As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to have his estranged wife murdered.Note to all those looking to hire a hitman: the second guy you try to hire is usually a cop, because the first guy you asked went straight to them.
In a press release titled "Murder for Hire Plot Foiled," the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Lambesis was arrested "without incident" on Tuesday, May 7 at 2:00 p.m. in a retail business on Vista Way in Oceanside, California.
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On Tuesday afternoon, Lambesis is alleged to have asked an undercover detective to kill his wife. Authorities arrested him, took him to the Encinitas Station and booked him into the Vista Detention Facility.
Meggan Lambesis is listed on Neptune Avenue.
Interesting. And stories like this are usually reliable and likely true. However, In October of 1994, the Blade Citizen had a front page article "Leucadia Home Center of Murder Probe" in which a Carlsbad detective told reporter Janet Lavelle that "Cheri Dale said she left a bag of bloody clothes at Charles Vary's house" immediately following a murder. Authorities also swore that an eye witness (Roberto Franco) saw Cheri's bloody clothing being washed out at the same house. Imagine how damaging that front page article would be to you if it were not true. Well it wasn't.
ReplyDelete#1. Lavelle got familiar with grand jury transcript in the case and found under oath the same detective had admitted "Cheri never said anything about a bag of bloody clothes". Lavell then wrote "Inconsistencies Arise in Case" in which she reported the arresting officer "misrepresented the case to the Blade Citizen".
#2. Knowing full well that Roberto Ibarra Franco was incarcerated from late '89 unitl mid '91, authorities still told two judges he was a credible eye-witness to Cheri washing out bloody clothes at Vary's house only a day or two after a murder (1-25-90, while Franco was sitting in jail already for 2 months of his 2 year sentence). The "missing bag of bloody clothes that were never found" was a complete prosecutorial fabrication.
Cheri's in her 19th year of prison now for a murder she had nothing to do with due to this and several other instances of governmental misconduct.
So I'll really have to hear more about this attempted murder case, before I buy it hook line and sinker instead of relying on what the press I read has to say about it. So excuse me for having any doubts.