MAUI, HAWAII — A 37-year-old yoga instructor could be looking at jail time now that authorities believe she drove her twin sister off a cliff with murderous intentions.
The Palm Beach Post reports that Alison and Ann Dadow had been well-known yoga studio owners in Florida’s ritzy Palm Beach. They abruptly closed shop in 2014, leaving behind unpaid staff and countless clients whose prepaid memberships were now useless.
The sisters moved to Park City, Utah and set up another studio. They eventually filed for bankruptcy after closing the Utah branch, and relocated to Hawaii. There, they went by completely different names: Alexandria and Anastasia Duval.
On May 29, the two were seen fighting inside their car while it was stopped along Maui’s Hana Highway. They were screaming and pulling each other’s hair when Alison, in the driver’s seat, gunned it. The Ford Explorer sped up and broke through a rock wall on the edge of the road, plunging the car off a cliff. The vehicle slammed into rocks some 200 feet below.
Ann, who was in the passenger’s seat, died instantly. Alison was taken to the hospital in critical condition but later survived.
According to the Washington Post, the car’s airbag control module shows there was no attempt to hit the brakes, suggesting Alison intentionally caused her sister’s death.
She was arrested by police after attempting to leave the island twice and is currently facing second-degree murder charges with no bail, reports Hawaii News Now.
