Friends of Alix Tichelman, a prostitute called "the black widow of Silicon Valley" after police charged her with the overdose death of a Google executive and father of five, is not the sociopath that police and the public have painted her as, according to half a dozen of her friends who have come forward to support her. Tichelman's attorney called her a "wounded bird" and friends and supporters say that the devilish image she has garnered is completely wrong. Security footage from the yacht of Forrest Hayes, who Tichelman is charged with killing, shows Hayes helping her find a vein on his arm to shoot up what was ultimately a lethal dose of heroin.
