word has come that police have found the body of 26-year-old erica kripin in sikesville, maryland she went missing on new years eve but deputies were able to fine her using the gps from her alleged killer. >> reporter: fascinating story the search for erica's body is going on for months and law enforcement focused on an every day technology, a gps device but apparently it records where it has been and that was a big break. >> yesterday at approximately 12:12 p.m. the body of erica kripin was discovered in sikesville maryland. >> that discovery, 140 miles from her home turns on an every day gps device. >> the kind you and i can go "electronics store and buy it was a garmin. >> it's believed she was killed december 31st and her husband was arrested on january 12th this red ford that crosby was driving had a gps and had a memory of where the car stopped in the prior days and it showed crosby went to rural money and marked two locations one he marked as idk which took as i don't know and the second one was maybe. >> in the end erica's body was found at a third location a few miles away by

the body a new jersey woman that went missing on new years eve they discovered the remains of erica kripin in mount holly. john rawlins here now. >> reporter: she was last seen aloofa alive before new years and that she was the victim of domestic violence but to the frustration of police and her family her body has been missing, but her body was found 140 miles from her home. >> we can go to an electronics store and buy it it was a garmin an older generation garmin. >> a simple gadget like this was key to finding erica's body, it's believed she was killed december 31st and her husband was arrested on january 12th. the car she was driving had a gps and had a memory of every location the car had stopped in the prior days. in edition, two locations in rural maryland were marked electronically and authorities theoryized that the suspect was scouting for a body. >> the two locations were ultimately ruled out and the body was found within two or three miles of those locations. >> one data point as what he describes as an electronic bread crumb led to this tree, where they found her body yesterda