The body of 9-year-old Fort Wayne girl Aliahna Lemmon has been recovered, police said, and the 39-year-old man who was babysitting her when she went missing will appear in an Indiana courtroom Tuesday, charged with murder.

“It was a horrific crime," Allen County Sheriff Ken Fries told reporters Monday. "Probably worse than you can imagine."

The suspect, Mike Plumadore, a family friend, was "interviewed by police and taken into custody at 9 pm and charged with murder" in Lemmon's death, Allen County sheriff's spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Tinkel said Monday.