Hernandez Charged in Orlando Killing

Second-degree murder is the charge on the complaint, not a finding about how Eugenio Martinez died. What she told detectives, that he had a knife and was choking her, is her account of a fight, and self-defense is for a jury if the state can prove a killing. She is being held without bond.

Isidra Bautista Hernandez was arrested Wednesday night, Nov. 11, and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Eugenio Martinez, 32. She is being held without bond.

On Monday morning, maintenance workers at Pacifico Place Apartments on Shenandoah Way found a heavy trash bag covered in flies near a trash compactor. The criminal complaint says officers found a human arm inside, that bloody mail in the compactor carried an address for the apartment Hernandez shared with Martinez, and that a child told a babysitter, "Mama cut papa." Martinez was the man in the bag.

Hernandez first told detectives that Martinez had not come home on Saturday, Nov. 7. She later described a fight in which he had a knife and was choking her. She said she got the knife away and made a slashing motion. She told them she was afraid to call police, then called 911 twice in the hope that someone would find him by the dumpster.

All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.