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About two months earlier in Georgia, she made a panicked call to 911 as her boyfriend Dean Riopelle, owner of a popular Atlanta music venue, suffered an overdose in their home.
• Tichelman was never charged in Riopelle's death, but police said Thursday they're going to re-examine that case.
• "Both subjects in these cases died of heroin overdoses so there's just several factors we want to look at to make sure that we didn't miss anything," Milton police Capt. Shawn McCarty said.
• Police in California say Tichelman had many clients in the wealthy Silicon Valley, but it wasn't clear how long she may have been involved in prostitution. Police there also said that, after Hayes' death, she had done online searches for how to defend herself legally after administering a lethal dose of heroin.
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• In South Korea, where ex-spies can become celebs, former 'Mata Hari' remains stuck in the cold
• GUNPO, South Korea (AP) -- Once their espionage cases are resolved, some former North Korean spies find that life in the South can be pretty good. They write books, land TV gigs, work for think tanks and in general benefit from their new home's fascination with their old homeland.
• Won Jeong-hwa is not one of those spies.
• A year after finishing a five-year espionage sentence for using sex to obtain military secrets and plotting to assassinate intelligence officers, Won is a 40-year-old single mother eking out a living on an $800 monthly government subsidy.
• Her espionage work is not taken seriously enough in South Korea for her to cash in on her past, yet she's also too notorious to find an ordinary job. She says she has been fired from several waitressing and cleaning jobs after employers learned about her past, which she had attempted to conceal.
• "I've thought about killing myself many times," Won said in an interview at her small apartment in Gunpo, just south of Seoul.

Today in History
The Associated Press


• Today is Friday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2014. There are 173 days left in the year.

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