New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Rother -- who lives in San Diego -- decided to take a deeper dive into the case. Rother just released a book about the case called “Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case."
It was a death impossible to ignore: 32-year old Zahou -- the beautiful girlfriend of a pharmaceutical industry millionaire -- discovered dead, bound and hanging from a balcony at Coronado's beachfront Spreckles Mansion, with a cryptic message painted on a nearby door.
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“You know, when you find a naked woman hanging, bound and gagged, with her ankles tied, and her hands tied behind her back, with a gag in her mouth, how can you not be intrigued by that?” Rother asked NBC 7. “What happened? And then, you know, she has a rich boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, who's a wealthy, you know, industrial pharmaceutical tycoon, you know, who's very successful, very smart, very accomplished…”