Police have arrested a man in the murder of his wife more than five years after her body was found on Long Island, authorities said.
Joseph Jones, 33, was arrested Friday on a charge of second-degree murder, Suffolk County police said. He was due to be arraigned Monday.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Jones had a lawyer who could comment on his behalf.
His wife, Nicole Tessa, was 31 when she went missing in December 2010. A police search led to her body in a wooded area near the couple's North Patchogue home.
At the time, Jones acknowledged he and his wife had had a fight.
"We got into an argument," he said then, "but I left, and she left, and when I came back she wasn't here."
Video from the time shows Jones distraight, saying of investigators: "They're saying nothing. ... I don't know what's going on. I just want to know something, anything."
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At the time of her death, family members said Tessa had disappeared before, and that she had health problems that required her to take anti-seizure medication.
The couple had a son, Aiden, who was 3 at the time of the death.
In 2010, neighbor Tina Planas said the arguing from the house next door wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
"She was a good mother, they had their moments like every family does," Planas said. "You know it's sad. They had their arguments, but who doesn't?"