Santa Cruz: A high-end prostitute accused of leaving a Google executive to die on his yacht after shooting him up with a fatal hit of heroin is scheduled to appear in a California courtroom on Wednesday to answer to manslaughter, drug and prostitution charges.
Alix Tichelman, 26, who's being held on $1.5 million bail, may also get a bail hearing on Wednesday at Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Surveillance footage from the yacht shows Tichelman gather her belongings, including the heroin and needles, casually step over Forrest Hayes' body to finish a glass of wine, clean up a counter, then lower a blind before leaving the yacht on Nov. 23, police said.
The 51-year-old father of five was found dead by the captain of his 50-foot (15-metre) yacht Escape the next day.
The case has prompted police in Milton, Georgia, to re-examine the overdose death of Tichelman's former boyfriend Dean Riopelle, 53, the owner of a popular Atlanta music venue. Police said a panicked Tichelman called police, saying her boyfriend had overdosed on something and wouldn't respond.
She wasn't charged in the case, and an autopsy report listed Riopelle's death as an accidental overdose of heroin, oxycodone and alcohol.
It is not clear how long Tichelman may have been involved in prostitution, though police in Santa Cruz say she had many clients in wealthy Silicon Valley.
Alix Tichelman, 26, who's being held on $1.5 million bail, may also get a bail hearing on Wednesday at Santa Cruz County Superior Court.
Surveillance footage from the yacht shows Tichelman gather her belongings, including the heroin and needles, casually step over Forrest Hayes' body to finish a glass of wine, clean up a counter, then lower a blind before leaving the yacht on Nov. 23, police said.
The case has prompted police in Milton, Georgia, to re-examine the overdose death of Tichelman's former boyfriend Dean Riopelle, 53, the owner of a popular Atlanta music venue. Police said a panicked Tichelman called police, saying her boyfriend had overdosed on something and wouldn't respond.
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It is not clear how long Tichelman may have been involved in prostitution, though police in Santa Cruz say she had many clients in wealthy Silicon Valley.
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