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A Montana man has reportedly confessed to strangling a woman, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it in a dumpster, officials said this week.

William Glenn Olson, 29, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in connection with the disappearance of 46-year-old Alicia Lindsey Wood, who was first reported missing on Nov. 30 and is now presumed dead, according to the court records reviewed by HuffPost. Police said Olson and Wood knew each other before the incident.

Wood’s body had yet to be located Friday, according to a police news release Cascade County Sheriff’s Office.

On Nov. 30, a concerned neighbor called Conrad City Police to request a welfare check at Wood’s home, according to an arrest affidavit shared by local news channel ABC FOX Montana. The neighbor told police that Wood had not been seen in days and was not responding to phone calls or text messages. Wood’s car was also missing from her parking lot.

When police peeked through the home’s window that evening, they noticed her home was “out of order,” with couch cushions on the floor and other items lying around, according to the affidavit.

Later that evening, police raided Wood’s home. They found no trace of the missing woman and her pets ran out of food and water, according to the affidavit. Inside, an officer saw what appeared to be red paint or blood splattered on the floors. Wood was officially declared missing that evening.

A tipster told officers investigating the case that her car had been parked on a highway outside Conrad on Nov. 27, according to the affidavit. Soemone had crashed Wood’s car and then fled the scene.

According to the affidavit, an inspection of the vehicle revealed blood spatter on the inside and outside of the car. Police noted handprints inside the vehicle “that appeared as if someone had dragged their hand across the car’s locking mechanism,” as well as a .22 caliber bullet casing on the floor.

Police made a breakthrough in Wood’s case on December 1, when her iPhone’s Find My Phone app pinged by a home in Conrad, according to the affidavit. A woman in the home led officers to Olson, who she said had vandalized Wood’s car.

On December 3, the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office took Olson into custody on outstanding warrants and was interviewed him about it Wood’s disappearance. Court records show he faced an unrelated domestic violence charge that was outstanding at the time of his arrest.

Olson told officers that he and Wood had been arguing at her home when the dispute escalated and that he killed her by choking her in a standoff, the affidavit said. He then allegedly placed Wood’s body in a hard-sided suitcase he found in her closet and placed it in the trunk of her car.

Olson allegedly told police he left the suitcase in a dumpster in Great Falls, near a local elementary school. According to the affidavit, sanitation trucks removed the waste from the dumpster on Nov. 27 and Wood’s body was allegedly unloaded at the landfill the next day.

The Cascade County Sheriff Office and several other agencies and volunteers have attended searching the dumpbut no one has found Wood yet.