The Suspect in Death of Google Executive Updated: Not the first suspicious death
To me if there’s a culprit here it’s the person who injected heroin. I don’t suspect anyone tied him down and forced it upon him, but it’s typical of police to sensationalize this and go after a sex worker for the rich guy’s mistake. Put yourself in the sex worker’s shoes & ask yourself if you could tell the difference between someone passed out from a “good” heroin high and someone dying from it, ask yourself if you would call an ambulance knowing that it would expose the Google exec’s habits to his family and the public at large. There’s some negligence here, but does it amount to manslaughter?
You can expect this to drag out wall to wall on some cable shows all summer long just due to the sensational and salacious drug and sex angles.
UPDATE: I very well could be wrong above. Please note this article from Slate - apparently this is not the first Heroin overdose death A. C. Tichelman participated in.
from Slate:
Alix Tichelman is the 26-year-old woman accused of murder for injecting 51-year-old Google executive Forest Hayes with heroin and leaving him to die when he became sick. She also, it turns out, dated a 53-year-old who ended up dying in similar fashion just two months before Hayes on the other side of the country. From CBS “Crimesider”:
Dean Riopelle, 53, died of a heroin overdose in September 2013 in Milton, 30 miles north of Atlanta, about two months before Google executive Forrest Hayes died of an overdose on his yacht.
Original article
Alix Catherine Tichelman fancied herself a woman of many talents: model, makeup artist, writer, poet, hustler and exotic dancer.
Police say she deserves another moniker: murderess.
Prosecutors charged Tichelman, 26, of Atlanta, with manslaughter Wednesday for allegedly injecting high profile Google executive Forrest Tim Hayes with heroin and then standing by as he overdosed and died Nov. 23 on his 50-foot yacht, Escape, in the Santa Cruz, Calif., harbor.
Tichelman, who allegedly worked as a call girl, had an “ongoing prostitution relationship” with Hayes, who was married and a father of five, police said.
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