Prostitute gave Google exec a fatal heroin dose, police say

[NaturalHigh]

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Police called it murder. A married Google executive and a high-priced call girl allegedly had an encounter in November on a Santa Cruz yacht that left the executive dead from a heroin overdose.

But as the case came to light Wednesday and made national headlines, Santa Cruz County prosecutors charged the purported prostitute, Alix Catherine Tichelman of Folsom (Sacramento County), with manslaughter.

The move suggested they don't believe they can prove an intent to kill, even though authorities say Tichelman was caught on video injecting her client with heroin, stepping over him as he fell unconscious, finishing a glass of wine, and closing the boat's blinds before slipping away.

Tichelman, 26, had been arrested Friday after police lured her to the Santa Cruz area by posing as a customer and offering her $1,000 for sex, authorities said.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Suspected-hooker-s-alleged-heroin-victim-was-5609169.php

Self-edit to add:

Of course this young lady is presumed innocent until proven otherwise in court. I have no idea what other evidence will eventually come out that might exonerate or further incriminate her.

[EX500rider]

1. I assume he asked her to shoot him up?

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Bad dose or over dose i wonder?
You would think a Google exe. would have more sense then to get hooked to smack..wonder if he started on pills and worked his way up..(or down)
She looks pretty evil in the 4th pic wearing the red prison clothes in court i assume.

[davidn3600]

3. She writes some pretty disturbing stuff on facebook...

Alix Tichelman wrote on June 28 that it was "really nice to talk with someone about killing sprees and murdering people in cold blood...and they love it too."

"No judgement. Yay!” she wrote. “F*** all of that positivity bulls***. Take a look around you. Life is hard and then you die."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/call-girl-accused-death-google-exec-wrote-facebook/story?id=24490129

[NaturalHigh]

9. That would be my assumption.

This is just a guess - no evidence to back this up - the guy probably wasn't an addict and probably had very little tolerance. He asked her to hook him up, and she did so with too much or maybe just too potent a dose. I'm sure it was accidental, but it's probably still manslaughter since she caused his death by her illegal actions.

[nomorenomore08]

36. Should be involuntary manslaughter at most, unless I'm missing something.

Like the woman who "killed" Belushi, she'll probably serve a short prison sentence.

[Iggo]

15. "You would think a Google exe. would have more sense..."

Rich people think they're invincible.

[CBGLuthier]

21. Gee, I would hope any and every human being would have the sense not to get hooked.

But damn they keep on doing it don't they. I like your casting a woman as EVIL because some asswipe asked her to shoot him up like the whole John Belushi thing. These idiot/addicts of the famous ilk are declared more valuable than the prostitutes they hang out with for some reason that thoroughly escapes me.

[NaturalHigh]

22. Huh? I think you are misunderstanding his post.

He wasn't blaming her at all. In fact, he said that the guy probably asked her to give him the shot.

"She looks pretty evil in the 4th pic wearing the red prison clothes in court i assume."

He's referring to her picture in court, which really is pretty spooky.

[EX500rider]

23. I didn't cast her as evil, she did...

....somebody overdoses and you LEAVE instead of calling 911 is evil in my book. YMMV

[CBGLuthier]

27. "She looks pretty evil in the 4th pic", YOU said

You did not what??

[EX500rider]

29. I did say that and a also think stepping over someone to close the curtains,

drink a glass of wine and leave while they die IS evil. ymmv

[snooper2]

4. so is a Google Exec. a middle level mgr, Director, Sr. Director, VP, Senior VP, Exec. VP,

come on reporter dudette/dude

[octoberlib]

7. I found this.

On the surface, Hayes seems the model Silicon Valley success. Married for 17 years to his wife, Denise, and the father of five children, Hayes started his working life in his native Michigan in the automotive industry before segueing into tech.

There, his résumé includes polished nameplates such as Sun Microsystems and then Apple, where he was senior director of worldwide operations. That led to a post at Google X, the search engine giant's division that is focused on "moon shot" programs, such as the self-driving car and Google Glass. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/09/google-exec-hayes-killed-by-call-girl/12422797/

[angstlessk]

5. Let me see, did the rich guy intice the prostitute or did the prostitute intice the rich guy

Was it the prostitutes Yacht? Who bought the heroine?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. My girlfriend knew this guy professionally

She had been emailed the obituary and heard he died of a heart attack, the murdered by goth hooker story came as a bit of a surprise.

[NaturalHigh]

10. Did she consider him a nice guy?

I would imagine it's pretty shocking to find out that someone you knew died in such a strange manner.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. I'm not sure whether or not you mean "nice guy" in DU speak or not...

She has been working in this world for more than twenty years and says that prostitutes and mistresses never surprise her (for the women it's yoga instructors and personal trainers). People with lots of money, but little time and often dubious social skills.

The hard drugs though are apparently really unusual. She has rarely seen cocaine and never street drugs.

[NaturalHigh]

20. I was just wondering if she had a personal impression of him.

Some of the people close to him are acting shocked at the whole hooker and heroin thing, but I wouldn't really expect his friends to come out and say that they knew about his personal secrets, especially if they knew his family too.

[R B Garr]

8. High risk behavior is high risk.

It sounds like she's shot people up and stepped over their bodies before. This one just happened to die.

I imagine she wouldn't be too popular in the pay-for-play world if she called for "help" over everyone who passed out after their sex and drug trysts. She wasn't hired as a nurse for the night.

[NaturalHigh]

11. I don't doubt that everything you wrote in that post is true.

I doubt that any of it is a legal defense in a manslaughter case, though. Just my two cents...

[R B Garr]

38. Definitely agreed that it's no defense for manslaughter. My remarks were mostly

in response to the comment by the police detective in the video, who was insinuating that she just left him there. What else do prostitutes do? They are paid to show up and leave and keep it secret. Maybe she didn't realize he was in distress...? She was hired for sex and drugs, not as a nanny to tuck him in bed and kiss him goodnight. It's a cold-blooded business and she acted cold-blooded.

But now there was another man in her past who died from an overdose?

[NaturalHigh]

40. Yes - in her RECENT past.

"She was hired for sex and drugs, not as a nanny to tuck him in bed and kiss him goodnight."

Well, you never know. After all that, he might WANT to be tucked in and kissed goodnight. Not sure what all is included in the package he ordered.

[dilby]

13. Manslaughter sounds pretty legit for what happened.

She could have called for help to save his life instead of walking off.

[Baclava]

14. she's got those helter skelter eyes - guilty!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. I wonder if she is one of Charles Manson's penpal groupies?

That is one terrifying gaze.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Lily Munster without the charm?

[NaturalHigh]

31. I always thought Morticia Addams had more charm than Lily.

[d_r]

32. terrifying gaze or glaze? nt

[NaturalHigh]

19. Yeah, that's a spooky picture.

She could be an extra in True Blood or something.

[Baclava]

25. We humans are visual cratures, they say - i notice things like this

I call it a gift

[Kaleva]

33. She looks like she's hunting. Has predator eyes.

[NaturalHigh]

35. No doubt.

With a set of fangs, she would seriously be great in a vampire flick.

[tblue37]

34. My first quick glance at this pic was confusing. It looked

as though her lawyer was injecting her with something!

[NaturalHigh]

18. Now she is apparently being investigated for another death.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/10/justice/prostitute-yacht-killing/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

(CNN) -- The death of a Google executive on a yacht is raising new questions about the death of a nightclub owner on the other side of the country -- because of the possible role an alleged prostitute played in each case.

Two months before Hayes died, Dean Riopelle, whom Tichelman identified online as her boyfriend, died at his home in Milton, Georgia. Tichelman was there at the time, and she called 911.

"Her story was: She was in the shower, heard a large crash, and then found him unconscious on the floor," Capt. Shawn McCarty of Milton police told CNN Thursday.

"I think my boyfriend overdosed or something, he, like, he won't respond," she said in the brief call, shortly before hanging up.

[HooptieWagon]

28. Black Widow?

I have a hunch some more deaths will be tied to her.

[NaturalHigh]

30. At the very least, there will be more investigations.

[nomorenomore08]

37. I didn't know about this. Now I'm more inclined to see her as having malicious intent.

Once, completely by accident, I can believe. But twice in two months?

[NaturalHigh]

39. Yeah - if she actually had no intent to do harm...

then she is incredibly unlucky to have two men die on her in such a short period of time.

[davidn3600]

41. A lot of suspcious behavior too

Nothing that is a smoking gun by itself, but add everything up and you can see why the cops were suspecting some malicious intent.

[NaturalHigh]

42. I wonder how much evidence in Georgia...

will get admitted in California and vice-versa.

[EX500rider]

24. Well at least she called 911 that time!

[NaturalHigh]

26. You mean with the Georgia boyfriend?

Yeah, that was nice of her. Apparently by the time she got to California, she just couldn't be bothered. She did have time to gather her things and finish her wine, though.