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-Lurid Crime Tales-

60-year-old woman beaten in break-in at Beanie Babies founder''s California mansion

2025-05-28

[NYPOST] A ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful maniac is behind bars for savagely beating a woman into a coma after breaking into the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, mansion of Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner, state prosecutors announced.

Russel Maxwell Phay, 43, of Nevada, was charged with first-degree attempted murder and related offenses for invading the Ty Inc. billionaire's Montecito home and viciously attacking a 60-year-old woman who was inside on May 21, according to the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office, NBC News reported.

The victim, Linda Malek-Aslanian, a financial services expert, was found battered outside the ritzy estate and taken to a nearby hospital, where she remains comatose due to a brain injury, court documents obtained by local station KSBW showed.

The alleged ~~dipshit~~ assailant, who has had previous run-ins with the law, was featured in a 2014 San Francisco Chronicle column about a specialized court system created for military veterans where he boasted his ability to “eliminate” anyone.

“I am fully trained for combat,” Phay told the Chronicle.

“I have been trained to eliminate you. I know that sounds crazy, but it is true.”

The famously reclusive 80-year-old CEO — who is worth a staggering $6.1 billion, according to Forbes — was home during the alleged home invasion and assault but was not harmed.

Aslanian and Warner have known each other for 25 years and are rumored to be romantically involved, sources familiar with both told The Post.

Police responded to the Fairway Road home at 4:31 p.m. and found the suspected attacker barricaded inside a second-floor bathroom, according to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office.

A crisis team tried to coax the brute from the bathroom before he jumped out of a window and was immediately taken into custody.

Phay, an Army combat veteran, was also charged with kidnapping, burglary and assault.

The alleged assailant, who has had previous run-ins with the law, was featured in a 2014 San Francisco Chronicle column about a specialized court system created for military veterans where he boasted his ability to “eliminate” anyone.

“I am fully trained for combat,” Phay told the Chronicle.

“I have been trained to eliminate you. I know that sounds crazy, but it is true.”

Posted by:Fred

#2 That pictured perpetrator [POW!!!] could be the half-weight little brother of one of my neighborhood's merry band of homeless whom I happened to pass this morning as he and a pal were cackling and hooting and spittle-spraying about somebody or other. About me, I thought at first, which would've been waaay weirder than anything I'd have expected from them. But no. Just some lucky lady of their acquaintance. Civility survives.

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2025-05-28 19:17

#1 Love the title...so alliteravtive...

Posted by: HeavyG 2025-05-28 11:07

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