i really don t know what happened at that time. now she said, she needed to know how rebecca died. she had rebecca s body exhumed, and media friendly forensic pathologists performed a second autopsy. his conclusion? homicide. was rebecca murdered? her family thought so. and eventually the case found its way to this man. it was intriguing from the beginning. san diego attorney keith greer. the doctor did identify some of the bruising and internal bruising which couldn t be explained by the hanging. wait one second, it couldn t be explained by the hanging but could be explained by what? by somebody knocking her down from behind and hog-tying her, something along those lines. a struggle. plus greer says the force of falling nine feet from the balcony should ve caused more severe injuries to rebecca s neck.
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. greer 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 you, was that enough? he made a public apology. i would say that not as many people saw the public apology, as who saw continuous accusations against us. he pushed forward anyway with just one defendant adam shacknai. that s to me, this is some
it was, he said, a small circle. mostly family. i had an eyewitness who put dina shacknai at the scene of the murder that evening. dina, the grief stricken mom. could she have blamed rebecca and then sought revenge? remember, mary recalled her sister saying, dina is going to kill me. where were you when rebecca zahau died? i don t know when she died, but i was in the hospital all night. in 2013, keefe greer filed a civil wrongful death suit on behalf of the zahau family. based on his eyewitness he named dina as a defendant along with her twin sister nina. there was also third defendant, the man who called 9-1-1, jonah s brother, adam shacknai. did you have anything to do with rebecca s death? absolutely not. greer disagreed.
she saved him, can you save her. if i m gonna kill somebody and try to make it look like a suicide, i m not gonna write a cryptic phrase behind, i m gonna write a phrase that said i m sorry, i m guilty i did it. it wasn t staged to be a suicide. even greer said evidence placing adam at the scene is weak. adam shacknai had any marks or scrapes that there had been a struggle with anyone. none. same with adams 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 loosen 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? how much dna and how many fingerprints are found on the knife, the rope, her body, how much? none. zero. zero. zero of adams, that is.
beginning. san diego attorney keith greer. dr. wecht did identify some deep bruising and internal bleeding which couldn t be explained by the hanging. wait one second. it couldn t be explained by the hanging but could be explained by what? by somebody knocking her down from behind and hog-tying her, something along those lines. a struggle. a struggle. plus greer says the force of falling nine feet from the balcony should have caused more severe injuries to rebecca s neck. greer, like dr. wecht, believed someone killed rebecca and then placed her body at the end of the rope. and he began to develop a theory as to who. the writing on the door is the key to the case. remember the message painted on the bedroom door? sheriff s investigators initially 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 believed the message was not written by rebecca.