The body of a baby who was killed and buried in the snow in Northeast China had been recovered, police said on Wednesday .

The suspect, Zhou Xijun, turned himself in to police on Tuesday and has confessed, said Dai Renfei, a public security bureau spokeswoman for Changchun in Jilin province.

Zhou, 48, a native of neighboring Gongzhuling, is accused of strangling the 2-month-old Xu Haobo on Monday after finding the boy in the back seat of a silver gray Toyota RAV4 he stole in Changchun.