--- description: "She steps over the body, reaches over the table and finishes a glass of wine and then goes back about her business" title: Alix Tichelman: Prostitute Charged in Forrest Timothy Hayes Google Death image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd10469ef9c1294bf/69869b66adae444d0d5441d1/alix-tichelman.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Meet the Prostitute Charged in a Google Executive's Death by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 11, 2014 11:39 AM CUT  Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, confers with public defender Diane August as she faces manslaughter charges in Santa Cruz county Superior Court in Santa Cruz, Calif., July 9, 2014. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, confers with public defender Diane August as she faces manslaughter charges in Santa Cruz county Superior Court in Santa Cruz, Calif., July 9, 2014.Shmuel Thaler—Reuters by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 11, 2014 11:39 AM CUT Dead men appear to play a big role in Alix Tichelman’s life. Tichelman, 26, was being held on $1.5 million bail by authorities in Santa Cruz County, California, on manslaughter, drug and prostitution charges in the [death of Forrest Timothy Hayes](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/prostitute-murdered-google-exec-yacht-california-police-n151871 "undefined"), 51, a Google official who died of a heroin overdose on his 50-foot yacht in November. Santa Cruz police told NBC News that Tichelman, who was arrested July 4, injected the heroin into Hayes and can be seen on the yacht’s own security video calmly collecting her drugs and her needles, closing a blind to conceal the body from view and leaving. [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-exec-prostitute-silicon-valley-after-dark-n153241?cid=par-time-article%5F20140711 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2976100/alix-tichelman-forrest-timothy-hayes-google-prostitute-death/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2976100/alix-tichelman-forrest-timothy-hayes-google-prostitute-death/"},"headline":"Meet the Prostitute Charged in a Google Executive's Death","datePublished":"2014-07-11T11:39:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:45.202Z","description":"\"She steps over the body, reaches over the table and finishes a glass of wine and then goes back about her business\"","url":"https://time.com/2976100/alix-tichelman-forrest-timothy-hayes-google-prostitute-death/","keywords":["Tech","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd10469ef9c1294bf/69869b66adae444d0d5441d1/alix-tichelman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd10469ef9c1294bf/69869b66adae444d0d5441d1/alix-tichelman.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, confers with public defender Diane August as she faces manslaughter charges in Santa Cruz county Superior Court in Santa Cruz, Calif., July 9, 2014.","caption":"Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, confers with public defender Diane August as she faces manslaughter charges in Santa Cruz county Superior Court in Santa Cruz, Calif., July 9, 2014.","creditText":"Shmuel Thaler—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2976100/alix-tichelman-forrest-timothy-hayes-google-prostitute-death/","name":"Meet the Prostitute Charged in a Google Executive's Death"}}]}] ```