Three men have been arrested in Merced County in connection with a killing that Merced sheriffs say was recorded on cell phone video. The suspects were arrested after the primary suspect's girlfriend went to a Merced police station Tuesday saying she had seen the video, according to the LA Times.

The alleged killer is one Dionicio Gutierrez-Salazar, 37 (the meanest looking one above, right), and his roommates, Francisco Alvarez, 25, and Alexis Eduardo Garcia-Jimenez, 25 (The Merced Sun-Star has the latter two men's ages as 24 and 19, respectively). The three lived with the victim, who has not been publicly identified.

The body, which was severely beaten, tied up, and stabbed repeatedly, was found badly burned and wrapped in a rug in an almond orchard outside the town of Atwater, where the murder apparently took place.

Sheriff's Sgt. Delray Shelton says that Gutierrez-Salazar has a "violent past" and was connected to but never arrested for a 2013 murder that was a stabbing. One of the two roommates has already confessed to witnessing the killing, and told detectives where the body was dumped. Detectives also found blood spatter and a murder weapon, a knife, at the apartment where the four men lived.

The other roommate may have been the one who recorded the murder.

The victim is said to have been in his 30s or 40s, and the murder stemmed from an argument during a night of drinking, on Saturday.

All three men are being held on suspicion of murder on $1 million bail.