"After he and his wife divorced in 2017, he met his next girlfriend, Alice Herrmann, 61, through work. The two of them split time between the East Bay and Herrmann's Capitola home, with occasional visits to Herrmann's family home in Hawaii."
"Herrmann was an accomplished professor with a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of the outdoors, her friend Betsy Marvit told SFGATE. 'She was a soft-spoken lover of life,' Marvit said."
"In the murder trial unfolding now in Santa Cruz Superior Court, Lengyel's lawyer doesn't deny that he killed her - merely that what he did doesn't rise to the category of 'murder.' He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder."
"What sent a former rock star down a spiraling path that ended in a murder trial? According to numerous character witnesses brought by the prosecution, the answer has something to do with unchecked anger issues, a refusal to seek help and a growing dependence on alcohol."
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