An Oklahoma man is accused of killing his wife less than a month after getting married, according to police.
The search for missing Tulsa woman Cassidy Ritchie , 39, came to an end on Jan. 28, seven days after her parents and children last saw her alive, McClatchy News previously reported.
Investigators found her SUV abandoned along U.S. Highway 412 and, after getting a warrant to search inside, they found Ritchie dead, “hidden in a very small space and covered with clothing and boxes,” Tulsa police said in a Jan. 29 news release.
Now her husband, Chris Morland, is charged with murder , police said.
Morland had already been taken into custody before the discovery of Ritchie’s body due to unrelated warrants filed in Texas, police said, but detectives spoke with him during the search for his wife and he was uncooperative.
“Morland told multiple stories, and multiple versions of those stories,” police said. “Morland would not come off any of his stories and maintained that she was just somewhere visiting a friend.”