"We're still waiting for reports and more evidence from the prosecutor's office. Martin's attorney, Jim Mequio, said the allegations should not justify the new charges, ABD 13 reported. His girlfriend’s identity was not revealed and it is not clear if she had any knowledge of his alleged criminal activity.
He was arrested at his girlfriend’s home in Big Rapids earlier last week. McKay also denied bond for Martin, who is being held at the Van Buren County Jail. ‘There is probable cause to believe that the defendant intentionally struck the victim with the vehicle, took her body engaged in sexual acts with the body,’ he said. "That is a very different set of facts," Van Buren County District Court Judge Michael McKay said during Wednesday’s arraignment, where he confirmed the establishment of probably cause for the open murder charge. Van Buren County Prosecuting Attorney Kirk Metzger said that the new allegations were ‘chilling.’ Martin and Rohrer’s DNA was also found on condoms recovered in Martin's vehicle and a trashcan near his home, detectives said. Martin allegedly moved Rohrer’s body after the hit-and-run, taking it about 26 miles southwest at the Three Rivers State Game Area Martin had been released on $300,000 bail since September, when he was charged with manslaughter with a motor vehicle, failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in death when at fault and concealing the death of an individual.ĭuring his most recent hearing, detectives revealed that Martin’s search history showed he was looking up pornography involving dead or unconscious women immediately after Rohrer was reported missing. Police alleged that Martin took the body to the second location, which is a large public park with hundreds of acres of trees and wooded sections, and engaged in sexual acts with it there. Martin led police to Rohrer’s body, about 25 miles southwest at the Three Rivers State Game Area. He was using the same car, a 2013 Ford F-150, when law enforcement confronted him and detectives said it had ‘severe’ front-end damage. Martin allegedly struck Rohrer dead with his car and took some of her belongings and cell phone, which police used to track him down the following day at a Walmart parking lot in Oshtemo Township. 'Upon looking around the area where she normally walks, one of the deputies found some items that belonged to her and skid marks and it was quite obviously she’d been hit by a vehicle,' Van Buren County Sheriff Dan Abbott said in September. Rohrer was reported missing by family members after she went on a daily walk outside the Oak Shores Campground and didn’t return.