A Union County New Jersey grand jury has indicted a  man on charges that he murdered his ex-girlfriend and kidnapped their child in July.  Tyler Rios, 27, is accused of strangling Yasemin Uyar, 24, in her Rahway apartment on July 8, then taking their 2-year-old son and driving more than 700 miles to Tennessee with Uyar’s body in the back of his car.

He allegedly disposed of the body at a campsite near Monterey, Tennessee.  An Amber alert was issued for the abducted child after he wasn’t dropped off at daycare on July 9 and Uyar didn’t arrive for work.

Police were able to track down Rios in Tennessee after he called two people following the killing. He phoned a relative on July 9 and said he had a dead body in his car. In the other call, he allegedly admitted killing Uyar.

The child was found unharmed in a Monterey, Tennessee, motel on July 10 and Rios was arrested without incident.  Rios told them where to find the body, which was located 2,300 feet away from the motel in a duffel bag.  An autopsy determined she died of strangulation and blunt force trauma.  At the time of her death, Uyar had a restraining order against Rios.

The grand jury indicted Rios on first-degree charges of murder and kidnapping, along with counts of desecrating human remains, endangering the welfare of a child, contempt by violating a domestic violence restraining order and theft.