Posted on 02/26/2018 2:18:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Officially, Rebecca Zahau died at her own hand.
Investigators who first looked around the Coronado mansion where she reportedly was found hanging — naked, gagged and bound hand and foot — suspected they had a homicide on their hands.
But after a seven-week investigation, Sheriff Bill Gore held a news conference to announce that evidence and autopsy results led to the conclusion that Zahau's death on July 13, 2011, was a suicide.
Zahau's mother and sister have refused to believe that the 32-year-old surgical technician with a strong Christian faith killed herself. This week, trial is to start in San Diego County Superior Court in the family's wrongful death lawsuit.
Their suspicions have fallen on the only other person known to be at the home at the time: Adam Shacknai, brother of Zahau's boyfriend, Arizona pharmaceuticals tycoon Jonah Shacknai.
Adam Shacknai called 911 to report having found Zahau hanging. He said he cut the rope to lay her on the ground before Coronado police and medics got there. With no criminal charges pending against anyone, Zahau's family initially filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2013 against Adam Shacknai; Jonah Shacknai's ex-wife, Dina Shacknai and her sister, Nina Romero. It was alleged that the three had attacked, strangled and hanged Zahau.
The sisters were dropped from the suit when evidence revealed they were not present...
The suggested motive for the alleged assault was that Zahau was the adult in charge at the mansion when Jonah Shacknai's 6-year-old son, Max, took a fatal fall from a second-story stair landing two days earlier, on July 11. His death was ruled an accident.
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One of the most inexplicable features in the evidence was a phrase scrawled on the bedroom door in black paint: "She saved him can he save her."
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If you can’t figure out how to bound yourself hand and foot then hang yourself you shouldn’t be reading this article...
As to the first question, haven’t thought about it enough yet.
As to the second question, “Gloves?”
Gloves would indeed be a reasonable assumption.
If I were to go into a room and I found a friend in the process of hanging themselves I would probably not spend a lot of time running around the house searching for a pair of gloves to cut them down.
If I wanted to murder some one by staging a hanging, I would definitely use gloves to keep from leaving finger prints or DNA traces.
In this case, a lack of DNA or fingerprints points more towards guilt than innocence
If Vince Foster had had a gun, he’d be alive today.
Very good point.
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