Man pleads not guilty to charges he killed his wife

GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO - The man accused of killing his wife and dumping her body in landfill pleaded innocent Wednesday to a first-degree murder charge. <br> <br> Michael Blagg, 39, walked into the Mesa County courtroom after posting $500,000 bond late Tuesday. A trial was set to begin Oct. 6. <br> <br> Blagg reported his wife Jennifer and 6-year-old daughter Abby missing on Nov. 13, 2001, after he said he returned home from work and found a large pool of blood in the couple&#39;s bedroom. <br> <br> Jennifer&#39;s body was found in the Mesa County landfill in June and Blagg was arrested at his mother&#39;s house in Warner Robins, Ga., 120 miles southeast of Atlanta. <br> <br> Abby remains missing and is presumed dead. <br> <br> ``That&#39;s probably the one thing about the case that haunts the investigators the most is the thought that she might be out there and she just might never be recovered,&#39;&#39; Mesa County Sheriff Riecke Claussen told KUSA-TV. <br> <br> Motion hearings were scheduled for May. <br> <br> ``We&#39;ll be filing motions asking the judge to take certain action concerning evidence in the case,&#39;&#39; Blagg&#39;s attorney, David Eisner, told KCNC-TV. <br> <br> Blagg must live in Colorado or Georgia, where his mother lives. <br> <br> Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty against Blagg.