"Gracious my God, she murdered another person," thought Kimberly James when she found out about the demise of Google official Forrest Hayes and the capture of Alix Tichelman. "That is the young lady who slaughtered my companion."
James has constantly pondered what part Tichelman may have played in the demise of her companion Riopelle. James says she recollects that him saying, "If anything transpires, Alix (Tichelman) did it."
Those words have frequented James since he passed on in September of 2013. That is when Tichelman called 9-1-1 to report a medication overdose and mischance at the club proprietor's home in Milton, GA, 30 miles from Atlanta.
After two months, powers say great security feature on board Hayes' yacht caught Tichelman infusing herself with heroin, then infusing Hayes. As he started to have an unfavorable response, she then assembled her things and left the scene without calling for help, coldly leaving Hayes to pass on.
"She was callous to the point that she truly ventured over the casualty's body to recover her glass of wine and completion her glass of wine as the casualty is laying there kicking the bucket at her feet," said Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark.
Police reported that Hayes and Tichelman appeared to have an on-going relationship. They likewise accept Tichelman managed the heroin with Hayes' assent.
Preceding Tichelman's court appearance today, Crimesider reached Tichelman's dad, a well off innovation official, who declined to remark.
Then, companions of Riopelle stay befuddled over his suspicious passing. They are additionally uneasy with the narrative of medication and liquor misuse that developed. So when the passing of the Google official got to be national news, they were horrified to discover that Tichelman was again at the scene.
"When I first heard that Dean passed on... I generally questioned the official variant," says James. "When I found out about the Google murder, I called the Milton PD and said, look, my companions and I suspected she (Tichelman) slaughtered Dean. You have to take a gander at our mobile phones and online networking records now."
In 2013, a therapeutic inspector at first led Riopelle's passing "coincidental." Milton Police Capt. Shawn McCarthy says the Santa Cruz case provoked Milton police to reevaluate Riopelle's case. "Both subjects in these cases passed on of heroin overdoses, so there are a few elements we need to take a gander at to verify that we didn't miss anything."
Khristina Brucker, who inhabited Riopelle's home for four months as a live-in babysitter and sitter to his youngsters, likewise questioned the circumstances of Riopelle's demise. She had never known him to drink liquor or do drugs.
Riopelle was the lead vocalist of the stone band the Impotent Sea Snakes, known for their sexually unequivocal verses and extraordinary stage exhibitions. Male band individuals wearing drag, ladies entertainers were frequently topless or naked and music was joined by S&M or subjugation themed exhibitions.
Companions said that Riopelle, a dipsomaniac, had been calm for a considerable length of time. James clarifies, Riopelle was a decent father, a fruitful agent, somebody who trained his child's games groups and provided for philanthropy.
"Dignitary was the most pleasant fellow," Brucker says. "He attempted to help Tichelman get clean. Individuals say he utilized her as a whore, yet I think he truly adored her."
Brucker had photos of herself and Tichelman posturing with Riopelle's guitars at the musical performer's home, yet the live-in babysitter did not coexist with her manager's better half for long.
Bruckner says Tichelman is "a standout amongst the most scheming and questionable individuals I have ever met. She put a break in that family that was practically hopeless. Dignitary's girl, I can let you know without a doubt have got a few genuine injury."
Brucker says she exited the occupation terrified with Tichelman's harsh treatment of Riopelle's girl. Brucker says she once saw Tichelman shout at his then-11-year-old girl, "On the off chance that you ever divide me and your dad, I will execute you, you bitch."
"Alix had real issues without medications, thus numerous all the more on medications. She was a dull individual," said the sitter, who told CBS News Tichelman additionally made demise dangers to her.
Atlanta photographic artist, John Diaz, met Tichelman taking pictures for her Model Mayhem site, a quite option site for models and on-screen characters.
The photographs acquired solely by Crimesider seem to demonstrate an alternate side to the insensitive figure police portray in the feature got from the yacht. Tichelman had different website pages loaded with pictures of herself posturing.
Obviously Tichelman met Google executive Hayes online through "a sugar daddy dating site." On one website, police say Tichelman bragged she had more than 200 customers telling up to $3,000 an occupation. Keeping in mind the end goal to capture Tichelman after the passing of Hayes, cops caught her in a prostitution sting acting like customers looking for administrations.
Photographic artist Diaz turned out to be immediately disappointed with Tichelman amid his shoots, asserting she was threatening, extremely basic, contentious, and mean. "She would spill her guts about her life, for example, auto issues, how she didn't coexist with Dean's family and companions, and how she knew Dean was going to wed her."
A last grotesque turn includes another ex of Tichelman's. He is doing a 20-year jail sentence for a shockingly comparable situation where he managed an overdose of heroin to a young lady he had as of late met and neglected to look for help for her as she passed on.
