AP — A Silicon Valley success story turned sordid this week with the arrest of an upscale prostitute who allegedly left a Google executive dying on his yacht after shooting him up with a deadly hit of heroin. Forrest Hayes, 51, was found dead by the captain of his foot yacht Escape last November.
At the time, a simple obituary described him as a beloved husband and father of five who enjoyed spending time with his family and on his boat. Surveillance footage from the yacht shows everything, police said, from when she came aboard until after Hayes collapsed. She swallowed the last of a glass of wine, lowered a blind and walked back on the dock to shore, police said.
Clark said it appears this might not have been the first time she left someone in trouble without calling or trying to help. Without elaborating, he said his agency is cooperating with police in a different state on a similar case. News vans gathered outside Hayes hilltop estate overlooking the glittering Monterey Bay on Tuesday.
The yacht has been sailed out of the harbor to the Bay Area. On the website, friends and co-workers were seemingly unaware of how he died. They fondly described their time together, Christmas parties on his boat, engineering teams at Sun Microsystems, traveling to China for Apple and most recently at Google, where they said he was involved in the Glass eyewear projects.
He said she had other clients from Silicon Valley, home to about 50 billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires, where the case was making waves Wednesday. Folsom software firm SynapSense announced hiring her father, Bart Tichelman in Neither the firm nor her father responded to immediate requests for comment. August did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
