Prosecutors
say the sisters who run a yoga business called Twin Power Yoga, were traveling
together May 29 when their Ford Explorer crashed into a rock wall, plunging
onto a rocky shoreline.
The yoga
instructor, 37 year old Alexandria Duval, AKA Alison Dadow, who drove a car 200
feet off a Maui cliff has been charged with murder in the death of her twin
sister,37 year old Anastasia Duval AKA Ann Dadow, who was sitting in the
passenger seat.
Anastasia
Duval was pronounced dead at the scene, while her sister, Alexandria was taken
to a hospital in critical condition. According
to court documents, the vehicle's air-bag control module showed that the driver
didn't attempt to brake before accelerating, making a hard left and crashing.
Eye witnesses
said they saw the two women arguing while the vehicle was stopped and said the
passenger was pulling the driver's hair, then they saw the vehicle 'accelerate
forward and then take a sharp left over the cliff'. Maui Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney Emlyn Higa said.
One
eyewitness Lawrence Lau said:
'My first
thought when she was coming past us was, 'Don't hit me, don't hit me,' because
she was slightly out of control,' he told KHON2. 'She was doing 40 miles an
hour from a dead stop at that point.'
I saw a pair
of hands jerking the head, pulling the hair'. 'There were hands pulling her
head down like this, and her head was jerking.'
Alexandria
Duval's defence attorney said she wasn't trying to harm herself or her twin
sister. But when officers got information that she had been discharged from the
hospital and was attempting to flee the state, she got arrested on Friday.
Officer Higa
said:
'We had
information after she was discharged from the hospital she attempted to fly out
of the jurisdiction Wednesday night,' adding that she tried again Friday,
prompting police to arrest her. 'All we know is she was trying to leave the
state. We were afraid she would try to leave the country as well.'
She appeared
in court on Monday with her arm in a sling, where a judge ordered that she
continue to be held without bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for
Wednesday.
The identical
twins changed their names after moving to Hawaii, Higa said. Their Hawaii
driver's licenses bore their new names and the same Haiku address, he said.
They're
originally from Florida, where they ran a successful yoga business, and moved
to Hawaii in December from Utah.
The twins
were said to have been extremely close, dressing up in matching clothes,
driving the same matching Porsches and were well known in Palm beach Florida,
where they had a studio which they closed abruptly before moving to Hawaii.
The twins
also had a Yoga studio in Utah which was fraught with financial and legal
problems.
They opened
their first yoga studio in Palm Beach Gardens in 2008 and another in West Palm
Beach in 2011.
But they left
the state after closing the studios with no notice in 2014, and without paying
their employees or reimbursing customers who had already paid for services.
They resurfaced
in Park City, Utah, and opened another studio – but filed for bankruptcy that
year too. The twins are said to also have lengthy criminal records.
In Utah, they
were both arrested in five different incidents linked to alcohol, according to
GossipExtra.
Anastasia
Duval who got killed, on the other hand was arrested near Ogden, Utah, in 2014
for public intoxication, assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and
interference with an arrest. She also had convictions in Florida for disorderly
intoxication, battery and resisting arrest.
Alexandria's
criminal record in Utah includes arrests on suspicion of driving under the
influence, fleeing the scene of an accident and driving without insurance. In
January 2014, she was charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
Source: Daily
Mail.
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