The Eyrie

ORLANDO, FL — An Orlando woman has been charged with second-degree murder after police said a 3-year-old child’s statement to a babysitter helped lead investigators to a man’s body at an apartment complex dumpster.

Investigators identified the victim as 32-year-old Eugenio Martinez. Police said his body was found in a heavy black trash bag near the Pacifico Place Apartments on Shenandoah Way, off Semoran Boulevard, after maintenance workers noticed the bag covered in flies.

According to a criminal complaint, officers later found a human arm inside the bag and began tracing evidence back to the apartment where Isidra Hernandez lived with Martinez and her two young children.

Maintenance workers found a bag filled with disturbing evidence

Police were called to the complex Monday morning after workers came across the bag near a dumpster. The complaint says the bag was heavy and black, and that flies were visible on it when it was discovered.

Officers say the first major clue came when they opened the bag and found a human arm. That discovery set off a homicide investigation that quickly spread through the apartment complex and into Hernandez’s home.

Investigators also found bloody mail in the trash compactor, according to the complaint. The address on that mail allegedly pointed them to the apartment linked to Hernandez and Martinez.

Child's words reportedly pointed detectives toward the apartment

Police said a woman approached officers at the scene and told them she had been babysitting Hernandez’s children. While there, the babysitter said the 3-year-old girl began crying and told her, “Mama cut Papa.”

That statement became a central part of the investigation, according to the complaint. Detectives used it along with the bloody mail and the location of the trash bag to focus on the family’s apartment.

The victim was later described in the complaint as being tied with an orange extension cord and wrapped in three black trash bags and a dark blue laundry bag.

Hernandez was detained when she returned home from work

Police said Hernandez was detained after she came back from work. At first, investigators say she told them she had not seen Martinez since Saturday and did not know where he was.

Detectives later said she changed her account. According to the complaint, Hernandez admitted the two had argued and said Martinez had a knife and began choking her during the confrontation.

She told police she took the knife away and made a slashing motion, the complaint states. Investigators have not publicly detailed what injuries Martinez suffered beyond the discovery of his remains.

Complaint says Hernandez later called 911 hoping someone would find him

The criminal complaint says Hernandez did not initially contact law enforcement because she was afraid. But it also states that she later placed two calls to 911 in hopes that someone would find Martinez near the dumpster.

That detail adds another layer to the timeline investigators are piecing together, including what happened inside the apartment and when Martinez was moved to the trash area.

Police have not said how long Martinez had been dead before he was found, and the complaint released so far does not describe any additional suspects.

Second-degree murder charge brings Hernandez into custody without bond

Hernandez was arrested Wednesday night, two days after the body was discovered. She is now facing a second-degree murder charge and is being held without bond.

The case remains under investigation as detectives work through the physical evidence, the child’s statement, and Hernandez’s account of a fight that allegedly turned deadly. The criminal complaint is the main public document outlining the state’s case at this stage.

For now, police say the apartment complex discovery, the blood evidence, and the toddler’s words together led them from a trash bag by a dumpster to a homicide arrest.