{"id":4363,"date":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/05\/20\/christian-metal-singer-sentenced-to-prison-in-california-murder-plot\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"christian-metal-singer-sentenced-to-prison-in-california-murder-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/05\/20\/christian-metal-singer-sentenced-to-prison-in-california-murder-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian metal singer sentenced to prison in California murder plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"focusParagraph\"> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/85\/Tim_Lambesis_3.jpg\/250px-Tim_Lambesis_3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The lead singer for a heavy metal Christian rock band was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for pleading guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife, prosecutors in California said.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tim Lambesis, 33, lead singer for the band As I Lay Dying, had been in a custody dispute with his wife, Meggan, over their three children in May 2013 when he asked a personal trainer at his gym if he knew anyone who could kill his wife, according to charging documents in the criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trainer contacted the San Diego Sheriff&#8217;s Department, which sent an undercover detective to meet with Lambesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Lambesis admitted that he had paid the undercover detective $1,000 in cash for the murder, with an additional $19,000 to be paid when his wife of eight years was dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also gave the officer photos of his wife, the address of her complex and codes for the security gates, and a list of dates when he would have their three adopted children with him to provide an alibi, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lambesis had faced up to nine years in prison as part of the plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four remaining members of As I Lay Dying have announced they have formed a new band called Wovenwar, with a new singer.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead singer for a heavy metal Christian rock band was sentenced on Friday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}