FORT LAUDERDALE – from www.cbsnews.com – Investigators in Florida say a man kept his girlfriend’s body in his bed for two days while he tried to figure out how to dispose of it and later told police she had died during a night of rough sex, according to a report.

Doris Lopez’s body was found inside a car parked at a Delray Beach parking lot on October 26th. Three months after that discovery, police arrested 40-year-old David Muringer and have charged him with manslaughter in her death.

According to CBS affiliate WFOR, Muringer allegedly told authorities he had been casually dating 48-year-old Lopez, who lived in West Palm Beach.

He told investigators he choked Lopez during sex, but said her death was accidental. He said she lost consciousness once before and she had awakened moments later.

However, on the night she died, he got angry when she lost consciousness and reportedly threw her off the bed, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Police say he left the apartment and when he returned he found her lying on the floor dead.

According to a police report, Muringer waited two days before allegedly stuffing her body in a plastic bag then pushing it into a barrel.

“He told us he sealed the barrel with duct tape, rolled the barrel out of his apartment and placed the barrel into the back seat of the victim’s car,” Delray Beach police Detective Jason Jabcuga wrote in the arrest report.

WFOR reports that Muringer became a suspect in the case after a cell phone receipt was found in the car with his name on it.

On top of manslaughter, Muringer has also been charged with unlawful disposal of human remains. He is being held without bond.

More absorbing detail from www.browardbeach.com – 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.