Episode 42 - Murder or Suicide: The Mysterious Death of Rebecca Zahau

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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Rebecca Zahau’s naked body was found hanging in the mansion she shared with her millionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai and his son, Max. Just days before Rebecca's apparent suicide she had been babysitting Max when he was fatally injured - had Rebecca taken her own life out of guilt? The evidence suggests otherwise...

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0:53.6	And welcome to Redhanded, where today we are delving into the very mysterious death of Rebecca Zahal.
1:00.3	In 2011, the 32-year-old was found completely naked, hanging from the second-story bedroom of the mansion she shared with her partner,
1:09.0	millionaire, farmer Tycoon, Jonah Shacknye, and his six-year-old son from a previous marriage, Max.
1:14.8	The family lived in Coronado, California. It's like an island of San Diego, and it's for the very, very rich.
1:22.4	The average house price here is about 1.5 million and rising, and 1043 Ocean Avenue, where the family lived,
1:29.4	which even had a name. The Sprakles mansion was worth a cool 12 mil.
1:34.6	I feel like if your house is worth 12 million dollars, you'd need it to have a name.
1:38.0	I think you should have a better name. The Sprakles mansion.
1:40.8	Yeah, that doesn't really mean anything.
1:41.9	When I hear Sprakles, I think of like Pepple Dash.
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