Woman accused of killing twin sister in plunge off 200-foot cliff in Maui is ordered released

 


HONOLULU (AP) — A Maui judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a woman accused in the death of her twin sister after finding there's no probable cause for a murder charge.

Court records show Judge Blaine Kobayashi ordered the release of Alexandria Duval during her preliminary hearing Wednesday.

Prosecutors say Duval, who changed her name from Alison Dadow, intentionally caused the death of her sister when their SUV plunged off a cliff last week. Alexandria was the driver.

Anastasia Duval, whose previous name was Ana Dadow, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Alexandria was injured.

Witnesses told police they heard them arguing before the crash and that the passenger was pulling the driver's hair.

 

Friends said Alexandria and Anastasia Duval always lived together, played together and worked together, operating what were once two of the hottest yoga studios in the Palm Beach, Florida, area.

They would finish each other's sentences, and while they had boyfriends, their relationship seemed to come first.

But after a reality TV project fell through, the two descended into a cross-country spiral of business failures, debts, arguments and drunken run-ins with the law that all came to a tragic end last week.

That was when their SUV plunged off a 200-foot cliff in Hawaii during what was described as a hair-pulling fight over the steering wheel.

Anastasia, 37, was killed, and Alexandria was arrested and jailed on second-degree murder charges, accused of deliberately causing her sister's death.

Alexandria is now free.