As I lay dying frontman accused of hiring hitman......

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

To kill his Estranged Wife,

According to FOX 5 San Diego and Reuters, singer Tim Lambesis of San Diego metallers AS I LAY DYING was arrested for allegedly hiring someone to kill his estranged wife.

Lambesis, 32, was taken into custody without incident on Tuesday (May 7) around 2 p.m. at an Oceanside business, according to San Diego Sheriff's Department.

He was charged with solicitation of another to commit murder of his wife, who resides in Encinitas.

The investigation began after Lambesis contacted an undercover detective on May 2 to kill his wife, according to deputies.

Lambesis was booked into the Vista Detention Facility.

Back in March 2009, Lambesis had to miss several shows on AS I LAY DYING's tour with LAMB OF GOD since he was finalizing the adoption process for a baby. The vocalist of the Grammy-nominated band told Noisecreep at the time, "It's an amazing thing to become a father, but an honor like that is something that can never be timed perfectly. I've been in the process of adoption from Ethiopia for about a year now and it turns out that I will be able to take my son home in the first week of April."

In a January 2013 interview with Loudwire, Lambesis was asked if his humanitarianism provides him with a source of lyrical inspiration. "Yes, it's definitely a part of my life for me," he replied. "My kids are adopted and I've visited their country; they're from Ethiopia, and that was eye-opening to what the world is really like, at least a third of the world. I think that just influences my entire worldview. Even if I'm not necessarily writing a song about humanitarian work, I'm writing a song about what truly makes us happy in life, and those types of think that have been influenced by my experiences."

AS I LAY DYING's sixth album, "Awakened", sold around 28,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 11 on The Billboard 200 chart.

I never really listened to any of his music but wow what a evil bastard.

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I guess he wanted her to lay dying. But seriously Im honestly not shocked. I really haven't listened to them since 07 like I like their old stuff not the new stuff

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

I'm very shocked and I don't think I fully believe this. He's a stand-up guy and one of the last people I would expect this from

["Gentleman" AJ Powell]

I read the title of this thread as "As I lay dying in front of a man accused of hiring a hitman" and was thinking "Boy, your priorities are out of whack!

[WBL a.k.a. Mountie II]

As I Lay Dying... you're making sure the check clears?

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

May 7, 2013 21:17:16 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

To kill his Estranged Wife,
I never really listened to any of his music but wow what a evil bastard.

He's just accused so far, let's not draw the torches and pitchforks too early.

[zeez]

So is this gonna delay the release of the new Austrian Death Machine album?

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May 9, 2013 12:12:26 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

May 7, 2013 21:17:16 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

To kill his Estranged Wife,
I never really listened to any of his music but wow what a evil bastard.

He's just accused so far, let's not draw the torches and pitchforks too early.

He apparently contacted an undercover cop for the purpose of killing his wife, seems pretty clear what happened to me.

[Cesaro Smirk]

May 7, 2013 21:17:16 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

I never really listened to any of his music but wow what a evil bastard.

I guess I can toss my shirt out now after all of these years.

[theryno665]

May 8, 2013 1:17:02 GMT -5 fuzzywarble, squat cobbler said:

I'm very shocked and I don't think I fully believe this. He's a stand-up guy and one of the last people I would expect this from

Yeah, I wouldn't expect this from him. Sounds very out of character but who knows.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Update he has pleaded not guilty....

im Lambesis is arraigned at the Vista Courthouse Thursday. — Bill Wechter

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VISTA — The lead singer of a successful Christian heavy-metal band told at least two people at a gym recently that he wanted to have his wife killed, a prosecutor said in court Thursday.

Timothy Lambesis, 32, of the band As I Lay Dying, met with a person he believed was a hit man — but was actually an undercover detective — and handed him an envelope containing $1,000 cash, his wife’s address and the gate security codes. He told the agent he wanted his wife “gone,” said Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso.

This and other information led sheriff’s investigators to arrest Lambesis Tuesday in Oceanside. He pleaded not guilty in Vista Superior Court to a single count of solicitation for murder. He faces up to nine years in prison if convicted.

During the arraignment, Judge Martin Staven set Lambesis’ bail at $3 million, noting that the defendant has ties across the United States as well as outside the country. If he posts bail, the judge said, Lambesis will have to surrender his passport and wear a GPS device to monitor his whereabouts.

Staven also ordered the defendant to stay away from his wife, Meggan Lambesis, and their three children.

Defense attorney Anthony Salerno did not talk in detail about the allegations during the hearing, but said afterward that he believed his client may have been the victim of a setup.

“He did not intend to harm anybody,” the Los Angeles-based lawyer said.

Deputy District Attorney Claudia Grasso, who had asked for bail as high as $20 million, told the judge that the couple’s relationship suffered a major blow in August of last year when Tim Lambesis was on tour with his band. He sent an email to his wife saying he no longer loved her and did not want to be with her anymore.

He also wrote in the email that he no longer believed in God, the prosecutor said.

The wife learned that Lambesis had been having affairs with other women. She filed for divorce in September, citing “irreconcilable differences” and alleging that her husband had become obsessed with bodybuilding and going to the gym. She said in court documents that she was concerned about her husband’s ability to care for their children.

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May 9, 2013 19:52:28 GMT -5 Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster said:

Update he has pleaded not guilty....

The wife learned that Lambesis had been having affairs with other women. She filed for divorce in September, citing “irreconcilable differences” and alleging that her husband had become obsessed with bodybuilding and going to the gym. She said in court documents that she was concerned about her husband’s ability to care for their children.

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That would explain Austrian Death Machine

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Man I just realized I'm wearing one of my two As I Lay dying T shirts as I type this down

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

More details:

www.metalsucks.net/2013/05/09/video-from-tim-labesis-arraignment-more-details-of-prosecutions-alleged-case-revealed/

Maybe it's a misunderstanding

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Well his attorney has claimed this could be a set up......

AS I LAY DYING frontman Tim Lambesis' attorney believes his client may have been the victim of a setup in connection with the singer's alleged attempt to hire someone to kill Lambesis' estranged wife.

Tim was arrested without incident on Tuesday (May 7) around 2 p.m. at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Oceanside, California and was ordered held on $3 million bail during his arraignment hearing on Thursday. He faces nine years in state prison if convicted.

Prosecutors initially requested that Superior Court Judge Martin Staven set Lambesis' bail at $20 million, saying the singer remains "substantially motivated to kill his wife."

Speaking to Artisan News (see video below), Tim's attorney, Anthony Salerno, revealed that Tim's charges were a lot heavier initially, with the potential consequences being life in jail.

"He was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, which carries a life sentence, as well as being booked for soliciting murder," Salerno said. "I won't necessarily get too deep [in the details of] the law surrounding conspiracy, but I came to believe very strongly that there is absolutely no way that he could be even charged with conspiracy, much less convicted of it. [So] one of the first things I did was to reach out directly to the [district attorney] that was assigned to the case and had some conversations with her. And she, in fact, did decide for Tim not to be charged with conspiracy, which was a big victory, 'cause that took a potential life sentence off the table before he was even charged. That's something that jumped out at me right away — that I needed to do that early intervention — so we did that."

Salerno also said that Lambesis was originally being held without bail before the attorney was able to intervene.

"At the point Tim was first arrested, the Sheriff's Department asked for and received permission to hold him with no bail," he said. "They got that permission from a judge and I knew that that was well in excess of what the bail schedule in San Diego County calls for. So my next order of business was to try to see what we could do to get that bail… well, first of all, to get a bail, and then to get it set as low as possible. That, of course, was what the bail hearing was about [on Thursday]. I was a little bit disappointed; I thought the bail should have been much lower. The scheduled amount for the charge that he ultimately has now is just $250,000. And, in fact, the scheduled amount for even solicitation to commit murder is a million [dollars]; and the judge set it at three million. So I was a little disappointed that it was that high. On the other hand, the D.A. was asking that the bail continued to be set at no bail whatsoever, and then she said — [which] I thought [was] kind of over the top — that as a backup, it ought to be set at $20 million. I think the fact that an earlier judge had said 'no bail' kind of must have influenced our judge, and that's [why] he set the three million. So right now the gameplan is to try to work on getting Tim out at that three million or possibly to have it lowered."

The lawyer added that someone may have given false information about Lambesis to authorities in order to "save his own skin."

"I would anticipate myself asking for quite a bit of additional discovery, particularly on this person I strongly suspect is a snitch and is an informant for the police and was really creating this whole scenario and sort of setting Tim up," he said. "I believe there's a good probability he may be a police informant. And that information is only available internally with the police department, or in this case the San Diego Sheriff's Department, and through the D.A.'s office, and that's something I'm gonna have to explore as well."

He added: "There's one other element to this, too, which is… I don't want to start to make accusations on this one unless I have some more information, but I will point out that Tim's wife's brother, I understand, is a San Diego Sheriff's deputy, and I think I would be remiss if I didn't fully explore that, 'cause that is a litte bit… it's at the bare minimum very coincidental, and it may be more than that."

According to the San Diego Sheriff's Department web site, as of Friday afternoon (May 10), Lambesis had yet to post bail one day after pleading not guilty to a charge of solicitation of murder. The singer remains behind bars at a Vista, California detention facility and his next court date is set for June 10.

Lambesis was ordered to wear a GPS monitor and turn in his passport and was warned by the judge that, if he is released from jail, he must stay away from his immediate family.

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As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.- Agamemnon, the Odyssey.

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loudwire.com/as-i-lay-dying-singer-tim-lambesis-lawyer-says-steroids-to-blame-in-murder-for-hire-plot/

This just gets weirder and weirder.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

So the old it was roid rage made him hire a hitman excuse then.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

whose his lawyer, Lionel Hutz?

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Scott Steiner would have hired a hitman for each member of his family if steroids did that to you