Construction worker Robert Owens charged with killing missing pregnant Food Network star and her husband after renovating their North Carolina home

A man has been accused of killing a Food Network star and her husband.

Cristie Codd and her husband Joseph of Leicester, North Carolina, were reported missing on Sunday, and now police have charged Robert Jason Owens with two counts of first degree murder, one count of murder of an unbo child, breaking and entering, and larceny after breaking and entering.

Cristie, who was a competitor on the eighth season of the show Food Network Star, was five months pregnant.

Fox Carolina reports that authorities believe Christie, 38, and Joseph, 45, were killed on Thursday, and that Owens retued to the couple's home on Sunday and ran off with their 'laptop computer, jewelry and a Glock handgun'

On Tuesday, Robert Jason Owens (above) was charged with killing the couple and stealing jewelry, a computer and a Glock from their home

Police have yet to comment on how the couple were killed as their bodies have not yet been discovered.

Their cars and two dogs were found inside their home.

Owens, who is being held without bond, appeared in court on Tuesday where he requested an attoey and his next hearing was scheduled for April.

He had also been a suspect in the disappearance of 18-year-old Zeb Quinn in January 200, a case that remains unsolved.

The couple had been using Owens, who owns a construction company, to do some work at their home.

They were both set to leave for work on Sunday, with Cristie catering on a movie set in Louisiana and Joseph heading off to Los Angeles to work as a key grip on a production. 

James Fisher, a member of a local band that played the Codds' wedding last September, said the two were a 'beautiful couple' 

He told the Citizen-Times of Joesph; 'I know he believed in giving people second chances, and he'd hired people out there who'd been in prison.'

As for playing at their wedding, he said; 'He made sure we were taken care of. They brought us over a cooler of beer. Just a great couple.'

It is still unclear what Owens' motive was behind the alleged murder. 

Buncombe County District Attoey Todd Williams has said he has not yet decided if he will ask for the death penalty in this case.