well, i can bust curfew-breakers in an instant. well, you all have xfinity home, with cameras to home security monitored by the pros. laughs learn more about home security or get our self-monitored solution welcome back. starting at just $10 per month. rebecca zahau s death had been ruled a suicide but her sister mary was convinced she had been murdered by adam shacknai. adam insisted that he tried to save rebecca after finding her hanging from the balcony. now the two were facing off in a civil lawsuit. a jury would decide who was responsible for rebecca s death, and the verdict would leave both sides stunned.
civil lawsuit, to finance a criminal matter is generally an extremely unsatisfying way of pursuing justice? that may be, but my only recourse was the lawsuit. soon they would start to get answers, just not the ones expected. coming up. where was dina than i don t rebecca s death? this eyewitness was adam, he was very clear, no doubt about it. powerful new video evidence and the dna evidence. where was it? adam shacknai admits that that morning he cut rebecca down, he loosened the ropes on her wrist to check your pulse. he gave her mouth to mouth resuscitation. and there s no dna? zero. when dateline continues. hen dateline continues
it. and turned out to be dead bang wrong? dead wrong. in april 2017, after four years of litigation, this security camera video came to light. it s from the hospital where max shacknai was being treated. the same night rebecca zahau died. clearly visible dina shacknai. at some point you look at the footage and you realize, i m wrong. and my witness is wrong. dina won their, she was at the hospital provably. absolutely. i got mad. i got really mad. he called a press conference to publicly eat some crow. when these pictures come out though, you can t refute them. he removed dina from the lawsuit along with her sister nina. and the family attorney apologized to, was that enough? he made a public apology. i would say that not as many people saw the public apology as who saw continues accusations against us. he pushed forward anyway
with just one defendant adam shacknai. that s 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 of 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 a detailed and substantiated narrative. he argued rebecca was killed not to avenge max, but instead during a sexual assault. greer s theory is that it began after rebecca stepped out of her shower and saw adam watching her. she didn t get some comfortable tries to escape, screams for help, at 11:30 that night. he says that explains the screams heard by a neighbor. right after that, to silence her adam hits her at the back of the head knocks or partially
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 to, guess would not s are tied on both her legs and her hands? figure eights, tied off with a single hitch or to. sheriffs investigators had question extensively after rebecca s death. you didn t hold anything back from investigators? nothing. you help them to the extent that you could? yeah, exhaustively. you thought you had nothing to hide? i knew i had nothing to hide. and when investigators determined there was no evidence placing adam at the scene, they cleared you? they did. did you think this was over that point? yes, i did. it wasn t over. rebecca s sister was determined to hold someone accountable. i m guessing that somebody said to you that filing a lawsuit, a