A man accused of killing and then dismembering the body of a Texas mother with an electric chainsaw was ordered to be held on $1 million bond Tuesday after being on the run for five years.

Erik Arceneaux, 51, was first charged with murder in 2019 in the disappearance of 29-year-old Maria Jimenez-Rodriguez, who was last seen the morning of June 21, 2018, when she dropped off her daughter at her babysitters northeast Houston home on the way to work, investigators said.

Jimenez-Rodriguez, a paralegal at the Milledge Law Firm, never arrived at the office that day. A colleague later told police that she had received three texts on June 21 from Jimenez-Rodriguezs phone apologizing for her absence; the last text from her phone, sent around 6:19 p.m., said she was being followed by three men, according to a Houston Police Department homicide detectives probable cause affidavit obtained by HuffPost. Her body has never been found.