Investigators say digital records helped trace the hours around Martina Lundy’s disappearance.
LAKE CITY, Fla. — A voicemail left at 2:23 a.m. and vehicle data recorded hours later are now central pieces of a first-degree murder case against a Florida man accused of killing his girlfriend.
Aaron Hokanson, 60, is charged in the death of Martina Lundy, 61, who disappeared from Lake City in May 2024 and has not been found. Prosecutors say Hokanson killed Lundy after she threatened to report him for allegedly viewing child sexual abuse images. The case is now built around a narrow timeline, recorded confrontations, deleted digital activity, alleged false texts and family members who say Lundy did not leave voluntarily.
The key day, according to investigators, began before sunrise on May 30, 2024. Lundy left a voicemail for her daughter at 2:23 a.m. Police said the recording captured Lundy confronting Hokanson about his sexuality. At 7:22 a.m., data showed Hokanson started his vehicle. Authorities have not publicly filled every gap between those two points, but the sworn complaint describes the period as the window in which investigators believe Lundy was killed. Her body has not been recovered, and officials have not publicly identified a cause of death.
Phone evidence also appears in what investigators say happened after Lundy vanished. Police said Lundy’s phone last pinged at the home she shared with Hokanson on SW Carpenter Road. Prosecutors also allege that strange messages were later sent from her phone to make relatives believe she had left for a few days. One message said she was going away and needed to get away from people. Authorities say those words were part of an effort to mislead family and police. Hokanson has claimed Lundy “took off” on her own, according to investigators.
That claim did not match what relatives said they knew about Lundy. She had plans to attend a wedding with her granddaughter that weekend. On May 31, the granddaughter came to the Carpenter Road home to pick up a dress and found Lundy gone. Hokanson told her Lundy had left after being upset about a late-night call from her daughter, according to the sworn complaint. The family later told investigators that Lundy would not have left without her phone, without contact and without the two dogs she took with her wherever she went.
The granddaughter reported Lundy missing on June 4, 2024, after the silence continued. Investigators said Hokanson told family members he had filed a missing person report, but police said he had not. That alleged false statement now sits alongside the disputed texts as part of the state’s theory that Hokanson staged a voluntary disappearance. Assistant State Attorney Sean Crisafulli said Lundy’s routine did not fit that account. “She is not coming home,” Crisafulli said, adding that Lundy had not abandoned her daughter, granddaughter, dogs or tenants.
The digital timeline stretches back before the disappearance. Investigators said Lundy had recorded confrontations with Hokanson in the months before she vanished. The couple had dated for about two years and lived together, but the relationship had become volatile, according to the complaint. During a March 2024 trip to the Florida Keys, Lundy suggested Hokanson go to a gay bar. He refused and denied being gay, investigators said. The conflict continued after they returned to North Florida, and Lundy’s recordings later became part of the case file.
Police said Lundy told her brother shortly before she disappeared that she had recorded Hokanson admitting to watching child sexual abuse images “at least 100 times.” Investigators wrote that Hokanson said he had been molested by his mother’s boyfriend as a child. Lundy told him that did not excuse watching child pornography, police said. The complaint says she also told Hokanson he would never be around children and that she was going to tell his daughter. Later, according to investigators, she said she planned to have him arrested by the end of the week.
Authorities say Hokanson then took steps that showed fear of exposure. The sworn complaint says he destroyed his cellphone and laptop and deleted search history. WCJB reported that the complaint also described deleted searches related to pornography and pills. Prosecutors have not publicly announced separate charges tied to the alleged images. In the murder case, the alleged destroyed devices and deleted searches are being used to support the claim that Hokanson had a motive to stop Lundy and knew the allegations could put him in legal danger.
Other records became part of the timeline after investigators moved beyond the phone. Police pointed to $73,000 that remained in a bank safe-deposit box and said the money supported the view that Lundy had not planned to disappear. Rent collection also mattered. Crisafulli said Lundy did not abandon the tenants whose rent she collected “like clockwork.” The detail places a practical duty beside the phone data. Prosecutors are arguing that Lundy’s life left traces that should have continued if she had left by choice, but those traces stopped.
The defense has focused on the limits of the state’s proof. During a pretrial release request, Hokanson’s attorneys argued that the case was circumstantial and that he had ties to the community. They sought to have him released from jail before trial. A judge denied that request after the 26-page sworn complaint was unsealed. Hokanson was first charged with second-degree murder, but a grand jury later indicted him on first-degree murder, increasing the burden on prosecutors to prove the killing was intentional and premeditated.
The next phase of the case is likely to test each digital record. Prosecutors may seek to introduce the voicemail, phone ping data, vehicle start data, alleged messages, deleted search evidence and recordings of earlier confrontations. Defense attorneys may challenge how the data was collected, what it proves and whether it can support a murder conviction without a body. The court will also have to address what jurors may hear about the alleged child sexual abuse material, because prosecutors describe it as motive but have not announced separate charges tied to it.
For now, the case turns on a timeline that begins with Lundy’s own voice and ends with a silence her family said made no sense. Prosecutors say that silence was created by Hokanson. His defense says the state has not produced direct proof of death or a body. The unanswered question of where Lundy is remains at the center of both the criminal case and her family’s search for finality.
Aaron Hokanson is still held without bond in Columbia County. The court has not publicly set a trial date, and Lundy’s remains have not been recovered.
Author note: Last updated April 29, 2026.