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May 27, 2015 | miltonherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 10, No. 22
Tichelman guilty of Google murder Linked to Milton death By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com
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Members of the public discuss options and obstacles for a conservation subdivision ordinance at a May 20 meeting.
Community shapes conservation talks First of three public meetings
There will be two more meetings on the conservation subdivision ordinance. • May 30 at 10 a.m. at Milton City Hall • June 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Crabapple Government Building
By JONATHAN COPSEY and SHANNON WEAVER jonathan@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — The city of Milton held the first of a series of public meetings inviting community members to shape discussions on conservation subdivisions Wednesday, May 20. Different stakeholders – landowners, developers and the public at large – offered their perspectives on whether the city should enact a conservation subdivision ordinance, and if so, what such an ordinance would look like. Noel Carpenter, of the city’s Planning Commission, said conservation subdivisions could help regulate the city’s growth, in which hun-
dreds of new homes in dozens of new housing developments are planned. “It is not possible to stop growth,” he said. “But we can manage the growth in a responsible manner.” One such method of control could be in conservation subdivisions. A conservation subdivision essentially allows for flexibility in the building code to allow developers to set aside open space on land.
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MILTON, Ga. – Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, a former Northview High School student, pleaded guilty May 19 in the heroin overdose death of a Google executive in California in 2013. Tichelman was sentenced to six years in the death of Forrest Hayes for charges of involuntary manslaughter, administering a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, destroying evidence and engaging and agreeing to engage in prostitution. Surveillance cameras from Hayes’ boat allegedly showed Tichelman giving him heroin and showing him overdosing. Tichelman then left the boat, even stepping over his body. Tichelman was the girlfriend of Dean Riopelle, of Milton, who died in similar circumstances only a few months before Hayes. Tichelman was the one who called 911 the night Riopelle
went into a coma. She claimed at the time she did not know what happened, but later allegedly told California police she administered TICHELMAN the drugs that killed him. Riopelle went into a coma and died in September 2013 of what the Fulton County coroner called an overdose of heroin and Oxycodone. Riopelle, 53, was the owner of the Masquerade concert venue in Atlanta, but better known to Hopewell Road residents for his large animal preserve specializing in primates – monkeys. He and some neighbors came to loggerheads in 2012 when he approached the city to expand his collection of animals and open a preserve. Because of the similarities in the two deaths, Milton Police Spokesman Capt. Shawn McCarty said the police department was taking another look at Riopelle’s case. The investigation is still ongoing, he said.
Milton’s Dean Riopelle was a lover of animals, especially monkeys. He died in 2013 of an apparent drug overdose. His former girlfriend, Alix Tichelman recently pleaded guilty to administering a fatal dose of heroin to a California man.
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