Nude model hanged with hands and feet tied, cops call it suicide in jewish Israeli Dr's mansion
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CORONADO, Calif. -- Autopsy results and evidence gathered in the case of a woman found dead at a Coronado mansion will not be available to the public as the investigation continues, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said Friday.
The woman found dead at a Coronado mansion on Wednesday was discovered naked with her hands and feet bound hanging from a balcony off the main house by a rope around her neck, the sheriff's department said during a Thursday press briefing, but authorities are not prepared to call her death a homicide.
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Video: Police Execute Search Warrant At Coronado Mansion
Video: Friends, Family React To Woman's Death At Mansion
Video: Woman's Death At Mansion Remains Mystery
Video: I-Team Examines Shacknai's Lavish Lifestyle
Video: Woman's Death At Coronado Mansion Ruled 'Very Suspicious'
http://www.10news.com/news/28534601/detail.html
Police press con
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"Tzedakah (charity) is more than a word to Jonah Shacknai. It's a way of life. The founder and CEO of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. says his own success in business means he has responsibility toward those who have had fewer opportunities to achieve the same level of success. Shacknai developed his sense of social responsibility while growing up in Manhattan. "There was a strong Jewish tradition in my household," says Shacknai, whose parents were early Zionist settlers in Palestine."
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According to the sheriff's department, an autopsy on 32-year-old Rebecca M. Nalepa was conducted Thursday, but final cause-of-death results could remain on hold for weeks or months, pending completion of follow-up lab work, such as toxicology screenings.
"Autopsy records as well as the search-warrant affidavit will be sealed during the course of the investigation," sheriff's spokeswoman Melissa Aquino said Friday morning.
Police officers responding to a report of a possible death in the 1000 block of Ocean Boulevard in Coronado shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday found a woman in "distress" at the 27-room manor, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene a short time later.
The sheriff's department initially identified the woman as Rebecca M. Nalepa, but court documents obtained from the Superior Court of Arizona by 10News show that Nalepa restored her maiden name of Zahau in May.
Neighbors told 10News Zahau is the girlfriend of the mansion's owner, Dr. Jonah Shacknai, the CEO of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Medicis Pharmaceuticals.
Shacknai's brother, Adam, cut the woman down, a Sheriff's Capt. Tim Curran said at an 11 a.m. press conference Thursday.
Authorities said Adam Shacknai called 911 to report the death.
Sky10 footage showed Zahau's naked body lying on the courtyard grass. Her hands and feet looked to be bound with what appeared to be an orange electrical cord.
When asked if the woman's death could be ruled a suicide, Curran said, "That is a possibility. [The] circumstances are bizarre."
On Thursday, Curran told reporters he could not comment on what investigators found inside the residence because it is active investigation. He said authorities cleared scene at 9 a.m. Thursday.
Curran said the case remained a "death investigation" -- not necessarily a murder inquiry -- as detectives try to determine if the woman was slain or if she might have committed suicide.
As of Thursday morning, the owner of the manor and his brother were considered witnesses, not suspects or "persons of interest," Curran said.
10News reporter Rachel Bianco said that investigators removed an outdoor table with a missing leg, what appeared to be a large painting and a full evidence bag from the home Thursday morning.
Coronado police have requested assistance from a sheriff's homicide team
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The son has now died too...
Rumors of the boy's death in the community sprang up over the weekend as multiple TV stations caught wind of a Facebook post by Shacknai's 14-year-old daughter mourning the loss of her little brother
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Two days after a 6-year-old suffers a fatal fall, a woman is found hanging from a balcony in the same house
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/19/jonah-shacknai-mansio
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Jonah Shacknai And Ex-Wife Cannibalized Son’s Organs, Law enforcement sources tell RadarOnline.com that Jonah was at Max's bedside keeping vigil when Rebecca died.
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/07/jonah-shacknai-donated-s
on-max-organs-ex-wife-dina-shacknai
Mansion Hanging Wasn't Suicide, Sister Says, "The fact that Zahau's hands were tied behind her back does not rule out suicide, police said."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/spreckels-mansion-hanging-suicide-sister/stor
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POLICE HALT MURDER INVESTIGATION
Millionaire jew's lover committed "suicide" because of guilt over death of six-year-old step-son, claim police.
A woman found hanging naked two days after her millionaire boyfriend's six-year-old son was fatally injured while in her care, committed suicide, police sources have revealed.
Rebecca Zahau, 32, was found hanging with her hands and feet bound at pharmaceutical tycoon Jonah Shacknai's Coronado, California, mansion on July 13.
The millionaire had been questioned about the death, but detectives are now reasonably confident that the death was suicide, reported NBC San Diego.
They added that it is thought she tied her hands and feet so she could not save herself.
'I could see a person binding their hands so they wouldn't be able to help themselves trying to get out of the noose once they committed the act of hanging,' retired homicide detective Rick Carlson told NBC San Diego.
'It really doesn't seem a reason why they would bind their feet.'
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Mystery of the pink rope: Family of Rebecca Zahau demands reopening of case after rope used in hanging is not visible in video
The anguished family of Rebecca Zahau is hoping the sheriff's office will take another look at the case after the pink rope cops said she used to hang herself is not visible in a newly released video.
The department ruled the death of the woman found hanging at billionaire Jonah Shacknai's mansion a suicide on September 2. The body was found two days after her boyfriend's son died in her care.
But in an overhead video obtained by RadarOnline.com, the stills of which were posted on the site, the rope in police images that authorities said Miss Zahau used to kill herself is strangely not visible.
The 'pink rope' mystery is not the only reason for doubt. Last week, medical examiners revealed that she had blood on her inner thighs when her body was discovered.
The San Diego Sheriff's Department said they would be willing to reopen the case if a new lead came to light. The 32-year-old's family says this is such a lead.
Miss Zahau's family, who strongly denies she killed herself, has hired high-profile lawyer Anne Bremner to push for a reexamination of the case.
Ms Bremner said: 'This is another reason to reopen the case. The fact that the door is closed and the rope isn't there raises more questions in the investigation where they incorrectly found Rebecca's death to be a suicide.
She added: 'There are more questions raised everyday and it is startling - assuming that the police made these changes after they arrived at the scene - then why is her body still on the ground if they were collecting evidence?'
Officers, however, admitted last Monday that there were bruises on Miss Zahau's scalp and a T-shirt had been wrapped around her neck and stuffed in her mouth.
Police released the extra details about the autopsy report that concluded she had committed suicide, after parts were found to have been withheld from the public.
They had come under pressure to release more information after findings leaked to the media showed that there were possible reasons to question the finding that she committed suicide.
Dr Cyril Wecht, who has consulted on high profile cases including the assassination of President John F Kennedy, the drug overdose of Elvis Presley and the OJ Simpson case, said a number of factors in the ruling did not add up.
While Dr Wecht stopped short of saying it was murder, he is not content to rule it a suicide. He said the report needed a lot more scrutiny.
Max was revealed to have broken his spinal cord in his fall, and was not breathing and had no pulse when he was found.
'When you put all of this together, it just is bothersome' Dr Wecht told KFMB-AM. 'The manner of death I would have left as undetermined.'
On the T-shirt, which was removed from her mouth by Mr Shacknai's brother Adam when he cut her down, Dr Wecht told KFMB-AM: 'What does she care for that? "Gee, I don't want to wake anybody up who may come to rescue me."
'I don't know. I'm just trying to think. She didn't want to be rescued and didn't want to scream so she put it in her mouth? It's absurd.'
Regarding the tape residue, Dr Wecht speculated Ms Zahau could have planned to bind her feet with duct tape and then switched to rope. But he added to KFMB-AM: 'Well then, where's the duct tape?'
He also questioned why her feet were bound. 'Did she want to make it seem like it was a murder and incriminate him? That's something to think about.'
And Dr Wecht was concerned by haemorrhages found under her scalp surface, saying it was evidence of blunt force trauma. 'For someone to say there isn't any kind
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DOJ Epstein records reference Trump in Kiefer, Oklahoma death claim
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John Casablancas multiple citizen French Jewish Israeli Brazil Denmark? its a mystery....no its an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management.
and little attention to the Howard Stern shows
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So, ummm...
Nude.
shirt wrapped around neck and stuffed into mouth.
Head is bashed about.
Legs were once bound with duct tape, but no duct tape found anywhere.
Then feet bound by rope (I assume ankles).
Hands bound by rope - implied behind her back, but not specified.
Hung by pink rope from balcony, possibly inside the building. Some mention outside/lawn, some indoors.
Not specified if died from asphyxiation or neck snapped.
I'm not seeing how they rationalized this into "suicide"
Where was Hilliary on this day?
Columbo would be chagrined.
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Epstein exploited N.M.land leases for decades, sought tax reduction from private grazing
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