Tim Lambesis arrested in alleged plot to kill wife

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Tim Lambesis, the Grammy-nominated lead singer of the band As I Lay Dying has been arrested on suspicion that he plotted to kill his estranged wife.
Lambesis, 32, allegedly tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his wife Meggan, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
The heavily tattooed singer was arrested in Oceanside five days after his contact with the undercover officer. His wife lives in nearby Encinitas.
"The information came to us late last week. We acted quickly on it. I believe that we averted a great tragedy," a police spokesperson said in a statement.
Officials say he is due to be arraigned on Thursday.
San Diego-based As I Lay Dying formed in 2000 and has released six albums. The band's 2007 song "Nothing Left" was nominated for a Grammy.
The Los Angeles Times calls Lambesis "an openly Christian heavy metal artist" who "recently posted a video on YouTube in which he and a band mate trade 'mosh calls for the lord,' including such rallying cries as 'crowd surf for the virgin birth.'"


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ambesis-arrested-in-alleged-plot-to-kill-wife
 
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Well, they're Christian...but not a Christian band per se. Most of their music is pretty heavy.

The problems with Tim started after his wife served him with divorce papers last year. Suddenly, he got obsessed with getting buffed...I think the steroids made him crazy.

I've been in lust with him since 2009. :(

Before steroids:



After steroids:

 
I remember when their 1st or 2nd album came out with the song "94 hours" on it. I remember thinking they were pretty heavy for a christian hardcore/metalcore band. Normally I wouldn`t listen to any kind of faith based group but seeing as how I can`t understand cookie monster vocals I can enjoy it based on the "br00talness" 8)

After that album they kind of fizzled on me.
 
As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis returned to the Vista Superior Court Friday (May 17) for a bail hearing relating to his alleged-murder-for-hire plot against his estranged wife and more details about the case were revealed in the process.

According to UTSanDiego.com, during Friday’s hearing the rocker’s attorney, Thomas Warwick, argued that his client had gotten into bodybuilding and healthy eating and later began taking nutritional supplements as a paid product spokesman. At some point he also began taking steroids, which the lawyer claimed were to blame for his behavior in instigating the murder-for-hire plot.

Warwick stated, “His thought processes were devastatingly affected by his steroid use.” According to NBCSanDiego.com, the lawyer added, “It has been a terrible tragedy. He was a very caring, gentle man [before taking steroids] and we need to get him back.” Lambesis reportedly ballooned in size from 170 pounds to 220 pounds and in his lawyer’s words “was not the same person. He was irritable and lost God.” A forensic psychiatrist who consulted for the defense stated that the vocalist got “roid rage” after using steroids.

Also during Friday’s hearing, Warwick was successful in getting Lambesis’ bail lowered, but not as far as was hoped. The lawyer asked for the bail to be lowered to $250,000 from the $3 million it was initially set at, but Judge David Berry only dropped it to $2 million. Warwick told the court that even with the decrease in bail, his client was still not able to pay the amount.

The 32-year-old has remained behind bars since May 7, accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife. However, the hitman in question was an undercover police officer.

Prosecutor Claudia Grasso told the court that Lambesis handed the officer an envelope containing $1,000 in cash, his wife’s address and the gate security codes. Grasso added that the vocalist did not flinch when told that the hit would cost $20,000.

Tim and Meggan Lambesis split last year after eight years of marriage and adopting three kids from Ethiopia. The prosecutor claimed that the vocalist told his wife in an email last summer that he no longer loved her and no longer believed in God. She also apparently learned that he had been having affairs. The singer’s wife filed for divorce in September.

http://loudwire.com/as-i-lay-dying-...ys-steroids-to-blame-in-murder-for-hire-plot/
 
I absolutely believe that Tim's use of steroids had a lot to do with this matter...I've adored this guy for years, but I also noticed that after he got into the body building, he was really different in interviews...more hostile and kind of out there. Frankly, that change seriously turned me on. But I never in a million years thought he'd try to have Meggan killed.

I wonder if he's allowed visitors in jail? :D
 
Wow man. Hiring a hitman is serious charges, could be 5-20 years in prison for that shit.
 
I know what to say... I just don't think it'd be appropriate. :-).
It's a interesting defense. Potentially has some merit.
I'm sure they'll trot out multiple experts who'll expound on the negative psychological aspects of steroids.
I doubt a jury's gonna buy it, but it's worth a try.
 
oh how i wish every christian 'metaller' gets incarcerated for a long, long time. maybe they can find jesus in all the nonconsensual buggery they'll no doubt be subjected to.
 
Illyria99 said:
Actually, I like the kind of guys who give off the vibe of, "I might fuck you...or kill you."

Good call.
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wow lets form a club. wait no, the only guy I want to fuck is living (resting?) in a fucking urn somewhere transformed into ashes, but whatever. If I had any interest in other people that would totally be my type too.
 
ebola? said:
Their next album should be titled "Kill for Hire".
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By the looks of it, they might not have a next album. And in my opinion, AILD without Tim on vocals just would not be the same. Ive been listening to them since they came out with Frail Words Collapse. Great band and really were one of the true innovators of the metal-core genre. Besides Unearth, that is.
 
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