Man tries to sell car with girlfriend’s dead body inside: cops

You’re never quite sure what you’re getting when you buy an old jalopy – just ask the Texas man who found $850,000 worth of cocaine last year in a car he picked up at auction.

Still, a Tennessee resident recently in the market for some second-hand wheels got an especially large shock upon discovering that the advertised vehicle came with a gruesome added feature: the corpse of the seller’s girlfriend.

Robert Miquel Johnson is accused of murdering his significant other and then meeting someone interested in buying her car with the woman’s dead body on the back seat.

The 31-year-old allegedly tried to make a quick buck on the vehicle a day before the remains of Pamela Paz, 44, were discovered in a parking area under a Nashville overpass on May 2, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said.

An autopsy later revealed that Paz had been strangled.

After Johnson was hauled in for questioning over her murder, detectives unearthed a witness who claimed to have seen the suspect attempting to sell the victim’s Dodge Charger with her body inside.

Johnson allegedly lied about his whereabouts at the time of the murder, but was later found out.

“He was interviewed and provided an alibi, which was subsequently proven to be false,” police said.

An arrest warrant charging Johnson with criminal homicide was filed Monday.

He is currently in jail in neighboring Wilson County on unrelated charges, although authorities said he will be extradited to Nashville “in the near future.”

Police are yet to suggest a motive for the murder or confirm exactly where and when it took place.