you found her. i did. detectives ruled it a suicide, but was it? at the scene knives, rose, a cryptic phrase. her hands were tied, she was naked. this was sending a message. that wasn t the only suspicious death here. no mom wants to hear that her son was a victim of a homicide. something happened at the top of the stairs. what really went on in that mansion. hear from the man at the center in his first television interview. you thought you had nothing to hide? i knew i had nothing to hide. the worst shock in probably my entire life. some places feel secluded, secure. i can remember saying that
i know my sister would have fought. we used to tell each other that if someone ever tried to hurt us that we would do everything we can to leave something behind, so the other one can figure it out. i believe that she was murdered. this is a very bizarre death. it was baffling from the start. a young woman dead at her millionaire boyfriends mention. 9-1-1 what are you reporting? i got a girl, hung herself. my heart started racing.
my heart started racing. this is actually happening. okay. how old isshe? i d say about 30. 30? okay. when was the last time you saw? her last night. even as he called 9-1-1, adam said he thought she was dead. but you try to do something about it? i tried to do something, absolutely. it never really occurred to me that someone would look at this as a crime scene or something like that. that was the furthest thing from my mind. so you cut her body down? yeah. and? started cpr. to no avail? to no avail. when the coroner units arrived at the scene and located a female on the property who appeared to be deceased. rebecca s sister, mary zahau hundreds of miles away in missouri when her husband doug came to her work to bring her
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.
crazy woman who committed her suicide, because of a phone call. not plausible that she could have been hugely upset and distraught and worried and blaming herself over a significant injury to a boy that was under her care? a boy she really loved and had been taken care? of no. she was upset about it, but she definitely would not kill herself. was all of this just about how rebecca would be remembered? after her death came some revelations, things even mary hadn t known about. like in 2005 in california, when rebecca didn t show up for work and just vanished, her boyfriend reported her missing to the local police department rebecca turned up a few days later, saying it was just a misunderstanding. you re persuaded that if she did sort of mysteriously disappear back then for a day or two, it was something that she willingly did and not some sign of mental fragility?