Anyone else tripping out on this story? It's got everything. Huge wealth. Illicit sex. Murder and intrigue. Illicit drug.
It's hard to discuss a news story with no news to go on.
Which is against TER policy. Try googling "Santa Cruz prostitute murders executive"
I see "real" names all the time in the links provided over there.
The young lady in question and I were roommates for two years at boarding school...
She was cold hearted and mean then... this doesn't surprise me at all.
I am very sorry for the deceased's family's loss.
I dont know whether the drugs were forced but if not It may not be all her fault! Simply put Drugs are dangerous and bad!
Death it is the most logical outcome to injecting heroin. Use it... and prepare to die.
What if the tape shows the guy conscious and awake, allowing the girl shooting the drug into his vein?
I guess you could still be guilty of manslaughter, but I doubt the dope had an FDA warning.
Who ever knew heroin was bad for you
Bliss
You certainly bring up a valid point the defense will raise - that he consented to the injection. However, the video apparently shows him in medical distress and her doing nothing. The prosecution will argue that, because she gave him the injection (and, presumably, prepared the injection), she had a duty to give him aid and did not.
If she took anything of value from the yacht, or attempted to cover up evidence of her presence (which, given the fact that she missed cameras located ALL OVER THE YACHT would be comical if it weren't so tragic), then you have another level of act, as hinted by the sheriff: second-degree murder. First-degree, of course, involves premeditation, which may yet still be shown (for example, if it can be shown she went there for the purpose of killing him via heroin), while second-degree involves gross negligence where you know or should know that bodily harm or death will result. Again, if she's been giving him injections, and knows that such injections could kill, they could charge second-degree.
And I nearly choked when I read how he was a 'loving husband and father' - not sure the Mrs. really would share that opinion at this point
I'm guessing there will be a plea to voluntary manslaughter.
how do you know he showed signs of distress?
Can the tape/s be used as evidence, if the accused was unaware there were cameras?
If she took anything of value from the yacht, or attempted to cover up evidence of her presence (which, given the fact that she missed cameras located ALL OVER THE YACHT would be comical if it weren't so tragic), then you have another level of act, as hinted by the sheriff: second-degree murder. First-degree, of course, involves premeditation, which may yet still be shown (for example, if it can be shown she went there for the purpose of killing him via heroin), while second-degree involves gross negligence where you know or should know that bodily harm or death will result. Again, if she's been giving him injections, and knows that such injections could kill, they could charge second-degree.
And I nearly choked when I read how he was a 'loving husband and father' - not sure the Mrs. really would share that opinion at this point.
Happens all the time, particularly in convenience store holdups, ATM thefts, etc. A business should (and in many jurisdictions, must) have a sign informing patrons they're being videotaped, but a private residence (and a yacht qualifies) does not have to have such a sign (and in reality, there are a number of occasions where you see a sign saying 'premises under video surveillance' and a camera nearby, but it's not actually hooked up to anything, just set up to look that way).
The problem with the video evidence - where a defense lawyer might get some wiggle room - is authentication. If the Mrs. was on the yacht, she could probably testify that the angle of the video was the same as a camera placed in such-and-such a place on the yacht, etc. But a number of cases have been won against red light cameras on authentication issues, and a good defense lawyer would probably try to use the same logic. Lack of consent to being videotaped might work, but I doubt it in this case.
As to the distress issue, it was mentioned by the Sheriff in one of the articles I read. It would also support the manslaughter charge - they would need to show the killing was unlawful and without malice (the legal definition is "the unlawful killing of another without malice"). She should have been charged with involuntary manslaughter (defined as a killing without malice "in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to a felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner or without due caution or circumspection.") If the state can show malice, but not premeditation, then that would be second-degree murder.
Just google "most dangerous drugs ranking" and you'll see heroin at or near the top of every list. But when a person is rich and running low on new thrills, it must seem appealing.
she brought it, mixed it, injected it, watched him collapse, convulse, then stepped over him like a dying insect, drank her wine, took her stuff and closed her shades on the way out - not a call to 911 to save his life -
I hope she never leaves the shittiest shit hole prison on this planet and is made to suffer every day there by the most dangerous and disgusting people imaginable.
He had a family - 4 or 5 children and didn't deserve or earn this outcome, just because of being injected by a dangerous drug, that she delivered -
This girl was heartless for abandoning this guy when he was in distress and that certainly contributed to his death, but I don't think it's 'murder'.
I've often wondered what would happen should have a heart attack or something while seeing a provider. I just would hope I don't live thru it, because if I did, my SO would kill me anyway.
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she's now being investigated for possibly killing her BF in Atlanta, who also died of H overdose, with her in the same place, and a history of violence between them. She had been charged with assaulting her BF, then he ends up dead of an H overdose and, now her client in CA dies the same way, with her calmly drinking her wine, stepping over the body and the closing the shades.
In my view, she's a killer at worst and a deranged psychopath with an indifference to life at best.
I think I'm falling for her.
In my view, she's a killer at worst and a deranged psychopath with an indifference to life at best.
agree he was 51 not 10
who cares..
sad is seeing Children dying over the world starving with no hopes..
or 5 years OID dying in crack... BUT WHO CARES to comment about them rigth..??
THE MIDIA only comments what sells to the pubic
so everybody become zombie
on her twitter page she tweets about death and violence and talks about how "dexter" is her favorite show and that she is about a serial killer.
their will be a "movie" made out of this.
Loll rua turtle... true and funny
Probably ..be a movie ..
I taugth this subject
Drugs sex and rock roll was overrated..
I am sure holly we do some great drama pop corn movie cliche
To sell
To the "public"
Cc
boyfriend serving 20 years in Georgia for the death of a woman he injected. Crazy .....
I thought that her bf was the one who had died in a similar circumstance and that they were now reopening that case to look a her for it...
but maybe I got my info wrong..
"In a striking happenstance, Tichelman also appears to have once dated a man now imprisoned in a deadly heroin overdose.
Warren Ullom, lead singer of Atlanta-based band The Judies, was convicted in 2010 of voluntary manslaughter stemming from an instance where he was with a 32-year-old woman who took a lethal dose of heroin. Prosecutors say he refused to call 911 and instead summoned his cocaine dealer and tried to revive her by twice injecting her with cocaine, even planting cocaine in the woman's purse after she was taken away in an ambulance."
See link
1. Don't do heroin.
2. Think twice about seeing a provider who looks like she wants to be Marilyn Manson.
3. Don't do heroin with a provider who looks like she wants to be Marilyn Manson.
He looks like he wants to be a provider.