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A Sunrise, Fla., man is accused of killing and disemboweling his girlfriend in a tequila-fueled rage because she uttered her ex-husband’s name twice during sex.
Fidel Lopez called 911 about 3:39 a.m. Sunday and told the operator his girlfriend, Maria Nemeth, was having trouble breathing and was going to die, according to the arrest report filed in the case.
Sunrise police found Lopez crying for help next to Nemeth’s naked body on the floor of the bathroom with blood and body tissue around the apartment that Nemeth, 31, and Lopez, 24, had shared for about a week, the report said.
The bathroom door was ripped off its hinges and there was blood and tissue in the bathroom, a bedroom closet and smeared on walls and doors. There were several holes in the walls and a shattered sliding glass door, police said.
Sunrise Fire-Rescue pronounced Nemeth dead at 4:02 a.m.
Detectives said they found a half-empty bottle of tequila and cut limes in the kitchen and signs of a physical struggle and foul play.
Two people in a neighboring apartment reported hearing a man’s voice yelling and lots of loud noises that lasted for about two hours, police said.
During questioning Sunday morning, Lopez initially told investigators that he and Nemeth had been having rough sex and that she went into the bathroom, vomited and collapsed, the arrest report said.
Further questioning revealed a different story.
Lopez told detectives he became a “monster” when Nemeth called out her ex-husband’s name two times while they were having sex. He said hearing someone else’s name during sex upset and enraged him, investigators said.
Lopez said he left Nemeth in the closet where they were having sex and started breaking things throughout the apartment, smashing the rear sliding glass door and punching holes in the walls, police said.
He went back to the closet where Nemeth was lying unconscious and started inserting a beer bottle, a flat iron for hair and both fists inside of her, investigators said.
Lopez said he inserted his arm up to his elbow and ripped out part of her intestines, detectives said.
He carried her into the bathroom and tried to put water on Nemeth’s face, but she did not wake up.
Lopez told police he then washed the blood off his hands in the bathroom sink, went out on the porch to smoke a cigarette and then started to panic.
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After further efforts to clean the apartment, Lopez told police he checked on Nemeth in the bathroom, found that she wasn’t breathing and called 911, according to the arrest report.
Lopez was arrested at 2 p.m. Sunday and charged with first-degree murder, records show.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows only one other arrest for disorderly intoxication in 2014 on Lopez’s record.
Staff researcher Barbara Hijek contributed.
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