A jury started hearing testimony Tuesday about the June 2018 disappearance of a Houston mother and paralegal whom authorities believe was killed and dismembered with a chain saw.
Her body was never found but is believed to have been dumped into a bayou, according to prosecutors.
The murder trial of Erik Arceneaux, 53, in the 178th District Court comes eight years following Maria Jimenez-Rodriguez’s disappearance and three years after his arrest in her killing. He was charged in August 2019, but vanished after police interviewed him. He was arrested in September 2023…