26 year-old Alix Tichelman, described by the Police as a high-end call girl, is believed to be the woman in the video injecting Forrest Hayes withsubstance suspected to be heroin during a date together in November 2013.
According to Santa Cruz Police, officers posed as a potential client and met up with Tichelman in a hotel on July 4 and arrested her.
She appeared in court today on manslaughter and drugs charges but did not enter a plea. Tichelman is being held on $1.5 million bail.
Initially it was thought that Hayes, who had worked at Apple and was employed by Google at the time of his death, died of an overdose on his yacht, "The Escape."
How Tichelman was uncovered:
The newly uncovered surveillance video shows a woman, who Santa Cruz police say is Tichelman, administering the drugs and never trying to help Hayes or to call authorities when it was clear something had gone terribly wrong, Deputy Chief Steve Clark said.
"She was so callous that in gathering her things, she was literally stepping over the body and at one point stepped over the body to grab a glass of wine and finish the glass of wine," Clark told KGO-TV.
Investigators took Tichelman's fingerprints from the wine glass, according to KGO-TV.
An obituary posted in the Santa Cruz Sentinel describes Hayes as a husband and father to five children.
"More than anything else he enjoyed spending time with his family at home and on his boat," the obituary said. "His brilliant mind, contagious smile, and warm embrace will be missed and cherished in memories by his friends and family." The obituary read.
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