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

The mysterious death of a Google executive and his last night with an exotic beauty captured on video -- now a court decides her fate. "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports in this episode which originally aired in July 2016. Watch more full episodes of "48 Hours" on Pluto TV.

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Brief Summary

Google executive Forest Hayes died of a heroin overdose on his yacht, with Alex Tickman present, leading to her arrest and charges of involuntary manslaughter.

Key points

The Mysterious Death of Forest Hayes. Forest Hayes, a Google executive, is found dead on his yacht, leading to an investigation.
The Chilling Video Evidence. Detectives uncover video footage that reveals the last moments of Forest Hayes's life.
Alex Tickman's Arrest. Alex Tickman is arrested for prostitution and charged in the death of Forest Hayes.
The Tragic Overdose. Dean, Alex's fiancé, dies of a heroin overdose just months before their wedding.
A Shocking Discovery. Days before Dean's death, he discovers Alex's online ads for prostitution.
Guilty Plea. Alex pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Forest Hayes.

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