and once again their destination was the mansion on ocean boulevard. jonas girlfriend rebecca was staying there, jonas brother adam had spent the night in the guesthouse. you wake up, you walk out, tell me what you see? a woman hanging, at the time i didn t necessarily think to myself, oh my goodness she s bound, or whatever. but just rebecca s hanging. naked, bound hand and foot, rebecca zahau was hanging by the neck from the second floor balcony. my heart started racing. this is actually happening. okay. how did she? i d say about 30. 30? okay. when was the last time you saw her? last night. even as he called 9-1-1, adams said he thought she was dead. but you try to do something
is going on here? it s denial, it s they don t wanted to be seen that their sister committed suicide. we asked rebecca s sister mary about that. a lot of times, families do not want to admit that someone committed to side. because they blame themselves for not maybe having seen the signs, is that what you re doing here? no. and i have been accused of that multiple times, including the sheriff s department. is it possible that rebecca was depressed and you missed it? no. in march 2018 the wrongful death long sued began incendiary go. defending adam was dan web, former u.s. attorney and a veteran of many courtrooms. there is no evidence that shows that adam shacknai had anything to do with the death
that says 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 quite a detailed and unsubstantiated narrative. he argued rebecca was killed not to avenge max, but instead during a sexual assault. greer s theory is that it began when rebecca stepped out of her shower and saw adam watching her. she then gets uncomfortable and 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 he paints this phrase on the door. 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 says evidence placing adam at the scene is weak. adam shacknai have any marks or scrapes that there had been a struggle with anyone. none. same with adam s 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 loosened 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? and how much dna and how many fingerprints are found on the knife, the rope, her body, how much? none.
of rebecca zahau. in particular, no dna or fingerprints from adam were found at the death scene. plaintiffs attorney keith greer called several experts who testified that the lack of physical evidence could show that adam had cleaned up after himself. there was nothing on the doorknobs whatsoever. as far as prince. and that s consistent with 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