The ex-boyfriend of a Mount Prospect woman who was found dead in the Busse Woods Forest Preserve over the weekend has been charged with covering up her death.

Juan Pio Toto, 26, is accused of concealing a death, authorities said Tuesday.

Atalia Pucheta Martinez, 23, was reported missing on Saturday. Soon after, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office and Cook County Forest Preserve Police conducted a death investigation at Busse Woods Forest Preserve, where Pucheta Martinez’s body was discovered Saturday morning.

Mount Prospect police interviewed Pucheta Martinez’s ex-boyfriend, Pio Toto. He told police the two had an altercation in the parking lot outside their apartment when she hit her head the morning she was reported missing.

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