The family of Rebecca Zahau will petition the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office to reclassify her cause of death, an attorney representing the family announced Thursday.
Keith Greer, the attorney for the family of Rebecca Zahau, addresses the media with Rebecca's sister Mary Zahau-Loehner by his side on Aug. 14, 2019.The family of Rebecca Zahau, whose bound and nude body was found hanging from a balcony at a historic Coronado mansion more than a decade ago, will petition the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office to reclassify her cause of death, an attorney representing the family announced Thursday.
Zahau, 32, was found July 13, 2011, hanging by her neck above a rear courtyard at her boyfriend's beachfront summer home. She was gagged, with her ankles bound, her wrists tied behind her back, and a cryptic message scrawled on a nearby door:"She saved him, can you save her." Despite the civil victory, the family has continued to push for a criminal case to be filed and later announced it would offer a cash reward for anyone offering new information that could lead to Shacknai's arrest and conviction.