Meet the tattooed beauty charged in death of Google executive Forrest Hayes. It all started on this boat the night of Nov. 22, 2013, when Forrest Hayes, a 51-year-old Google executive, met Alix Tichelman, a then-26-year-old aspiring model and makeup artist, on his 46-foot- yacht, “Escape.”
Forrest Hayes
The next morning, Hayes was found dead from an apparent heroin overdose. Police noticed two used wine glasses in the cabin. Their conclusion? Someone else must have been there.
Alix Tichelman
After obtaining security footage from the yacht, police discover that indeed, Hayes had been with someone else that night. That woman was Alix Tichelman.
Young Alix
Tichelman spent the early years of her childhood in Canada. She is pictured in her soccer uniform.
Forrest Hayes’ H.S. photo
Hayes grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, right outside of Detroit. After graduating from the University of Michigan – Dearborn, he took a job working for Ford Motor Company.
Alix Tichelman at Hyde School
As a teenager, Tichelman spent some months at the Hyde School in Bath, Maine. This scrapbook page was given to “48 Hours” by a roommate during her time at the school. The caption in the photo reads: “look at the cuts on her arm.”
Tichelman’s teen years
Friends say Alix Tichelman began using drugs as a teenager. She would eventually leave Hyde School and attend several other public and private schools. This is 14-year-old Alix in her passport photo.
The Tichelman family
Bart and Leslieann Tichelman, Alix’s parents, are pictured after Bart won a major 2008 poker event. Reports say he won more than $400,000. In her early teens, the family moved from Canada to a suburb of Atlanta.
Hayes’ Santa Cruz home
Hayes moved to California to pursue a career in technology. He held high-level positions at Sun Microsystems, Apple and Google, where he worked at the company’s most secret division, Google X. He lived in a $3 million mansion in Santa Cruz — an hour-long commute from his job at Google.
