Crime & Safety
Milton Reopens Death Investigation Involving Georgia Prostitute
Milton police will revisit the death of Dean Riopelle, who was found unconscious in his home by Alix Catherine Tichelman. Tichelman faces manslaughter charges for injecting Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes with heroin and leaving him to die.
The Milton Police Department has announced it will reopen an investigation into a death of a business owner who once dated the high-priced prostitute charged with manslaughter in California.
Capt. Shawn McCarty with the Milton Police Department told WSB-TV that the agency will review the death of Dean Riopelle, who was reportedly found unconscious in his home by Alix Catherine Tichelman.
Santa Cruz, CA, police have charged Tichelman, 26, who lives in Atlanta, with manslaughter for allegedly injecting Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes with heroin and leaving him to die.
Tichelman was dating Riopelle at the time of his death, which the Fulton County Medical Examiner determined was due to an overdose of heroin, oxycodone and alcohol, WSB reports.
Riopelle was the owner of Atlanta music venue The Masquerade and died in September 2013 — just two months before police say Tichelman injected Hayes with the fatal dose of heroin.
Authorities say Tichelman gave Hayes with heroin and he overdosed, but she reportedly did nothing to help him. Instead, they say, she drank a glass of wine, collected evidence, and left the boat. Hayes was found dead the next morning, Nov. 23, by the boat's captain.
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