Massachusetts officials have charged a man aged 42 with the murder of a Maine chef discovered deceased, encased in blankets and sealed with duct tape, in the rear of his car last month at a hospital in Weymouth.

The Plymouth District’s district attorney’s office announced that Christopher Caron turned himself in to Scituate Police on Saturday as investigators were preparing to locate him. He is anticipated to be arraigned on a murder charge in court Tuesday related to the death of 27-year-old Declan Perry.

The investigation commenced on August 23 when Caron, later identified as the suspect, drove Perry’s black Honda Civic to South Shore Hospital’s emergency room, “alerted medical staff of a body within the vehicle,” and then fled. Medical staff found the body “wrapped in multiple blankets secured with duct tape.”

A significant lead emerged when a resident from the Driftway condo complex in Scituate contacted authorities after recognizing a news report about the body found at the Weymouth hospital. This individual informed detectives that they had assisted Caron in “loading a large, heavy blanket into the black Honda Civic” outside Caron’s residence.

Court records indicate Caron told the neighbor the item in the blanket was “a hockey goalie mannequin which was usually filled with water,” according to a WFXT report.

The report also noted that during a search warrant execution at a condo, police confiscated a belt, scissors, a wooden door, sandals, two web cameras, a piece of mail, a medical document, and swabs of reddish-brown stains.

The medical examiner has not yet revealed Perry’s cause of death.

WMTW reported that Perry was a beloved chef at The Grill Room in Portland.