Wichita ? A pregnant 16-year-old girl believed to be traveling with the suspect sought in the death of a Butler County college student sent a text message to her mother days after the couple fled, according to a published report.

“The message said she had a lot to tell me, but I never got the chance to hear what it was,” Sandy Martens told The Hays Daily News for their Friday editions.

Martens told her story a day after authorities found a body about 50 miles east of El Dorado matching the description of Emily Sander, a missing Butler Community College student who lived a secret life as an Internet porn performer. Sander was last seen alive leaving an El Dorado bar with Israel Mireles, 24, on Nov. 23.

The body was found about 50 miles east of El Dorado as searchers retraced the route they believed Mireles took to pick up his 16-year-old girlfriend, Victoria Martens, in Baxter Springs, where the Martens family had spent the Thanksgiving holiday.

“I sympathize with Emily and her parents. I am sorry for their loss,” Martens said. “But my daughter is still out there. She’s my baby, and I want her home.”

Mireles moved to El Dorado from Hays and was joined there by Victoria two months ago. Martens, an employee at the Hays Daily News, told the paper all she wants to do is rub the belly of her pregnant daughter.

“She loves to have her tummy rubbed,” Martens said. “She talks constantly about this baby. She’s so anxious to be a mother right now.”

Martens said Mireles seemed like a decent guy who always took care of her daughter, emotionally, physically and financially. The couple had initially planned to go to Vernon to see Mireles’ grandmother, who has cancer and was not expected to live past this week.

El Dorado police confirmed Friday that the pregnant teen had sent a text message to her mother Sunday, but said there have been no new developments in the case.

“It has been quiet,” detective Chad Young said. “We are doing what we can do to find people.”

Victoria is seven months pregnant with a girl she and Mireles have named Isabelle Marie, Martens said.

Martens said her daughter called Saturday night about an hour after she and Mireles left Baxter Springs.

“She called me to let me know her boyfriend had an altercation in a hotel room with a guy that tried to rob him, and there was blood in the hotel room and that the police might call to ask me questions,” Martens said.

Police have confirmed a large amount of blood was found in the hotel room, prompting the search for Sander that resulted in the discovery of the body in El Dorado.

Martens said she has not heard from her daughter since Sunday’s text message.

“I don’t feel she’s in intentional danger, but I do believe that the intensity of the situation could endanger her and the baby,” Martens said.

Brian Withrow, a criminal justice professor at Wichita State University, said Friday predicting how much danger the girl was in would depend on the couple’s relationship.

“If that relationship was stormy, then she could be in substantial danger,” he said. “But if that relationship has been good, she will probably be OK.”