Erica Crippen Crosby

Nearly one year after Mount Laurel woman Erica Crippen went missing, her husband has admitted to choking the 26-year-old mother to death on New Years Eve last year and dumping her body in a rural area of Maryland.

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey man has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the death of his wife, whose body was found in Maryland by investigators using a GPS device in his vehicle.

Police found the body of a missing South Jersey woman in a Maryland pine grove by using GPS in her car to trace her husband's travels to the area.

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) -- Sporting an orange jumpsuit and a beard, Kyle Crosby was called a flight risk and a drug addict by prosecutors Tuesday as they accused him of killing his wife, who's been missing since New Year's Eve.