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A friend is giving new insight into the overdose death of a Georgia man who was connected to the woman who was allegedly responsible for the overdose death of a Google executive in California.
Milton Police are reopening the investigation into the death of popular club own Dean Riopelle, who died from a drug overdose in his suburban Atlanta home last September.
His ex-girlfriend, Alix Tichelman, is the admitted prostitute now accused in the overdose death of a Google executive.
The move to reopen the case came after interviews with Tichelman in California.
Police said she admitted to giving heroin to her boyfriend in Georgia before his death from an overdose.
Riopelle was owner of Masquerade, an Atlanta nightclub, and was also in a band.
In an interview with WSB-TV over the phone, bandmate Allen Vine said he had suspicions about his friend's death.
"I always thought he died of a heart attack. That's what his family was telling everybody. Of course when they got the toxicology report they were probably just as stunned as I am. There's no way that guy did heroin. No freaking way," Vine said.
Milton police said there was nothing suspicious at the time Riopelle died.
"I think my boyfriend overdosed or something. He won't respond," Tichelman can be heard saying on 911 recordings from the night Riopelle overdosed.
"'Is he awake?" the operator asked Tichelman.
"His eyes are open but no, he's not awake," Tichelman said.
Tichelman, a high-priced prostitute, is accused of intentionally injecting heroin into a Google executive and leaving him to die on his yacht.
Two months before, Tichelman made the 911 call, telling the dispatcher Riopelle's overdose was accidental and that he'd been drinking and taking painkillers.
"Why do you think it's an overdose?" the 911 operator asked Tichelman.
"Because there's nothing else it could be," Tichelman answered.
Milton police said they are going over videotaped interviews she gave to investigators in California, where Tichelman admitted to providing the drugs to Riopelle.
Meantime, Tichelman remains in a California jail on $1.5 million bail.
