A teenager handed himself in to police and confessed to killing his girlfriend during an argument about her being pregnant.
Naim Vera claimed he had pushed his 24-year-old partner Brenda Micaela Gordillo down a flight of stairs after a night out before attempting to burn her body on a grill.
The pair had returned to their apartment in Catamarca, a northwestern province of Argentina, at around 4am on Saturday, newspaper Clarin reports.
Her remains were found in a dumpster at the side of a road, though an autopsy later revealed that she was not pregnant.
Naim told the police he had a row with Brenda and after she fell down the steps he wrapped her body in a blanket before trying to burn it.
Officials have not confirmed whether Brenda was alive when her boyfriend burned her body, however, forensic experts believe she died by asphyxiation due to cloth placed in her mouth.
A piece of Naim's skin was also found under Brenda's nail, suggesting she struggled with Vera before she died, according to investigators.
"He did not butcher the body, but burned it and, as a result of the fire, the body was dismembered," the prosecutor said.
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