Karla Peterson: San Diego true-crime author s latest case: the mysterious death of Rebecca Zahau
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Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author’s life, the clues were there all along.
When she was a general-assignment reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s, Rother spent her spare time reading about sensational murder cases and devious criminals in New York magazine.
From 1993 until 2006, Rother was a reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she ended up writing some memorable stories involving bizarre deaths. Like the case of Steven Jean Hoover, a 50-year-old computer programmer who starved himself to death in his Clairemont condominium in 1995.
jon: right now from california, new developments in a very bizarre story. police in the posh community of coronado, outside of san diego are rejecting the request of the mother of this 6-year-old boy. she wanted them to reopen the investigation into his death. the chief medical examiner ruled max shacknai s death was an accident. the boy supposedly fell over the bannister of his father s mansion in july of last year. now at the time max was in the care of his father s girlfriend. rebecca. just days after the little boy s fatal fall her nude body was found hanged from a balcony at the same mansion. authorities ruled her death a suicide. so, what about all of this? let s get into it with lis wiehl a fox news legal analyst and a federal prosecutor. doug burns is a former federal prosecutor too.
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