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Travis Mullis, the man believed to have thrown his child out of his car and on the side of the road, has been captured and is behind bars in Philadelphia. Texas authorities will be seeking his extradition as early as possible. According to Philly police, Mullis confessed to purposely murdering the 3-month-old baby, and the details were even more horrific than previously imagined:

Police said Mullis told a gruesome tale of repeatedly stomping his son on the head before discarding the body on a seawall in Galveston.

Police said Mullis was able to get from Galveston to Philadelphia without anyone recognizing him because he took advantage of several churches.

“He said what he did was, he would stop at a church and tell them a sad story, and he would get money from a church. They would give him money,” a representative said.

The shocking story of the baby thrown from a car and left at the side of the road has an update. Police have identified the infant, and are now in search of his father as a “person of interest”. An autopsy also revealed that the baby was murdered before being tossed out of the vehicle.

A search was under way for Travis Mullis, 21, after an Alvin woman, whose name hasn’t been released, tentatively identified the body as that of her son. She contacted police on Tuesday, saying she hadn’t seen her son since Mullis took him that morning.

A couple who were bird-watching discovered the baby’s body Tuesday afternoon after first mistaking it for a doll.

The couple believed to be the baby’s parents had argued the night before the infant was killed, police said Wednesday.