Authorities caught up with the suspect at a block of apartments in the seaside town of Lloret de Mar, located around 70 kilometers (40 miles) northeast of Barcelona, police said in a statement. They were able to retrieve the toddler, who was unharmed.
Police reported that the man recently received a "macabre" tattoo on his upper arm. The freshly-inked tattoo contained his deceased girlfriend`s name, the date of her birth and the suspected date of her murder - "27/10/2016."
The date was accompanied by a cross and the words "Thank you for everything" in Spanish.
The 22-year-old suspect had been on the run since German police found the body of his girlfriend, whose throat had been slit, inside plastic bags in the couple`s apartment in Freyung at the end of October.
After the murder, the man texted his friends a picture of himself and his son from France, telling them he wanted to take a short vacation before turning himself in.
He is also suspected of using his deceased girlfriend`s cell phone to update her social media profiles to throw off investigators. The suspect`s extradition from Spain is expected to take a few weeks.
The toddler is now in a Spanish juvenile welfare home until German social services staff come to Spain to pick him up.
Bavarian police expressed relief during a press conference that the child was retrieved unharmed.
"The safety of the child has always been a top priority for us," said a police spokesman on Sunday.
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