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A pair of women lovers inspired by the television show “Dexter” allegedly killed and dismembered a hotel worker in Portugal.

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According to the Daily Mail, 19-year-old Maria Malveiro and her lover, 23-year-old Mariana Fonseca, are accused of killing Diogo Goncalves and dismembering his body — keeping his head, torso, arms, hands and feet for several days — before dumping the parts into the sea from cliffs in the Algarve town of Sagres.

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At one point, the pair allegedly used Goncalves’s hacked-off fingers to access the man’s mobile bank account via his prints and stole $103,000 that was an inheritance from his mother, who was killed in a car accident in 2016.

Details of the victim’s Dexter-inspired killing emerged as prosecutors readied themselves to put Malveiro and Fonseca on trial for murder.

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Prosecutors stated Goncalves was strangled to death on March 18, with his body thrown into the sea four days later.

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The women allegedly used a finger from his right hand to access his mobile bank account and transfer the cash before waiting a day to dump his remains.

The man’s dismembered body parts were reportedly kept in two separate vehicles — which included the victim’s own Mercedes — before being thrown down the Pego do Inferno waterfall near the town of Tavira.

The pair allegedly spent three days after killing Goncalves sending messages from the man’s Facebook account to trick friends and colleagues into thinking he was still alive.

Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias reported the victim liked Malveiro and the woman took advantage of that by giving him orange juice laced with a sedative and promising him a lap dance at his home.

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That’s where Goncalves was allegedly tied to a chair and strangled to death before being dismembered by the lesbian lovers.

The women allegedly tried to make it look like the victim killed himself by leaving his car in a spot overlooking the sea in Cape St. Vincent. Cops say Malveiro and Fonseca botched their cover-up after throwing the torso from the cliff.

The body part didn’t land in the water, rather ending up on dry land, leaving vital evidence linking the women to the crime, according to authorities.

The women were arrested and charged with suspicion of the crime of murder and profanation of a body.

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