Pop star violently murdered his girlfriend when argument went wrong - but she recorded whole thing

The experimental stone band, Mr Bungle, was formed successful California successful the 1980s erstwhile immoderate of the members were inactive successful precocious school. The set went connected to beryllium signed by a grounds company, and they released respective critically acclaimed albums and grew a cult following.

But present they person a slayer as portion of their history.

Over the years, the Mr Bungle line-up changed with caller musicians, but determination were 3 accordant members. One of those was Theobald Lengyel, aka Mylo Stone, who had been a founding subordinate successful 1985 and stayed for 11 years. Lengyel was chiefly a saxophone player, but besides played clarinet and keyboards, and featured connected the archetypal 2 albums earlier leaving, citing “artistic differences”.

After leaving the band, Lengyel worked successful bundle engineering and continued his euphony connected the side. After a divorcement from his archetypal wife, helium met his woman Alice Herrmann, 61, who was known arsenic Alyx, and they started dating successful 2017.

Alyx lived adjacent Santa Cruz successful California and was besides moving successful the tech sector.

She was a instrumentalist with a PhD successful neuroscience and had a grown-up daughter. Alyx was a precise progressive subordinate of the section canoe group. Whenever she got the chance, she was outdoors, particularly connected the water wherever she would vie successful canoe races.

Over the six years the mates were dating, Alyx had galore friends and was a large portion of the community, but she kept a batch of things to herself. She didn’t archer anyone that Lengyel had a temper, and an intoxicant addiction. Over the years, he’d grown resentful of his job, and had lashed retired astatine the women successful his life, including his ex-wife and sister. They’d aboriginal attest that helium would person convulsive outbursts erstwhile helium didn’t get his ain way.

Gentle psyche Alyx was considering retiring and moving to Hawaii to attraction for her aged father. She dreamed of canoeing connected the waters and spending much clip with her 2 brothers. Lengyel wasn’t portion of this plan. Alyx was growing bushed of the maltreatment down closed doors.

On the greeting of Sunday 3 December 2023, Alyx was retired connected the section harbour canoeing with her racing club. The adjacent time she worked from home, but connected 5 December, she didn’t crook up for enactment and her colleagues contacted her family. Alyx was owed to alert to Hawaii to sojourn her dada connected 12 December, but she missed the flight. Her frantic loved ones reported Alyx missing.

Police recovered her idiosyncratic belongings, including her telephone and her Apple watch, astatine her home. Surveillance footage showed that Lengyel had been astatine the location connected 4 December aft stopping astatine a section off-licence connected the way. Despite him sending her messages aft he’d left, determination was nary motion that Alyx had responded oregon near her home. Her Apple ticker stopped registering a heartbeat connected 4 December astatine 11.44pm.

Lengyel was named arsenic a idiosyncratic of interest, but helium refused to cooperate. He’d been seen driving a car registered to Alyx connected 5 December, and erstwhile the conveyance was recovered parked astatine his home, it had traces of her humor inside. By then, Lengyel had gone to sojourn his member – aft sending him a connection saying, “Brace yourself, it’s worse than you think.” Lengyel had adjacent shaved his caput and beard, seemingly changing his appearance. His member noted a wound people connected his arm.

On 1 January, the assemblage was heartbroken erstwhile Alyx’s assemblage was recovered partially buried successful Tilden Regional Park successful the Berkeley Hills. She had been strangled.

Tragically, parts of her assemblage and organs were missing owed to scavenging animals. Lengyel was yet arrested and charged with her murder.

At the proceedings successful August 2024, the prosecution said that Alyx was killed by her fellow connected 4 December 2023, successful her location during an argument. The defence said it was manslaughter arsenic helium was provoked and it wasn’t preplanned. It was intolerable to find the details of the argument.

But then, a period into the six-week trial, determination was a bombshell revelation that caused a week-long break. Investigators discovered an audio signaling connected Alyx’s mobile telephone that had been missed. It’s chartless whether it had accidently been recorded oregon whether Alyx had done it connected purpose, but it documented the 3 hours starring up to her decease successful harrowing detail.

The signaling was played to the jury. It started with Lengyel playing the soft past helium got aggravated astatine Alyx for not wanting to spell retired and play pool. She had to spell to enactment the adjacent time and wanted to get immoderate sleep. As helium repeatedly asked her and she continued to decline, the enactment escalated, and helium started to endanger her beingness much than 30 times.

“I could mash your f**king brain,” helium said astatine 9.53pm, past said he’d termination her canine to amusement what helium could bash to her. Alyx demanded that helium leave, but helium could beryllium heard restraining her. “Are you astatine my mercy close now?” helium shouted. “You’re gonna f**king dice close now. Are you ready?”

He taunted her by suggesting ways helium could termination her. “How bash you privation to die? Blunt trauma oregon thing else… deliberation you should beryllium choked to death?” Terrified, Alyx pleaded for her life, but Lengyel told her: “It’s excessively f**king precocious for that.” At 1 constituent helium punched her and broke her nose.

Other times helium called himself a “genius”.

The assemblage had to perceive arsenic Alyx was choked to death. She was heard gasping for aerial and begging Lengyel to stop. As Lengyel attacks her, she screams but she was overpowered successful the last struggle. He strangled her implicit 5 agonising minutes.

As she was dying, Lengyel told her, “You wouldn’t f**king play nice.” She managed to cry, “It’s not my fault.”

The tribunal heard however indifferent Lengyel was to Alyx’s pleads. He’d past sent texts to unreal helium thought she was inactive live – past stripped her assemblage and buried her.

Lengyel could beryllium heard connected the signaling saying, “You utilized to conscionable bash what I want.”

The prosecution said that Alyx had refused him, and helium wanted the power back. Lengyel, 54, was recovered blameworthy of first-degree murder, and helium was sentenced to 25 years to life. He volition beryllium eligible for parole aft 24 years. After uncovering fame arsenic a musician, Lengyel had recovered infamy arsenic a killer. His bequest volition beryllium the brutal three-hour signaling that exposed to the world what helium was genuinely like.