Authorities in Mexico caught up to a California man who allegedly tried to smuggle his partner's dead body across the border.

According to reporting by Los Angeles-based NBC affiliate KNBC , 44-year-old Erick Alcantar Almanza is behind bars in Mexico, where he fled after allegedly killing his longtime partner, Aracely Romero. KNBC reported that the couple's oldest son spoke to the station in an interview and said that Almanza allegedly confessed to the murder while on the road to the U.S.-Mexico border, with Romero's dead body next to him in the car's passenger seat.

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Almanza apparently spoke to several members of his family, who said that they last

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