A Florida man who allegedly told investigators his missing girlfriend might have been taken by federal immigration officials is now accused of the woman's murder .

Saul Garcia Gonzalez, 40, is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of 37-year-old Nerida Martel, whose body was found on Oct. 11 in a canal around three blocks from where the couple lived. She had been shot in the head.

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"[The victim] had been reported missing by the subject days before she was found," Miami-Dade police said in a statement on Thursday. "Through investigative means MDSO Homicide Bureau detectives were able to determine that the victim had been murdered by [Gonzal

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