The woman found dead at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado may have committed suicide, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday.
Rebecca Nalepa, 32, the live-in girlfriend of the home’s owner, Jonah Shacknai, the founder and owner of an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, was found dead in the courtyard of the mansion.
Sheriff”s Capt. Tim Curran said that Shacknai’s brother, Adam, made an emergency call Wednesday morning saying he had found Nalepa hanging by her neck from a balcony. When police arrived, her nude body was found in the courtyard, her hands and feet bound.
Curran said that Adam Shacknai told police that he had cut down Nalepa’s body in apparent hopes she was still alive.
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