when these pictures come out though, you can t refute them. he removed dina from the lawsuit along with her sister nina. and the zahau family attorney apologized to you, was that enough? he made a public apology. and i would say that not as many people saw the public apology, as who sought continuous accusations against us. greer pushed forward anyway with just one defendant, adam shacknai. that says to me, this is some scattershot attempt and you are suing everybody that comes into your line of sight looking for a sympathetic jury. that s it. a lot of people looked at it that way. why shouldn t that shatter the credibility for the rest of your case? i think the reality of it is that we always had adam involved all through the process. in the lawsuit, greer outlined quite a detailed and unsubstantiated narrative. he argued rebecca was killed not to avenge max, but instead during a sexual assault.
with rebecca s death? absolutely not. greer disagreed. he pointed to those knots tied around rebecca s wrists and ankles. figuring out in the first place is hard, tying them almost impossible. greer believed whoever tied the knot had to be an expert, possibly a sailor. and adam shacknai worked on the mississippi river as a tugboat captain. when he ties things off he uses a figure eight, and then closes it with a single hitch or two, guess would knot s are tied on both her legs and her hands? figure eights, tied off with a single hitch or two. sheriffs investigators had questioned adam extensively after rebecca s death. you didn t hold anything back from investigators? nothing. you helped them to the extent that you could? yeah, exhaustively. you thought you had nothing
accusations, what do you think is going on here? it s denial, it s they don t want it to be seen that their sister committed suicide. we asked rebecca s sister mary about that. a lot of times, families do not want to admit that someone committed suicide. because they blame themselves for not maybe having seen the signs, is that what you re doing here? no. and i have been accused of that multiple times, including the sheriff s department. is it possible that rebecca was depressed and you missed it? no. in march 2018, the wrongful death law suit began . defending adam was dan web, former u.s. attorney and a veteran of many courtrooms. there is no evidence that shows that adam shacknai had anything to do with the death of rebecca zahau. in particular, no dna or fingerprints from adam were found at the death scene. plaintiffs attorney keith greer
scrapes or cuts on him that suggests a struggle with anyone. none. same with adam s dna. it s pretty hard to get rid of your dna. hard to get rid of dna. all right. adam shacknai admits that that morning he cut rebecca down, he loosened the ropes on her wrist to check her pulse. he gave her mouth to mouth resucitation, he gave cpr pumps to her chest and there s no dna? and how much dna and how many fingerprints are found on the knife, the rope, her body, how much? none. zero! zero. zero of adam s, that is. rebecca s dna and fingerprints were everywhere. according to greer, that means adam, who had no criminal history, knew exactly how to wipe down the scene, somehow removing his own fingerprints and dna, but leaving just rebecca s. of course, it could also mean that adam simply wasn t there when rebecca died, which is exactly what law enforcement came to believe. i m guessing that if you walk in court in any case, and
but this is sending a message. this was stripped naked, hung out in front of the world with no you know, direct note that says what happens the honor theory just didn t work. it just didn t fit. would a jury agree? greer had to prove that adam shacknai was somehow responsible for rebecca s death. that his own actions made him liable. in a wrongful death civil case the standard is more likely than not. a significantly lower bar than beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the standard in a criminal case. it is however still a challenge, and when the case went to trial, keith greer would be against a top notch defense team. did you feel overmatched? i was so out gunned it was pathetic. two families connected by tragedy prepare to go head to head in a courtroom. coming up. did you attack her?