Former Mr. Bungle member Theobald "Theo" Lengyel was found guilty of first degree murder on Friday, October 11 and is currently facing life in prison.
Lengyel was found guilty of killing his girlfriend, Alice "Alyx" Hermann, inside her home in Capitola, CA. Lengyel was arrested this past January after law enforcement found Hermann's body in a park in Berkeley, CA. Hermann had been missing since December.
According to CBS San Francisco, A pivotal moment in the case came when prosecutors played an audio recording allegedly from Hermann's phone of Hermann begging for her life while Lengyel strangled her to death.
According to a notification published by the El Cerrito Police Department at the time, Herrmann was last seen in Santa Cruz, CA, on December 3, 2023. Herrmann was reported missing by her relatives on December 12, 2023, after not hearing from her for over a week. El Cerrito investigators located her vehicle in front of the home of her boyfriend, 54-year old Theobald "Theo" Brooks Lengyel, in El Cerrito, CA.
The notification named Lengyel as a "person of interest in Alice Hermann's disappearance" and stated that he had "not cooperated with the police investigation."
Lengyel and Hermann were previously married and had filed for divorce in 2017 after a domestic violence incident. At the time, Hermann file a restraining order against Lengyel.
Lengyel played saxophone, clarinet, and keyboards in Mr. Bungle between 1986 and 1995. Lengyel performed on all of Mr. Bungle's releases from The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny in 1986 to Disco Volante in 1995.
