Call Girl Under Investigation By Milton Police Pleads Guilty In Overdose Death

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The woman charged in connection to the overdose death of a Google executive in California has pleaded guilty.

Alix Tichelman on Tuesday accepted a deal from prosecutors to plead guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs, according to NBC News.

A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge sentenced Tichelman, 27, to six years in prison.

Defense attorney Lawrence Biggam said his client will serve her sentence in the county jail and due to the time already served and how the sentence was calculated, Tichelman is set to only serve three years -- one of which she’s completed.

Santa Cruz, Calif., police in 2014 charged Tichelman with manslaughter for injecting Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes, 51, with heroin and leaving him to die.

Authorities say Tichelman injected 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, 2013, by the boat’s captain.

Following Tichelman’s arrest, the Milton Police Department reopened an investigation into the death of Dean Riopelle, who was reportedly found unconscious in his home by Tichelman, Capt. Shawn McCarty previously told WSB-TV.

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.

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