Martinez told investigators he made the silencers for his "own personal use."
His girlfriend, Senovia Medina, was 37 and three months pregnant when she disappeared after dropping off food at her mother's Houston home Jan. 5, 2006.
Without her body, Martinez's lawyer believes investigators will need more evidence to prove murder.
"And if a killing did occur it was self-defense as my client has stated," said his lawyer, Emily Detoto.
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