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 unconscious and then he thinks, wraps the black pink and paints this phrase on the door.
that everybody else was going to bring blame her to or at least thought they would do that and took her own life as a result? the way it was done doesn t fit that. if there was a note that said, i m sorry everybody. i loved their max. i was there for him. i m sorry for all of. you and i feel responsible? it s too much for me to bear. that would be one thing. and then overdosing on ambien, which was available there. may have fit. but this was sending a message. this was stripped naked, hung up for the world, with no direct no seeing what happened. the honor theory just didn t work. it just didn t fit. would a jury agree? greer had to prove 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.
greer like the other doctor believed someone killed rebecca and then placed her body at the end of the rope. he began to develop a theory as to who. the writing on the door is a key to the case. remember the message painted on the bedroom door? sheriffs investigators declined to reveal what it said, greer eventually found out. the message scrawled in black acrylic paint read, she saved him, can you save her. greer believes the message was not written by rebecca, it was written about her. she didn t save max? she did save max. at the time you have to look at it in context. remember rebecca said she did cpr on max after he fell. so at the time those words were written, max was still alive? max was alive. and maybe because of her effort? it wasn t maybe because of her effort, it was exactly because of her effort, and that s why it is the key to the case. because i know, whoever committed the murder, knew that rebecca had saved max.
he pointed to those knots tied around rebecca s hands and feet. 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 not 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 help them to the extent
them being wiped down? yes. and a handwriting expert who looked at that message on the door. the writing on the door is more consistent with adams than rebecca s. greer also claims that rebecca had been sexually assaulted with a knife prior to her murder. his expert testified a steak knife found in her bedroom had her blood in the handle. greer said the sheriff s department had overlooked that evidence. they never considered that. they never analyzed that. to defense called a forensic technician who does testified she did find the blood on the knife and with it a simple explanation. a recent cut on rebecca s right hand. and when greer asked her if the blood could ve come from a sexual assault? i didn t see any evidence of that. no evidence. a point the defense hammered home. no fingerprint evidence. no finger evidence that was indentified or directed to adam shacknai. all the items i tested, he was excluded. adam s brother jonah took the stand, he called rebecca s