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"Georgia authorities are re-examining the 2013 heroin death of a bar owner dating the woman charged in the overdose death of a Google executive on a yacht in California, police said Thursday. Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said that Tichelman had searched online for a legal defense before her arrest, looking up possible defense strategies.\nDean Riopelle, 53, died of a heroin overdose on Sept. 24, 2013, in Milton, Georgia, about two months before the Google executive, Forrest Hayes, died of an overdose on his yacht in California.\nMilton police Capt. Shawn McCarty said Thursday that Alix Tichelman, 26, called 911 on Sept. 17 to report that Riopelle, her boyfriend, had overdosed. She told investigators that he had been drinking and using heroin throughout the day, and that she found him on the ground after she got out of the shower. According to a police report, Tichelman said she tried to revive Riopelle for about five minutes before she called 911. She told police that he had been having a rough time but did not believe he overdosed intentionally.\nRiopelle died a week later.\nTichelman, who told police that she was a prostitute and boasted of 200 clients, was arrested on manslaughter charges seven months after she injected Hayes with a lethal dose of heroin. \nOn Sept. 6, just before Riopelle's death, Tichelman had been arrested on a battery charge after he told police that she bit his hand during an argument.\nRiopelle had said that she took pills before they went to a bar he owned in Atlanta, where she drank, dove off the stage and exposed her breasts. After they returned to his home, they fought. She scratched his face and threatened to hit herself in the face and tell police he had done it, Riopelle said at the time.\nIn the case in involving the Google executive, Tichelman allegedly watched Hayes, a 51-year-old married father of five, die on his luxury yacht. He was found dead on Nov. 24, 2013.\n\"She was so callous that she literally stepped over the victim's body to retrieve her glass of wine and finish the glass, as the victim is laying there dying at her feet,\" Clark, the police chief, said, regarding Hayes' death. \nHayes had recently started work at the secret innovation lab Google X after several years as an Apple executive. \nThe two met on SeekingArrangement.com, a website that pairs up wealthy older men with younger \"sugar babies.\" Tichelman and Hayes had an ongoing arrangement; they met around Thanksgiving of last year on his 50-foot yacht in Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor called Escape, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Tichelman supplied the heroin and injected Hayes with a lethal dose, police said. Tichelman's numerous selfies posted on Facebook expose her heavy tattoos, including \"Love Is Hell,\" which is inked on her breastbone. \n\nPost by Alix Tichelman.\nPolice said surveillance video from the boat shows that Tichelman did not call for help or provide first aid to Hayes as he overdosed. Instead, she walked around his body, sipping wine and collecting her heroin and needles, before closing the blinds on the yacht to hide his body, police said. The captain of the yacht found Hayes' body the next morning. \nInvestigators identified Tichelman from surveillance video on the yacht and found her fingerprints on the wine glass at the scene. They tracked her down in Folsom, California, about 167 miles from Santa Cruz, and lured her back there by posing as a high-end client willing to pay $1,000 for sex. On July 4, police arrested Tichelman in a luxury hotel in Santa Cruz County.\nWhen Tichelman appeared in court on Wednesday, wearing a red jumpsuit and handcuffs, she reportedly showed no emtoion. She did not enter a plea, was assigned a public defender and is being held in Santa Cruz jail on $1.5 million bail. \nAdditional reporting by the Associated Press\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=116628718381794&amp;xfbml=1&amp;status=1&amp;cookie=1\",\"facebook_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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