Gary Driscoll was among several members of the band to be replaced after the successful self-titled debut album’s release. Cozy Powell became the band’s drummer, and Driscoll struggled to gain a foothold on the music world in his final years. His last effort was Bible Black, a band he formed with Craig Gruber, Joey Belladonna, Duck McDonald, and Jeff Fenholt.

Gruber stated that the band performed some big gigs and the response was excellent. “It was a great live band because we’re all really good players and comfortable in front of 20,000 people,” he said in an interview. Yet, the group drifted apart with their own obligations and priorities. According to Gruber, Driscoll moved back to the Midwest with his girlfriend, where he would take up a day job and perform on and off as a session musician until his grisly and mysterious death.

On June 8, 1987, he was found dead in a home in New York. As People reports, the facts of the case are almost nonexistent beyond that, but speculation is rife. It’s claimed that a snafu over drugs may have been the cause, and even that “Driscoll was either dismembered or flayed alive.”

Retroculturati suggests that there could have been multiple killers, and that the main suspect supposedly managed to escape the country before facing justice. With theories even suggesting a ritual Satanic sacrifice, the world may never know how this musical talent met his end.