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She said, deena is going to kill me. she said deena is gonna kill me? that s correct. rebecca seemed upset, stressed, you get any sense that she blamed himself for what had happened? she seemed stressed, but not inappropriately so. because everybody was stressed? everybody was stressed. and actually sympathize with her, maybe mention that, it has to be tough on you. how terrible. did it cross your mind that rebecca could ve been involved in max s death? no, nobody talked about it as being a possibility. it was i did not even consider that a remote possibility. you didn t hear anybody blame rebecca, to her face or talking about her when she was in there? nobody, as i said, played the blame game. it s just not as far as i knew, where people were at. they were just focused on max. i didn t hear anybody trying to blame rebecca. soon, rebecca s death became ....
You. thank god. he s going to be okay? he s going to be okay. max was unconscious. deena and jonah took up vigil at the hospital. jonah s brother adam flew in from his home in tennessee. you came out to support jonah? correct. how long had you known max? i knew max well, he was a really wonderful kid. what was the story you were hearing about what had happened? they were trying to piece together what happened. at that time, no one was really sure what it was? i don t think so. but that wasn t really the focus when i got there. it was about him getting better. right. at max s bedside jonah asked one of the doctors for his prognosis. dr. pierce looked at him and said i don t know, i don t know. ....
Happen. tell the operator what s going on. hello. um july 11th, 2011, max was staying with his dad and rebecca. deena was in coronado too at a home just down the street. that s when jonah called her. he said, deena, you ve got to get her right away. as rebecca explained it to police, jonah had been at the gym. 6-year-old max was home with her. rebecca said she heard a crash and found max on the floor near the staircase. the mansion s heavy chandelier had fallen to the floor next to him. rebecca said max wasn t breathing and she started cpr. rebecca s 13-year-old sister dina, who was visiting, called 911. my sister is trying to resuscitate a boy. he can t breathe. police and paramedics arrived within minutes. jonah called deena from the hospital. and he tells me thank god she was able to give him cpr. i think to myself my god, thank ....
Often with zero proof. people are going to believe what they want to believe with no evidence. paradise valley, arizona was home for the shacknai family. but the summers they spent in coronado were special for deena and her son max. max loved the beach. he loved the water. and he used to tell me on the way to coronado, mommy, this is our place. she and max s dad, jonah, met in 1997. we had an instant connection. it s very rare you meet someone like that. they married in 2001. a second marriage for jonah, who was already the father of two. he d gotten rich owning a pharmaceutical company called medicis. she went back to school to get a ph.d. in developmental psychology. then along came max. then along came maxy. you re almost to the edge. oh, my. he did it! how do you feel, max shacknai? ....
Dead from a fentanyl overdose. his mother, deena, found him in the basement. i can tell you miss him. i do, i do. i miss him every day, i have a hole in my heart. reporter: matthew, who strugemmed with depression, it taken a pill laced with fentanyl 100 times more potent than heroin. i saw matthew and quickly turned him over and i knew he was gone. reporter: nearly 75% of the drug-related deaths last year were attributed to illegal fentanyl. it s smuggled into the u.s., mainly from mexico, hidden in tires, trucks, even loads of frozen fish. in lor aido, texas, seizures at the border are up 1,500% this year. we re seeing them in very small packages, which makes it even more challenging for our workforce to interdict. reporter: the cartels lace drugs like cocaine and heroin with fentanyl, and use it to make fake pain pills that end up on american streets. the u.s. government seized 1.8 ....