31-year-old Michaela Rylaarsdam was arrested in February and charged with second-degree homicide in connection to the demise of 56-year-old Michael Dale, who died following an encounter between the pair in 2023.

Per an arrest affidavit, by way of FOX 5, it was Dale who reached out to Rylaarsdam by way of an escort web site, earlier than he made a collection of BDSM requests of the then-29-year-old content material creator. She later informed police it was her first time attempting fetish habits, which she recorded with the plan of utilizing it for content material on her web page.

Amongst his alleged requests: Dale needed her to “wrap him up in saran wrap like a mummy,” glue his eyes shut, and glue girls’s boots onto his ft. Authorities mentioned his legs had been wrapped in saran wrap and boots had been glued to his ft through the encounter at his Escondido residence on April 17, 2023.

Sooner or later through the four-hour assembly — throughout which police mentioned Dale “appeared intoxicated” — a bag was allegedly positioned over his head and secured with duct tape for a minimum of eight minutes. Authorities responded to the scene after a name from Rylaarsdam claiming he grew to become unresponsive.

He was rushed to the hospital, the place he was declared mind lifeless the next day; he was taken off life help and died shortly after.

Per the affidavit, Rylaarsdam confirmed her telephone to police, with police saying texts confirmed Dale requested to have his legs wrapped and glue poured into his eyes.

She additionally had what police known as “a number of troubling movies” of Dale on the telephone, which allegedly confirmed Rylaarsdam performing a intercourse act on him whereas he had his wrists and legs certain, showing unresponsive with a bag over his head.

Rylaarsdam allegedly denied placing the bag over Dale’s head, or securing it there. She has pleaded not responsible and can seem in court docket subsequent week for a listening to; she stays in jail with out bail.

Whereas prosecutors acknowledge proof allegedly reveals Dale “employed her to carry out bondage acts and fetish acts,” they claimed to The San Diego Union-Tribute that there’s “no indication that he requested her to hinder his respiratory, requested her to place tape over his mouth, requested her to place a plastic bag over his head.”

Her protection lawyer, David Cohen, maintains “there was no intent to kill and no try and cowl this up,” saying his consumer “acted appropriately when she realized this was an issue.”

“There’s undoubtedly a consensual component — not solely one thing he consented to, one thing he was actively searching for,” Cohen added.