CA - Aliso Viejo explosion: woman killed opening a box rigged with explosives, ex-boyfriend arrested, 15 May 2018 *Mistrial 2022*

[JoeFromLB]

Beal was supposed to return to court on October 18th to start the process for a new trial. He is still in federal custody without bail.

I do not have access to federal court records, so have no idea how this will proceed.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Long Beach man accused of killing ex-girlfriend in Aliso Viejo spa bombing once again on trial

Stephen Beal’s first federal trial ended with a hung jury and a mistrial

www.ocregister.com

 

[JoeFromLB]

GUILTY!

Sentencing set for November 17. He could get life without parole.

Good jury this time.

Long Beach man convicted of killing ex with bomb at Orange County spa

 

[JoeFromLB]

Some local Long Beach coverage of the case:

Long Beach man convicted of bombing ex-girlfriend's Orange County spa

 

[JoeFromLB]

Stephen Beal was sentenced today to life in federal prison, plus 30 years.
There is no parole in federal prison.

Long Beach man sentenced to life plus 30 years in bombing of OC day spa that killed ex-girlfriend

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The 2018 death of Ildiko Krajnyak, 48, in the package bombing came roughly a decade after Beal’s wife died in what an official with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said at the time was a “mysterious case.” Now, federal prosecutors have weighed in with a filing that calls the circumstances surrounding the death “highly suspicious.”

Beal, 64, has never been accused of a crime in Christine Beal’s March 8, 2008, death, which the medical examiner’s office concluded was “probably natural.” Beal won a half-million dollar lawsuit against an insurance company that initially denied an accidental death claim he filed in the months after she died.

But in the Jan. 5 filing, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for California’s Central District pointed to several factors in Christine’s death, including elevated lead levels in her body during a toxicology analysis and her husband’s “failure” to cooperate with medical staff. They made the allegation in a filing that urged the judge in the bombing case to consider the death as she determined Stephen’s prison sentence.

Before a California bomber killed his ex-girlfriend, his wife died a 'mysterious' death, officials say

Stephen Beal, who was sentenced to life for the 2018 blast, has never been accused of a crime in the death a decade earlier, but officials say he failed to cooperate with the investigation.

www.nbcnews.com