NEW ORLEANS — A note found on the body of a suicide jumper led police to a French Quarter apartment where they found a woman’s charred head in a pot, her arms and legs in the oven, and her torso in the refrigerator, police said yesterday.

Zackery Bowen, 28, leapt from the seventh floor of a luxury hotel in the Quarter on Tuesday night, police said. His note, found in his pocket, identified the woman as his girlfriend but did not mention her name.

The body was found in the secondfloor apartment that Bowen and his girlfriend, Adriane Hall, had shared on the edge of the Quarter above a voodoo shop, according to the landlord. Authorities said they were trying to find Hall but did not speculate on the identity of the dismembered woman.

A woman who identified herself as Priestess Miriam Chamani in the Voodoo Spiritual Temple and Cultural Center below the apartment said yesterday that the couple had recently moved in.

“You see people and never know what’s going on with them,” the woman said. The apartment’s owner, Leo Watermeier, said he last saw Hall on October 5, four days after the two put down a deposit on the one-bedroom, $750-a month flat.

Later that same day, Mr. Watermeier said, Bowen called him, angrily saying the woman was kicking him out.

Mr. Watermeier said Hall told him she had caught the boyfriend cheating.

Police spokesman Anthony Cannatella said the motive appeared to be a dispute over rent. Mr. Cannatella said the note indicated Bowen strangled the woman following an argument and cut up her body — using a hand saw and knife, according to police.