The death of a Google executive aboard his private yacht and the subsequent arrest of a high-end prostitute from metro Atlanta accused of giving him a fatal heroin injection will be featured on Saturday night’s episode of “48 Hours.”
Forest Hayes was a 51-year-old married father of five when he was found dead in November 2013 on his 46-foot yacht in the Santa Cruz, Calif., harbor. The yacht's surveillance cameras captured Hayes' last hours spent with Alix Tichelman, an aspiring model.
Hayes had met Tichelman through a dating service, according to police. The yacht's cameras were on as Tichelman injected Hayes, watched him fall unconscious, took a sip of wine and left without calling for police, investigators said. Tichelman was arrested by Santa Cruz police, and while being interviewed, she told detectives information about another heroin-overdose back in Georgia.
Two months before Hayes died aboard his yacht, Tichelman’s previous boyfriend died from an overdose.
Dean Riopelle, 53, was a divorced father of two, the owner of the Masquerade music club in Atlanta, and was known to some in the Milton area for his love of monkeys when he died Sept. 24. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office said Riopelle's death was the result of "heroin, Oxycodone and ethanol toxicity.
Tichelman was in Riopelle’s Milton home and called 911 after finding him unresponsive, but never told police about the drugs, Milton police later said. She is now being investigated in connection to Riopelle’s death, but has not been charged, police said.
The episode, "Kiss of Death and the Google Exec," will air at 10 p.m. Saturday on CBS.
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