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Fresh Hell Podcast

E16: MYSTERY - Rebecca Zahau (Part II)

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In 2011, the affluent beach town of Coronado, California was rocked by not one, but two mysterious deaths, both at the historic Spreckles Mansion. Six year old Max Shacknai suffered a fatal fall, which some to this day believe was no accident. Days later, his father’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, was found hanging from a balcony in the courtyard of the home. The circumstances around Rebecca’s death are disturbing and bizarre, to say the least… was she murdered, or did she take her own life, as the police claim? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contained stories of a disturbing and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

0:20.0

Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

0:24.0

I'm Johanna and I'm Annie.

0:30.0

Thanks for joining us for part two of the Coronado Mansion deaths, the mysterious death of Rebecca's a house.

0:38.0

And that's what we're looking at today is the details of the death of Rebecca.

0:41.0

Can we do a quick recap please?

0:44.0

Yes, absolutely.

0:45.0

Please, if you haven't listened to last week's episode, please go back and listen to that first.

0:50.0

But if you did listen and you just need a refresher, Rebecca's how was watching her boyfriend

0:55.4

Jonah's son Max. When unfortunately Max suffered a catastrophic fall from the second floor and was rushed to the hospital. A few days later as Max is clinging to life at the hospital,

1:06.8

Jonah's brother Adam, who has flown in to support his brother, finds Rebecca hanging from a second story balcony.

1:13.0

She is nude with her hands bound behind her back

1:16.0

and her feet are also bound.

1:18.0

When Adam found her, she also had a long sleeve t-shirt

1:21.0

around her neck

1:22.0

with the sleeves knotted and stuffed into her mouth as a gag.

1:26.0

So now we're talking about what else is found at the scene, and the first is being that infamous

1:32.1

door painted with the words, she saved him, can you save her?

1:37.0

Is that supposed to be the suicide note?

1:39.0

Yeah, apparently.

1:41.0

Initially, there were images that the police had and they had redacted, like they kind of looked like white out over the message because they were talking about this cryptic suicide note that she left.

1:51.6

That's what they were calling it, a suicide note.

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