A Kentucky man was busted after a body believed to be his missing girlfriend was found in his garbage can, authorities said.

John Meadows, 58, of Williamsburg, was arrested Monday on charges of murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, news station WKYT reported.

The remains are believed to belong to his 57-year-old girlfriend, Donna Lay, police said.

A neighbor had reported Lay missing on Jan. 27 after not seeing her in several weeks, the News Journal reported.

Police interviewed Meadows about his girlfriend’s disappearance the following day.

“His story didn’t make a whole lot of sense,” Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird told the paper.

Bird said they then obtained a search warrant for his home, where a trained cadaver dog alerted officers to the remains.

“After the dogs alerted, we opened the garbage can and there was a human body inside,” Bird told the Times-Tribune.  

The medical examiner hasn’t confirmed the identity of the remains, but an autopsy determined that the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities believe that Meadows had been living with the remains for three weeks before the gruesome discovery.

He’s being held in the Whitley County Detention Center and is set to be arraigned Thursday, the Times-Tribune reported.