( CNN ) -- The 30-year-old suburban Chicago husband being sought in the stabbing death of his new bride told an associate he was heading to Mexico , where his parents live , according to an FBI affidavit released Friday . Charged with first-degree murder , Arnoldo Jimenez of Burbank , Illinois , was tracked using his phone in southern Illinois near Memphis , Tennessee , through Arkansas to Houston and then to Hidalgo , Texas , near the Mexican border at 10:45 p.m. Sunday , the same day police found his new bride murdered in her home , the affidavit said . On Sunday , Jimenez told his sister by phone that he and Estrella Carrera , 26 , `` had a bad fight , and he left her bleeding , '' FBI Special Agent R. Brian Wentz said in an affidavit . Jimenez also told `` a close associate '' that he was leaving Illinois and `` if questioned by law enforcement , the associate should tell law enforcement he went to Mexico , '' Wentz said in the affidavit , filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago . The Cook County State 's Attorney 's Office will extradite Jimenez upon his arrest , the FBI said . The FBI has joined the search for Jimenez , now the subject of an international manhunt , and a federal warrant charging Jimenez with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued Friday in U.S. District in Chicago , said FBI Special Agent Ross Rice . Jimenez , born in Texas , still owns property in Pharr , Texas , and also has relatives in North Carolina , the FBI affidavit said . Carrera , found stabbed to death in her bathtub , was still in the sequined cocktail dress she wore to her wedding reception , police said . Jimenez and Carrera were married May 11 at Chicago City Hall , according to authorities . Carrera 's cousin Sandy Lopez told CNN affiliate WBBM that the couple had been together for three years . They celebrated their union with family and friends with dinner and a limo ride to at least one nightclub on the city 's north side , according to police . The newlyweds were dropped off about 4 a.m. Saturday at their condominium in a three-story brick building , police said . `` She was happy . She was fine . Did nothing out of the ordinary at all , '' Lopez told WBBM . About 36 hours later , police found Carrera 's body after responding to a call from a family member concerned that there might be something wrong . Carrera had failed to pick up her two children , ages 2 and 8 , as scheduled the day before , police said . There were no signs of forced entry at her home , police said . `` It is important to know that this appears to be an isolated incident stemming from a domestic situation and the investigation is continuing , '' police said this week . Lopez told WBBM she had `` no idea why somebody would do this to her . '' The 6-foot , 225-pound Jimenez was last seen driving a black 2006 Maserati . CNN 's Moni Basu and Rich Porter contributed to this report .
Arnoldo Jimenez told an associate he was going to Mexico , FBI says . FBI tracks phone use from Illinois to Texas near the Mexican border . He told his sister that he and his new bride had `` a bad fight , '' and he left her bleeding . Bride Estrella Carrera , 26 , was found stabbed to death in a cocktail dress in the bathtub .