The body of a woman kidnapped five days ago outside a Boston nightclub was found in the trunk of a car chased down Thursday by Delaware State Police on I-95 south of Wilmington, according to Boston police and the victim's family.

The family of 23-year-old Jassy Correia told the Boston Globe Thursday night that the body of Correia, the mother of a 2-year-old girl, was found in the trunk of the car stopped on the Churchmans Road off-ramp.

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Police departments along the East Coast had been on the lookout for a maroon car driven by a Providence, Rhode Island man suspected in the abduction.

Around 2 p.m. Thursday, Delaware State Police spotted the car, and after a brief chase on I-95, pulled it over at the Stanton exit.

The driver, 32-year-old Louis D. Coleman III, was taken into custody, according to Boston police.

The car was towed away about 4 p.m. after the state medical examiner arrived on the scene. The time and manner of Correia's death are not yet known.

Southbound traffic on I-95 was jammed for hours following the chase.

Delaware State Police have not released any information about the chase.

Boston police say Correia was last seen on surveillance video leaving the Venu Nightclub in the company of a man on Sunday and getting into a maroon car. Coleman was later identified as the man seen on surveillance video with Correia.

“She was a mother, she was brave, she was strong,” Correia’s cousin Katia Depina told The Boston Globe Thursday night at a Dorchester home where family and friends had gathered. “She did not deserve this. She went out to celebrate her birthday and never returned home.’’

Providence, Rhode Island Police Chief Hugh Clements Jr. told reporters that investigators have launched a homicide investigation. The Providence Journal is reporting local and Boston police searched Coleman's Providence home on Thursday looking for evidence.

The FBI and federal prosecutors were also called in, Clements said.

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