Sydney Sutherland, 25, was reported missing after going for a jog along a rural road near Newport, Arkansas, and was discovered buried in a field by a highway

Sydney Sutherland, 25, was a nurse 

Quake Lewellyn, 28, is accused of murdering Sydney Sutherland then burying her body alongside a rural highway in the state of Arkansas.

According to court documents filed by police, he then joined a search party launched for the missing 25-year-old nurse in the days following her August 19 disappearance, reports the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

Lewellyn is facing charges of capital murder, rape, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse.

Sutherland was reported missing after failing to return to the home she shared with her boyfriend Alex Nicholson. 

A search party was assembled to look for her.