Washington police, who responded Thursday morning to a routine report of a suspicious vehicle, found a live scene from a horror movie: The car was filled with dismembered body parts and “meat” substances, they said. authorities.
The 2014 Honda Accord abandoned in the small town of Othello may not have attracted the attention of passers-by at all, if not for one annoying detail – it had blood stained on the hood.
“Following an additional investigation inside the vehicle, a dead subject was discovered,” said a press release from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
From there, things quickly went down when what appeared to be “meat” was found in the back seat, along with a man’s head sitting on the back board, court documents say.
Police soon found several parts of the body in the trunk of the vehicle. The limbs are considered to belong to two different people.
“At this time, the victims have not been positively identified due to the size of the bodies,” Sheriff Dale Wagner said in a news release on Friday.
A 28-year-old man identified as Mauricio Nava-Garibay is under arrest on suspicion of murder after he appears to have been seen walking away from the horrific crime scene. He allegedly told investigators that he had an altercation with his girlfriend, Dora Martinez, in her house, before luring her into a garage under the pretext of giving her a “gift”. He stabbed her several times in the neck and torso, punched her in the face and strangled her with an extension cord, he told detectives, according to local news media KIMA-TV.
Another woman identified as Guadalupe Martinez allegedly entered the garage at this time, when Nava-Garibay pushed her onto the concrete floor and stabbed her in the back of the head, according to several reports.
No other details were available about the relationship between the two women and the suspect.
“Investigations of this kind are very delicate and delicate. We appreciate any cooperation from our community, “said Wagner.