The alleged call girl accused of injecting a Google executive with a lethal dose of heroin aboard his yacht pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges today.
Alex Tichelman, 26, appeared in court in a red jumpsuit and shackled for her arraignment on manslaughter, drug and prostitution charges for her alleged role in the death of Google employee Forrest Hayes, 51, in November 2013.
According to police, a surveillance video showed her injecting Hayes with a needle and then, when he became unresponsive, stepping over his body on the floor to leave without ever calling for help.
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Hayes was a former Apple employee and had five children.
Tichelman's attorney, Larry Biggam, said in a statement after court that he did not believe it was an intentional crime.
Police said they discovered the surveillance video in recent weeks and arrested Tichelman July 4. In the days before her arrest, she had ostensibly written about killing sprees on her Facebook page, including that it was 'really nice to talk with someone about killing sprees and murdering people in cold blood...and they love it too.'
'No judgement [sic]. Yay!' she wrote. 'F*** all of that positivity bulls***. Take a look around you. Life is hard and then you die.'
Hayes' family did not appear in court. Tichelman's mother, father and sister did appear but did not comment on the case.
Entities 0 Name: Google Count: 2 1 Name: Hayes Count: 2 2 Name: Forrest Hayes Count: 1 3 Name: Apple Count: 1 4 Name: Die Hayes Count: 1 5 Name: Alex Tichelman Count: 1 6 Name: Larry Biggam Count: 1 7 Name: Google Exec With Heroin Count: 1 8 Name: Google Exec Wrote Facebook Post Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1ynyfBz Title: Escort in Google exec death long abused drugs, ex-housemate says Description: Alix Catherine Tichelman, who police say administered a fatal heroin dose to a Google executive who regularly paid her for sex, had a drug problem that had likely blossomed into full-scale addiction, a former housemate says. The state of California is preparing to formally charge Tichelman, 26, for the death of 51-year-old Forrest Timothy Hayes on his yacht in a Santa Cruz, Calif.
