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PARK CITY — The mountains of Park City are a welcome sight for residents and a tourist destination for visitors. Park City is also a place two sisters from Florida looking for a fresh start chose to call home.
In Park City, they went by the names Alison and Ann Dadow or "the yoga twins."
The identical twins were once the owners of Twin Power Yoga. Their business venture didn't last long. Now, the former yoga studio is home to an Indian restaurant. Police say their stay in Park City was short but strange.
"I don't know what the draw was to come here, but they showed up and started drawing attention to themselves right away," said Chief Wade Carpenter of the Park City Police Department.
They opened their yoga studio for business in February 2014. Soon after, police started getting complaints from customers.
"They were concerned because (the twins) were never there or it was never open," Carpenter said. "(The twins) had collected money for these individuals using the yoga studio."
The sisters didn't just have problems with their customers.
"We had to arrest one of them for DUI and resisting arrest for the other one during the same event," Carpenter said.
In July of last year, they let their business license lapse and left town. Park City police didn't hear about them again until news of a crash spread.
On May 29, witnesses reported seeing the 37-year-old women, now known as Alexandria and Anastasia Duval, stopped in the middle of the Hana Highway in Maui.
"You could tell that she was very violently swearing at somebody else in the car," witness Lawrence Lau said by phone. "She floored it and was in a rage when she sped past us."
The sister's white Ford Explorer broke through a rock barrier and plummeted 200 feet.
Ann, the passenger, died instantly. Alison survived.
"(Alison) was like, in shock, I think," said Hank Kaupe, another witness. "I had my hand in there trying to speak to her and tell her help is on the way. She was trying to speak to me but I couldn't hear anything because the ocean was slamming against the rocks and the car."
Alison was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Investigators now believe she intentionally drove off the cliff into the Pacific Ocean.
Upon her release from the hospital, police arrested her as she was boarding a flight out of town.
She's now pleading guilty to a second-degree murder charge.
Back in Park City, the mountains still serve as a welcome sight for visitors, but the only sign of the sisters that remains is an outstanding DUI charge.
"This is a strange case for sure," Carpenter said.
Park City police say if the second-degree murder charge falls apart in Hawaii, they would possibly look into extraditing Alison back to Utah.
