He killed his ex-girlfriend with a bomb in an Orange County spa. He'll spend life in prison
by Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times
Jan 20, 2024
3 minutes
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LOS ANGELES — A severed leg in the parking lot. Bloodied victims in spa robes. A burned-out shell where an Aliso Viejo business used to be.
The grisly aftermath of a 2018 explosion that rocked Orange County was laid out at a sentencing hearing in federal court for Stephen William Beal — convicted last year of planting a homemade package bomb that killed his ex-girlfriend and injured two others.
During the Friday hearing in downtown Los Angeles,
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