Not long after Prymaat disappeared from Columbus, Beldar and Connie drifted apart. Connie suspected that her father had been mistreating Prymaat and that he had driven her off. As was mentioned in the first plea for help on the Arabidopsis News Group, Connie had become very distraught. Prior to the fateful night of Prymaat's unexpected departure, Connie had been making great progress with her 2 dimensional art and had just signed on for her first private gallery show. Everyone expected her to be a successful artist in the near future. Unfortunately, she essentially stopped her art work after her mothers disappearance. A few weeks after Prymaat had disappeared, Connie ran off to live with our undergraduate dishwasher, Charles, who she had initially met in the greenhouses while working for the Arabidopsis Stock Center.

Soon, rumors began spreading around campus that she was engaging in promiscuous sexual activities (referred to on Remulak as 'honing the cone') with young OSU students. When Charles heard these rumors, he became enraged and was barely able to do his job and essentially quit attending classes. When he wasn't in the lab doing dishes, he was out roaming the streets looking to beat up anyone who might have honed Connie's cone. The whole time, he continued to live with Connie and tried to take care of her. However, Connie became worried when she realized that he had been tracking down her former lovers and severely beating them. Eventually, he was arrested for assault and battery. Connie felt she owed it to him to help him. She bailed him out and retained a lawyer.

When they returned from jail after the bail was taken care of, Connie tried to stay with Charles in his apartment. However, after just a few days, she felt the urge to go out on one of her adventures and told Charles that she was going out for groceries. Charles suspected that she was going out for more and followed her. Within an hour she was at the Ohio Union where she found a young freshman who was more than eager to have his cone honed. Charles followed them back to the students dorm room and he listened to the honing from outside the door. He felt his heart being torn from his chest and was so angered he wanted to kill Connie and her young lover. However, he did not act on his impulse and ran back to his apartment where he tried to vent his anger by breaking everything that belong to Connie.

Connie returned to the apartment a short time later with a quart of milk and some bread. She told Charles that she had run into an old friend and lost track of the time. When she went to put the milk in the refrigerator, she noticed the pile of broken items in the corner of the kitchen. She turned Charles to ask what had happened but Charles had lost control of himself. He grabbed a large butcher knife from the knife block next to the toaster oven and before either of them knew what happened, he lashed out with the knife and sliced her throat so deeply that he essentially decapitated her. When he realized what he had done, he became so scared that he grabbed all of the money he had in the apartment and ran off.

Charles stopped at the bank and withdrew all the money he had in his checking and savings accounts and caught a bus to New York. However, before the bus left, he called the police and notified them that there was a problem in his apartment. A few days after the murder, the NYPD were notified that someone using a credit card with the name of Connie Conehead had purchased some clothes at Macy's in Manhattan. It didn't take the police long to get there but Charles had already left the store.

To this day, Charles has not been brought to justice. However, Prymaat and Jean Luc have offered a reward for information leading to his arrest. The police hope that someone reading this story will recognize Charles from the police sketch shown below and provide them with the suspects location.

Needless to say, Beldar was emotionally devastated buy Connie's death. With no family left, Beldar was close to suicide and he began drinking heavily. For a little more than a year, he was homeless living under the King Ave bridge in Columbus. He was frequently seen talking to himself and washing his feet in Mirror Lake on the OSU campus. Fortunately, however, once he learned that Prymaat had not been abducted and was alive and traveling by her own choice, he entered the Betty Ford clinic where he spent several months recovering from his alcohol dependency. He proved to be an exceptionally difficult case since it was the Conehead's nature to consume vast quantities of everything, especially beer. However, Beldar was determined and managed to control his consumption enough that he was eventually released from the clinic. He felt confident enough with his own life at that point that he willingly signed a divorce agreement with Prymaat and was relieved to put the tragic days behind him. He has recently been reported to have a steady job as a termite exterminator and not consumed vast quantities of alcohol since leaving the Ford clinic.