Rebecca Zahau Wrongful Death Suit opens in San Diego (UPDATE)

[miyazaki]

Last edited Wed Apr 4, 2018, 02:24 PM - Edit history (2)

Verdict reached. Defendant Adam Shacknai
found liable for the murder of Rebecca Zahau, 4/4/2018.

New report link: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Jury-Signal-a-Verdict-in-Spreckels-Mansion-Mystery-478779723.html

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-The San Diego Union-Tribune

Feb.26, 2018

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 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.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-zahau-trial-20180226-story.html



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- What can power and privilege afford? Apparently for the defense, no less than nine attorneys.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Bound hand and foot and she still managed to hang herself?

[bettyellen]

2. I remember this case- wow. Maybe things were so strained the brother thought he could hurt her

And keep the family on his side? Like a crime of opportunity?
Such a hard to understand crime scene, that’s for sure.

[Phoenix61]

3. Little brother of pharma guy wouldn't have any idea

what drugs would knock you out but not show up on a tox report would he. I mean where would he ever have access to that kind of info?

[BigmanPigman]

4. I always thought that the mother of the dead kid

had something to do with it too. I live in San Diego and this case never made sense. The painted writing on the door, people who were the last ones to see her and knew her well, etc. I think the dad, the kid's mom and family are involved. They blame her for the dead kid's accidental death.

[miyazaki]

5. UPDATE / SEE OP