A 54-year-old El Cerrito man charged with killing his girlfriend and hiding her body beneath a pile of rocks in a Berkeley park was held to answer on charges Wednesday.
his girlfriend and hiding her body beneath a pile of rocks in a Berkeley park was held to answer on charges Wednesday.After a two-day preliminary hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Nancy de la Peña ruled that the prosecution had provided sufficient preliminary evidence needed to send Theobald Lengyel to trial on felony charges of murder, burglary and vehicle theft.
Days earlier, Lengyel shaved his head and beard and sent messages to family members, including his brother in Portland, saying something to the effect of “brace yourself, it’s much worse than you could ever imagine,” Capitola Police detective Zack Currier testified. He then traveled to Portland, Oregon, to see his brother, to whom he gave his dog and pickup, according to testimony.
Lengyel also reportedly spoke to Herrmann’s brother by phone for more than two hours, during which Lengyel at some point allegedly apologized to him and said something to the effect of “he didn’t mean to hurt anybody and that people are so fragile and people break easily,” Currier testified.
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