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.
...
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If you’ve bound yourself hand and foot, how do you hang yourself? Naked and gagged is details, but the fundamental question remains. It’s like shooting yourself in the head, twice.
This always seemed like murder and retribution for the apparent accidental death of the kid. Will be interesting to hear how she managed to hang herself in the manner described.
If you’ve bound yourself hand and foot, how do you hang yourself?
—
You don’t. But don’t tell the Sheriff that.
“was found hanging — naked, gagged and bound hand and foot “
Obviously suicide (/sarc).
How stupid were these “investigators”?
From the very first the whole affair has been weird
I don’t have to tell the Sheriff that, because apparently, the coroner did!
Vince Foster managed to do that...
h and he threw the gun away later...30 feet...
Vince... he was the inspiration for my comment.
30 feet? Shows determination. /S
Isnt it amazing what all can be accomplished after death ???
:)
It renews your faith in the afterlife, doesn’t it?
So if her footprints were the only ones found in the room how did the guy walk in to the room, lift her dead body back through the second story window and into the room without leaving footprints of his own?
And how did he manage to pull her body up by the rope without leaving any of his own DNA on the rope?
Silly
she had her hands free of course...
then she tied and gagged herself later...oh much later...
If this is the same story... she was the girlfriend. She was very distraught over the “accidental” death of her boyfriends young son.
Then she hung herself bound and naked. I didn’t buy it then and I don’t now.
She'll be voting Democrat indefinitely now.
Yup that’s the same one
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel no doubt concurs with that finding. Clear suicide, no need to look for a criminal.
bound hand and foot and gagged? Well no DNA on the rope, so she did it herself?? uh ok
Somebody needs to roto-rooter the California court system.
Somebody’s bank account got a whole lot bigger.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.