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PREVIOUSLY: Theo Lengyel, Founding Member of Eureka’s Mr. Bungle, Arrested in Connection With Girlfriend’s Murder

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Theobald “Theo” Lengyel, a founding member of the Eureka-based experimental rock band Mr. Bungle, was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the killing of his girlfriend Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, according to SF Gate.

The Santa Cruz jury deliberated for just one day before handing down the guilty verdict against Lengyel, marking the end of a six-week trial that “took a shocking turn in its fourth week” following the “eleventh-hour discovery of an audio recording on Herrmann’s phone from the night of her death,” the SF Gate reports. Lengyel faces life in prison and is set to be sentenced in November.

Lengyel, who sometimes used the name “Mylo Stone,” was arrested in January after investigators with the Capitola Police Department found Herrmann’s remains in a wooded area within Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley. She was reported missing by family members in December 2023. The SF Gate report includes the following additional information:

The details around Herrmann’s death were initially inferred largely by digital forensics that showed when her watch stopped recording her heartbeat and traffic camera photos showing Lengyel driving Herrmann’s red Toyota Highlander in the East Bay the same night that she was killed. Lengyel buried her body in Berkley’s Tilden Park under a pile of rocks; a piece of rope was found next to her body, which Lengyel said later was a remnant of his failed attempt to hang himself next to her. 

Lengyel was among the Eureka High School students who formed Mr. Bungle in 1985, along with lead singer Mike Patton, who went on to front alt-metal band Faith No More. Lengyel split with the band in 1996 due to “creative differences.”