SAN DIEGO Even though the death of Rebecca Zahau has been ruled a suicide, her family is disputing the finding and asking for the investigation to be re-opened.
Zahau’s naked body, ankles and wrists bound, was found hanging from the balcony of the Coronado mansion belonging to her boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai , chairman and chief executive Scottsdale-based Medicis Pharmaceuticals.
An attorney representing Zahau’s family reportedly leaked new details from the autopsy report.
Those revelations included the fact that there were hemorrhages under Zahau’s scalp, as well as duct tape residue and blood on her legs. In addition, a T-shirt that had been wrapped around the 32-year-old’s neck was partially stuffed in her mouth.
None of that information from the autopsy report was released during last week’s news conference in which San Diego investigators announced that they had closed the case, convinced that Zahau’s death was suicide.
Such a suicide, said attorney Anne Bremner, is unprecedented.
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