Stephen Beal

A Long Beach man who was “obsessed and infatuated” with the owner of an Aliso Viejo day spa built a powerful bomb that killed the woman and injured two others after she broke up with him, a prosecutor told a federal jury Thursday — but a defense lawyer said the FBI arrested the wrong person and ignored “obvious suspects.”

Stephen William Beal is accused of failing to report a $350,000 windfall from his wife’s death. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020.

The man accused of killing his former girlfriend and business partner with a powerful package bomb at a day spa in Aliso Viejo has been indicted on new, unrelated fraud charges, according to court documents. Stephen William Beal, 61, is accused in a newly unsealed two-count indictment of failing to report a $350,000 windfall from his wife’s death in the…

A Long Beach man accused of bombing an Aliso Viejo day spa, killing his ex-girlfriend and seriously injuring two other women, pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that could land him in prison for life.

Friends and family of the victim to an explosion in Santa Ana react to the suspect’s conviction. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, March 4, 2019.

A Long Beach man has been charged with causing the package bomb explosion at a day spa in Aliso Viejo that killed the man’s ex-girlfriend and injured two others in 2018, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday.

An FBI spokeswoman says a California man freed after his arrest last year on suspicion of having explosives after a blast killed his ex-girlfriend at her day spa has been arrested again, this time directly tied to the explosion.

A Southern California man who was arrested on an explosives charge after a blast killed his former girlfriend last week at her day spa was ordered held without bail at a court appearance Monday.

A decade before his ex-girlfriend was killed in what investigators say was a targeted explosion, Stephen Beal’s wife died in what a coroner deemed a “mysterious case.”

New details emerge about Stephen Beal, the man accused of carrying out the explosion at a medical building in Aliso Viejo. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Thursday, May 17, 2018.

The former boyfriend and business associate of a woman killed in a bombing at an Orange County medical building told federal agents he had constructed a small explosive to help with his neighbor’s “gopher problem.”