Forrest timothy hayes biography

SAN FRANCISCO — The Santa Cruz police officer put it simply in announcing the arrest of a call girl accused of killing a Google executive on his yacht last fall with an overdose of heroin.

"It's an amazing case," Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said at Friday's briefing.

Beyond the surreal circumstances, what's perhaps most amazing is how extremely successful high-tech exec Forrest Timothy Hayes, 51, wound up tangled in the orbit of exotic dancer-turned-prostitute Alix Tichelman, a woman with a thing for the fictitious TV serial killer Dexter and who liked to write poems about drugs.

On the surface, Hayes seems the model Silicon Valley success.

Married for 17 years to his wife, Denise, and the father of five children, Hayes started his working life in his native Michigan in the automotive industry before segueing into tech.

There, his résumé includes polished nameplates such as Sun Microsystems and then Apple, where he was s