A Massachusetts woman was found dead near a truck stop in Georgia last month, and a truck driver, also from Massachusetts, was arrested in Indiana on murder charges, officials said Tuesday.
Investigators found that Jessica Goodrich, a 46-year-old from Worcester, had been a passenger in Jason Michael Palmer's long-distance truck, according to a news release from the Camden County Sheriff's Office.
Goodrich's body was found Oct. 8 in the woods off a service road near Roadie's Chevron Truck Stop in Woodbine, Georgia, officials said.
Investigators found that Palmer, a 47-year-old from Littleton, was at an Indiana truck stop, and notified the U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement, who detained the driver until investigators from Camden County could arrive, officials said. They arrested Palmer on charges of murder, aggravated assault and concealing a death.
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It wasn't immediately clear if Palmer had an attorney who could speak to the charges. He was being extradited from Wayne County, Indiana, to Camden County, according to the sheriff's office.
Deputies didn't elaborate on the relationship between Goodrich and Palmer, but Goodrich's sister told News4JAX that the pair were in an on-again, off-again relationship, which she later confirmed to NBC10 Boston.
When Goodrich told her sister, Pamela Shays, she was talking to Palmer again, Shays said, "I turned around and said, 'What are you thinking?'"
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Woodbine is just off Interstate 95, several miles north of Georgia's border with Florida.
