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real people real crimes real life [Music] drama Santa Cruz is a small coastal town
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in California it's at the Northern end of Monterey Bay it looks like paradise look at that beach look at these
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mountains breathe that air it's a place where the blind could go sightseeing and then in recent years
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it's become a place that's become more and more favored by the people over the hill in Silicon Valley that being the
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people with money Force Hayes started life in the midwest in Dearborn Michigan and he went
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out to Silicon Valley where everything was happening he was hired by Google he had five kids and then one day a friend
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of his emailed him a picture of a boat that was for sale and a couple days later he bought
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it the two things he loved were his family and being on his boat he called it Escape I think that some part of him
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really wanted to like taste that other side of life that kind of darker side Wilder more exotic side of
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life on the night of November 22nd 20 2013 Forest Hayes was on his yacht and he didn't come home that night and his
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wife became concerned and she called the captain they retained for this yacht and he went and he got on the boat
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and there's Forest Hayes lying there dead the detectives arrive and they start looking at the
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scene and it turned out he had in fact died of a heroin overdose there was a visible injection
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Mark in his arm but they don't see drugs but you do see two wine glasses detective 101 someone else has
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been there and the question is who at that point we realize that's our person that's who we're going after 157 time is
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88 what is the truth behind how Forest Hayes died how did he find himself in this situation in this position that
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took his life who was on that boat then they're looking around and they see there's cameras there was
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indeed somebody else there a very beautiful darkhaired woman they note that she has these
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tattoos and they also probably figured that Forest didn't meet her like you know at parent teacher night this
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is Alex tickman do you think Alex tickle knew the forest Haze was dying right there in
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front of her I don't see how she didn't know detectives then discovered that this was not the first time Alex tickman
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had been with somebody who died of a drug overdose is this woman a coldblooded killer she certainly was
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cold [Music] I'm Moren mahard tonight on 48 Hours kiss of death and the Google exec
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[Music] [Music] when he's not out looking for the big wave there's a big story that has
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consumed Steven Baxter a reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel and a 48 Hours consultant the mysterious death of
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Google executive Forest Hayes at the city's sprawling Arena Forest Hayes was 51 years old he
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lived in a pretty uppercrust neighborhood he was a pretty high-powered guy and obviously had a lot
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of assets I mean he lived in a $3 million house in Santa Cruz in 2013 one of the boats docked in Santa Cruz Harbor
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was this Majestic 46t long yacht called The Escape it belong to Google executive
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Forest Hayes not surprisingly the tech exec outfitted his boat with some of the most expensive tech gear out there about
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$200,000 worth including a sophisticated Security System complete with high def cameras inside hay spared no expense on
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Creature Comforts including a leather ceiling and an $88,000 captain's chair I think he was practical and
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imaginative at the same time the Google executive's death caught the attention of Michael daily he's an investigative
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reporter for The Daily Beast in New York and also a 48 Hours consultant Forest hay started in his native Michigan
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working at the Ford Motor Company he went to California for sun Micro Systems and he went on to Apple and then he went
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on to Google for a high-paying job at their top secret location where impossible Dreams Are transformed into
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reality it was hard to work in Google X which they call their moonshot Factory you know the most extreme wildest
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imaginative farthest reaching ideas they could have you like Google Glasses self-driving cars he was the guy who was
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actually going to make some of these things happen a place so secretive that colleagues from Google X refus to
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divulge exactly what Hayes did there to get away from the pressures of work Forest Hayes would head to the
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marina and on to his prized possession one of the larger boats in the harbor I think that's fair to say
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what police would eventually discover was Hayes the married father of five had a secret leaon she was a young
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and exotic dark-haired woman covered with very distinctive tattoos and she would be the last person to see fors
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Hayes alive hay body was found lying here in the main cabin the captain immediately
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called 911 but surprisingly it would take months before the Google executive's death made headlines there
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was no um really report of his death obviously the police in this case were trying to keep that Under Wraps as they
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investigated Santa Cruz Deputy police chief Steve Clark 122 Clark has been on this case since day one the media is
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going to want to know right off the bat who is it who's responsible is this a homicide is this a murder we didn't have
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enough to really even put that out we were busy building the case which wasn't easy despite some initial crime scene
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Clues there were two wine glasses there uh both which appeared to have been used
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investigators zeroed in on Hayes's cell phone launching an exhaustive digital search then a stunning discovery
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Hayes had a profile page on a dating website called seekingarrangement.com it would be a
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critical clue in learning the identity of that mystery tattooed woman it was just a few days before Thanksgiving
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2013 what happened that night was recorded by the boat's video cameras this camera imp particular caught the
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very last moments of ha's life in chilling detail initially we were told that the video
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wasn't available from that particular camera that actually showed the cabin of the boat there was indeed video uh that
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was uploaded to a Cloud Server and video from that camera was indeed available that was one of those moments where you
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feel like you know it was fourth and one and you got a first down actually it took 3 months and a court order for
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detectives to get their hands on that video and when they did it was explosive that video was shocking to me what do
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you see on this video well the video is everything the video is the case police have yet to release the
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video but described in detail to 48 Hours exactly what they say happened that night between the couple
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essentially it was a party for Two drugs included they greet each other uh a quick hug just a quick Embrace uh you
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can see that they're engaged in conversation but there's no audio and then eventually she uh gets to the point
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where she starts to prepare drugs for injection she brought all of the equipment with her she brought the drugs
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with her as police would learn the drug of choice that night was heroin we see her prepare uh the syringe um we see her
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it looks like she's injecting herself but her backs to the camera he watches this happen and then she eventually uh
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injects him [Music] do you feel like at any point when you're watching the video that this is a
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guy who is afraid and doesn't want to do this I get the impression he's nervous he's uncertain um but he's going along
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with it and what happens then almost immediately he starts to go into distress at some point she comes to him
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and it looks like she tries to revive him a bit by pass patting him on the face and talking to him holding his head
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as he slumped forward on the chair and you or I if we found ourselves in that situation would have been on the
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phone to 911 saying oh my gosh something Terrible's happened we need help and she
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does none of that instead Clark says the video shows the woman trying to remove any evidence that she was ever there
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wiping fingerprints and cleaning up her drug paraphernalia while he slumped over
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on the floor while he's on the floor she's stepping over him she is literally walking around the cabin of the boat
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stepping over him uh grabbing her glass of wine carrying it around the boat cabin with her Clark says that portion
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of the video with Haze on the floor of the cabin goes on for seven minutes and that seven minutes that uh emergency
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medical personnel could have been there could have done something and could have
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reacted to this situation to save Mr Hay's life but instead she does nothing nothing to call for help or to fix this
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you know and that's that's the Crux of the case armed with that video police hit Pay Dirt they were able to match the
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woman with those distinctive tattoos to a profile on the dating website hay had used she was a 26-year-old aspiring
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model her name Alex tickl [Music] [Music] man the wealthy Google executive found
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the Exotic Beauty in a somewhat secret world where real names are rarely used technically Alex tickman and Forest
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Hayes met here in Las Vegas not at an upscale Casino or a fancy hotel lobby bar but rather through an online website
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which is headquartered just a Stones Throw from the strip and as 48 Hours discovered it's not your typical dating
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website what year did you start seeking Arrangement it was started in 2006 from a bedroom uh in San Francisco actually
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it may have the look and feel of a startup but with nearly 4 million members worldwide this is big business
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what is seeking Arrangement seeking arrangement.com is a sugar daddy dating website so we match wealthy guys and
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girls looking to pimper and spoil and of course younger men and women looking to
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meet those wealthy people CEO Brandon Wade a boyish 43-year-old says he's become a
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multi-millionaire from all the arranging he's been doing a seeking arrangement about arranging sexual relationships for
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money it is about finding romance and passion I'm Unapologetic about the fact that sex is involved in a romantic
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relationship and money is involved in a romantic relationship but that doesn't make the Romantic relationship
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prostitution Deputy police chief Steve Clark the point man in the Hayes death case strongly disagrees it doesn't take
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a Sherlock Holmes to take a look at that website and figure out exactly what was
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going on there the titles of the individuals are sugar babies and sugar daddies there's no innocent connotation
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there behind any of that what is budget that's what he's willing to spend that's
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his sort of Lifestyle so it could be going out for dinners paying for that going on trips okay so does a woman
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think you're going to spend $3,000 on me a sugar baby thinks you're going to spend yeah on the relationship okay yeah
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Wade is proud that his membership ranks include employees of leading Fortune 500
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companies including he says from Google was Forest Hayes a typical client of yours I would say he is uh an average
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client of ours married Tech executive looking for some sort of arrangement yep 40% of the guys I
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married it's unknown if Hayes was fulfilling the quote expectations unquote of any sugar baby's lifestyle
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requests which range from a th000 to over $10,000 in monthly sugar daddy gifts can you tell us anything about Alex
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tickl man's profile on seeking Arrangement well the only thing I can say is that it looked like any other
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normal profile so it was approved and there was no indication that she was soliciting money for sex at least not
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with that profile after Hayes's death investigators began tracking Alex tickman on social media fearing she
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might leave town they hatched a plan to catch her using seekingarrangement.com reporter Steven
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Baxter when she posted on Facebook something to the effect of I plan to go back to Georgia that's when they decided
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to really go in and pursue her on the same website Just the Way Forest had and POS as a John and lure her back to Santa
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Cruz we started seeing chatter from her that indicated she was either going to move out of the country or out of the
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state now there's a clock on this cuz she's about to head south so they do kind of a classic sting we sold out our
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detective and made him set up a profile under a different identity and made up a
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whole story about him we then posted that out there and we reached out to Alex tickman through seeking Arrangement
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Cod named Sebastian that detective began emailing and texting with tickman hoping
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for a rendevu eventually we convinced her to come down and meet with us or and agreed
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upon arrangement for sex for prostitution and um and for a sum of money police deposited some money
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several hundred into her bank account with a promise of at least $1,000 upon arrival and everything else this did not
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appear to you that this was the first time she had negotiated such a situation No in fact uh she kind of called us out
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called us a cheap skate uh told us that you know many of our clients pay uh twice that eight months after the death
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of four Hayes Alex tickman once again showed up in Santa Cruz County this time at the secluded Resort behind me once
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again she came with heroin in her bag expecting to hook up with a sugar daddy from seeking Arrangement and once again
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it did not go as planned when you said we're the cops and we're the ones you've been communicating with what was her
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reaction oh she uh she cried she paned that's that's when we saw Panic 26 6-year-old Alex tickman was
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stunned police arrested her for prostitution and charged her in the death of forest Hayes this was a crime
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this wasn't just some accident going toai Mr hay is a victim of the murder committed by Alex tickman or was he what
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happened that night say Alex's Defenders is much more complicated [Music] for me I mean she was somebody
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completely different perhaps no one was more surprised by the arrest of Alex tickman
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than struggling musician Chad Cornell he was in love with her when I first saw her you know I couldn't help
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but to say something she has a very darker style you I just thought she was really beautiful almost like the you
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know Angelina Jolie kind of look Chad had no idea how dark her life really was did you believe she was
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falling in love with you I didn't Chad thought his girlfriend was a model there were countless Imes a
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swimsuit commercial and a makeup tutorial she did online she going to apply liberally pretty pretty pretty okay and
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as far as Chad could tell she was always answering modeling calls she get all dolled up and go to a photo
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shoot she usually make about a TH or so when she go out to these modeling shoots so imagine how he felt fell to
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learn months later that his beloved girlfriend was now being accused of doing something altogether different for
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all that money I got the text with the news link on it and kind of just fell over on the
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couch like in shock the woman he once thought he'd spend the rest of his life with was now
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not only charged with prostitution but also in the death of Google executive Forest Hayes what what
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are you thinking this is a woman you were in love with yeah I mean obviously I was devastated you know I turned white
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as the news sank in to his complete amazement Chad realized that just hours before Alex met up with Forest on that
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fateful night she was with him we were hanging out that day actually and um she told me that some of her longtime high
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school friends were in Santa Cruz and had a boat and she had planned to go hang out with them and later on that
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night she actually woke me up out of bed with a phone call she's you know really
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frantic on the phone um she sounded very upset what was she talking about um she
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talked about how her friends had started doing heroin and a bunch of hardcore drugs on the boat and made her
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uncomfortable and that um that she had to leave but do you believed on that call that she sounded genuinely upset
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crying sniffling I I mean upset upset because the truth he now knows was much worse and it's left him wondering
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whether he ever really knew who Alex was who is Alex tickman right who is she reporter Michael Dy did what police
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investigators did and using the tools of forest's employer he Googled her this the police discovered was Alex Tick's
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Twitter account calling herself AK Kennedy double x One X short of triple XX baddest model stylist Hustler
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exotic dancer those are her words these are the pictures to go with the words this has the Charming inscription to
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death do us part he might start believing Less in coincidence on seeing that but to daily Alex's postings looked
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more like someone trying to create an image rather than someone obsessed with killing that's because he came across
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this photo my beautiful mother and I out to lunch no makeup face and this is a a
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young woman who wants to be with Mom Alex posted it just months before her arrest for forest's death what makes you
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think that there's a fuller story so how did it come to this childhood pictures show a cute blonde
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tomboy who appeared to have all the advantages in life growing up with her sister Monica who who would become an
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investment counselor her mother leslianne and her father Bart a CEO for a technology company and a pretty good
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poker player and he at one point found himself playing with some of the best poker players in the world and he won
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like $400,000 Alex spent her early teens in an Atlanta suburb where she played Sports and won writing
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Awards her friends say that she's very smart very deep but also very troubled her experiences with boys were
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not always happy ones and she had Eating Disorders she was taking [Music] drugs desperate her parents went looking
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for help and located a school that they thought would give her special attention so they found this place
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called the hide School in Maine we are in Maine in route to Hyde Megan was a student at the Hyde school where
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Alex spent a few months I can feel like pressure in my chest it's nerve-wracking she asked us
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not to use her last name but agreed to travel back to the high school campus I want people to see this very pivotal
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part of her life that I feel probably affected her at a very huge point in her development why she is who she is so do
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you remember when you when you first met Alex do you happen to remember the very
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first time you saw her 100% she was gorgeous and she was very awkward the cute blonde girl next door was long gone
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she barely ate she was very skinny she was real thin she was emotionally kind of closed off I I
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think the big question then is why what had happened to her I don't know the truth to that um she never really told
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me there was a specific Catalyst but Megan says Alex did hint at some traumatic events we talked about the
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fact that we had issues trusting men um we had become numb to a lot of things Alex had started cutting herself
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this is a photo of Alex her then bunkmate put in a scrapbook it reads psycho roomy look at the cuts on her
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arm Alex tickman was actually the first person that I met who did that Ashley Kent lived in Alex's dorm she came to
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the school with the scars she had already etched things into her arm and she had already made this image of
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herself as this like Devil person like she that's how she dressed kind of like double worshipper but was that really
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who Alex was she was actually a really nice girl um it was very much like a front that she was putting on an image
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Megan noticed it too once you bypass those walls she was just a normal girl who who was scared and what was she
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scared of I think herself honestly I mean we all we didn't know who we were we had had resorted to things that you
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know not every person chooses we' had been in trouble and at Hyde it seemed Alex was always in trouble Megan says
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they punished her you're forced to do manual labor physical labor they basically tell you what you can and
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can't do this is the area Megan says where she and Alex were forced to build a road we H it each person and we weeded
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it and then they made us cart like wheelbarrows like huge wheelbarrows full of rocks up and spread so we basically
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built a dirt road on campus Ashley remembers one night waking up to Alex screaming what happened
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sounds like a scene out of a Steven King movie she like kind of walked down the halls and like was cutting herself
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really late at night she began just to hurt herself because that's what she thought she
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[Music] deserved when it didn't work out at hide Alex's parents tried other schools but
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the worst was still to come well she talked about taking heroin when she was in her teens and by her early 20s Alex
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was living in San Francisco working strip clubs Like Larry Flint's Hustler and the
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Condor eventually she found her way back home to Atlanta where her life would take a dramatic turn this kind of great
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thing happens she meets a guy named Dean Dean was much older but so in love with
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Alex he wanted to marry her so maybe there's going to be a happy ending here anyway then in September
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2013 um I don't know I think my boyfriend overdosed or something like 2 months before Forest Hayes died Alex's
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fiance Dean died with heroin in his system he won't respond and he's just laying on the ground I don't know was it
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an unfortunate coincidence or something more [Music] Sinister yeah it's good to be here it's
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good to be back it is one of the hottest concert venues in Atlanta Georgia the Masquerade and it all belonged to
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this man 53-year-old Dean ryel a former cross-dressing singer for the rock band The impotent Seas
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snakes in September of 2013 Dean died of a heroin overdose his girlfriend at the time Alex tickman I
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think my boyfriend overdosed her something like he he won't respond Alex made that 911 call after she says
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she discovered Dean unconscious in his North Atlanta home that was just two months before Alex was with Google
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executive Forest Hayes when he died I57 time is 88 Santa Cruz Deputy police chief Steve Clark we were surprised the
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similarities in their case to our case based on Alex's arrest in Santa Cruz for the death of forest Hayes
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police in Milton Georgia are now taking a second look at dean ryle's death what was first ruled an accidental overdose
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might very well become a criminal matter I think she had something to do with his death I really do one person
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who believes Alex should be held responsible for Dean's death is his former employee Christina
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Brooker that's cute an aspiring model for a few months in 2012 she lived in Dean's house taking
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care of his children from a previous marriage and his pet hobby raising dozens of monkeys he said he had a dream
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about monkeys one day and he just started collecting them you know he had the money to so why not Samson Delilah
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Jezebel some have Nam Dean told an Atlanta TV station that he had hopes of turning his property into Zoo anybody
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would spend 20 minutes or an hour with one would see they have a little bit more personality than most other animals
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but Christina says he real passion was the woman also featured in that news story Dean's living girlfriend Alex
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tickman oh he loved her he absolutely loved her he wanted to marry her and she wanted to marry him too Dean loved
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everything about Alex except the drugs by the time Alex hooked up with Dean she was a full blown heroin addict Dean
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Christina says did not share Alex's bad habits did you ever see him drink Never Smoke never do drugs not once Christina
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stopped working for Dean almost a year before he died still she's sure Dean would never inject himself with Heroin
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but she wonders if Alex might have do you think that's what happened I think possible especially
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with the case in Santa Cruz where she actually did that the idea that she's going around randomly sticking people
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with heroin needles is preposterous these are grown men they know exactly what they're doing so this
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is the Masquerade this is Dean's Club Todd is an Atlanta businessman he has asked us not to use his last name but
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says as a close friend of Alex tickman he could no longer keep quiet about what he knows about the couple she was
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devastated after Dean passed away he says not only did Dean drink he drank a lot but she loved him and he loved her
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if he were alive today he would be the first one to bail her out of jail and he would be absolutely mortified at how the
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people around him have treated her and Todd says Dean was determined to get Alex off heroin he sent her to rehab
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and even bought her an engagement ring he texted Todd this is August 30th of 2013 he was getting Alex a wedding ring
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they were going to get married that's just three weeks before Dean would overdose she gets her ring she picked it
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out today we drug test every week if she can stay clean for 14 months we will get
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married Halloween night 2014 these are text messages that have never been made public Todd showed them
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exclusively to 48 Hours Alex says this is the first time in 10 years she has gotten out of detox or rehab and lasted
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a whole week before shooting up again but Alex didn't stay clean for long and on September 7th
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2013 just 10 days before his fatal overdose Dean made a shocking Discovery Alex was online advertising
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herself to men she hated that she was compelled to do it because she had this addiction there were guys who wanted to
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rent her Penthouse Apartments men with a lot of power and a lot of status but she wasn't interested
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in anything except getting the money to support her habit she loved Dean she wanted to be
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with Dean but she had this deep dark secret and Todd says when Dean found out he flipped out he said can I move all of
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the prostitute into your place tomorrow she is better over there and I would like to bring her stuff to you today so
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I don't have to see the again but Dean didn't kick Alex out instead Todd says he hit the bottle hard once he
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discovered the ad things began to fall apart Dean desperately loved her Dean wanted to keep her but he couldn't
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figure out how to reconcile all of this so Todd believes Dean tried something new Alex would later tell police she was
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in the bathroom when she heard what sounded like a crash she went to the bedroom and found Dean on the floor an
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autopsy would show Dean had a fatal mix of heroin painkillers and alcohol in his
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system I'm convinced that what happened was Dean was trying to reach a connection with Alex on a deeper level
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and he thought that if they could share this thing this thing that she was so attached to that she couldn't let go
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of no matter what that they could actually be together and that's what he wanted more than anything in
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[Music] life following Dean's death Alex text messages Todd why did Dean have to die
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her mother is coming and will move her to California to the family's new home 2 hours outside San Francisco but Alex is
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trying to detox and tells Todd she's worried I know that City well like the tenderloin where I used to live is the
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third biggest open drug Market in the US it takes 2 minutes to score and you don't have to know anyone you can see
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why I'm [Applause] [Music] worried around October 30th 2013 Alex arrived in California she iMed imediately went back
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online and started advertising herself texting Todd guys out here got mad money and within days she had a prospect she
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was about to come into serious cash this is on the 2nd of November and she says an amazing guy found her he's the real
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deal tomorrow she's going to go to his boat for a few hours he's giving her $4 to $500 cash then a check for
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2,000 now I'm relatively certain ER that the guy on the boat she's referring to was
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Forest 3 weeks later on November 22nd Alex tickman was definitely with Forest Hayes on his
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boat where Todd believes she was simply making money to feed her addiction tell me one thing that happened on that yacht
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that was not absolutely consensual between two adults [Music] call the matter of people versus Alex
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tickman on May 19th 2015 Alex tickman is back in court to have a date set for her
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trial she's been in jail for almost a year her past modeling life a dis memory she faces almost 20 years behind
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bars charged in the killing of forced Haze along with drug possession and prostitution so stipulated
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CC her public defenders Jerry Christensen and Larry bigam have insisted she is not a coldblooded killer
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Alex tickman did nothing that Mr Hayes did not want her to do two adults engaged in mutual and Cooperative drug
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usage and it went wrong but it was an accident defense attorneys say Hayes was an eager participant that night even
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using his own cell phone light to show Alex where to inject him and they are adamant she then simply panicked
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everything about this video indicates accident and panic everything about it for months they have investigated
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forested hay passed asking prosecutors to hand over video from the escapees cameras as far far back is 6 months
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before he died we have some indications from other material that there may have been previous encounters on the boat it
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would be highly relevant in regard to whether or not there is uh drug usage along with sex but at the hearing
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there's a bombshell with her parents watching Alex tickman pleads guilty was your plead to count one a violation of
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penal code section 192b as a felony it's involuntary manslaughter guilty guilty to involuntary
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manslaughter as well as the Lesser charges you understand that if you plead no contest are guilty or admitting two
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felonies and five misers yes and through her lawyer she apologizes to the Hayes family this was in no form intentional
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malicious or anything of that sort it was accident and panic and she's so so sorry for it his tickle been the total
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will be 6 years to be served for puru to Penal Code tickman was sentenced to 6 years in a local jail but with credit
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for her time served and a reduction by the judge she will likely serve just a little over 2 years good luck to you
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Miss after the hearing another stunning development there are two charges that were prosecutor Rafael Vasquez says the
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family of forest Hayes told him they never wanted Alex tickman charged the family did not want this case to be
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filed they would have been very happy if this case simply would have been dismissed they were terrified about the
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prospect of this case going to trial the family he said did not want that video from forest's boat to ever be
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made public I can only imagine what further pain what further humiliation they would endure if that video was
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released out into the public and what's more he says Alex was never a coldblooded killer as described by law
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enforcement that was never depicted in that surveillance video in fact the prosecutor agrees with defense attorneys
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that Alex was anything but callous when Force collapsed and the fact that she actually made some efforts to try to
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wake him up hit him in the chest smacking him in the face holding him up trying to lift him up then holding him
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hugging him at one point and then you can see her crying in one instance and yelling for him to wake up in another
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instance that clearly shows somebody who appeared concern at that time and that certainly is inconsistent with somebody
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who acted with an obvious intent to kill but he says what she is guilty of is not
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doing enough she was the only one that can render help and she neglected to do so she failed to do so and instead took
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Liberties to destroy evidence and to make her get away while leaving the man there to die in the end one of tickl
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men's attorneys Athena re says Alex's time in jail has been and helping her turn her life around you know she's
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clean and sober she's closer with her family than ever and I think she's really used this time to reflect but for
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the family of forest Hayes there is no turning around and they will have to try to put the scars of his actions behind
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them from this point on the family no longer has to worry about the concern associated with all the scrutiny all the
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ridicule and all the scorn that's been generated by a lot of the media attention in this
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case this family has been through a lot [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music]