UPDATED: Woman Dies During Sex; Boyfriend Dumps Body Behind Mellow Mushroom

By Lisa Rab Tue., Jan. 25 2011 at 12:21 PM

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Muringer was arrested yesterday.

Asphyxiation turns your girlfriend on. So one day, during a particularly intense session, you wrap a hand around her throat and press hard.

She passes out, which isn't so rare. But you're angry because her bluish skin has interrupted the mood. You slam out of the apartment. An hour later, you come home to find her dead. What do you do?

David Muringer, 40, a short guy with tattoos of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote on his shoulder, told police he freaked out. The Lake Worth felon just got out of prison in December 2009 for organized fraud and cocaine possession, Florida Department of Corrections records

show. He didn't want to go back to jail.

UPDATE: There was a "large amount" of drugs in his apartment, according to the probable-cause affidavit, so calling the police wasn't a good idea. Muringer kept his lover's body in his bed for two days while he tried to come up with a plan.

Eventually, he crammed the body into a cardboard barrel, sealed it with duct tape, and rolled it out to her car. Then he drove around for four hours, police say.

Finally, he ended up in a parking lot behind Mellow Mushroom, the pizza joint in Delray Beach. He left the car, with the body of Doris Lopez, 48, of West Palm Beach inside, and took the bus home.

Later, a customer was waiting in the lot for her pizza when the horrific stench caught her attention, according to the Palm Beach Post. She saw hundreds of flies swarming around the car and a strange container inside stained with red.

She called 911 last October, but it took three more months for the Delray police to arrest Muringer. They charged him with manslaughter and the unlawful disposal of human remains. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail yesterday.

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Morgan

He not only has tattoos of cartoon characters on his shoulder, but he also has a tattoo on his penis. I dated this man for 6 months. He's remarkably good at hiding his crackhead status until about 2 months in. By then, I was so involved that I couldn't bring myself to walk away. When I finally did a few months later, after he accused me of being a prostitute and blowing guys while on the phone with him, he started stalking me. He broke into my apartment to "get his hat." You know that thing paranoid crackheads do where they accuse you of doing random shit that seemingly makes no sense, but then you later find out they were doing that exact thing, which is why they were accusing you of doing it? Yeah, well, turns out he was the prostitute. He was letting dudes bang him in the ass and sucking them off for crack money. Oh, did I mention I was 16 and he was 32? And he was well aware of my age? I was a dumb kid with a rebellious streak and hardcore self-esteem issues (obviously), but I want him behind bars for the rest of his life for the safety of society.

I wonder why he never mentioned the 80 times he was arrested...