Prostitute in Google exec case linked to death of boyfriend

Associated Press

MILTON, Ga.

Two months before police say a high-priced prostitute calmly left a Google executive dying from a heroin overdose on his yacht, the woman panicked on the phone with a 911 dispatcher as her boyfriend lay on the floor of their home in the throes of a fatal overdose.

Police said Thursday they are re-examining the death of Dean Riopelle, 53, the owner of a popular Atlanta music venue. Riopelle had been dating Alix Tichelman, who is now charged with manslaughter in the November death of Google executive Forrest Hayes.