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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Rebecca Zahau, suicide or murder?

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Officially Rebecca Zahau committed suicide on July 13th, 2011. A strange a cryptic message was painted at the scene and her hands and feet were bound using intricate knots. Did this woman truly take her life in a complex and well-planned way, or did someone stage it to look that?

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0:00.0

Daking sideways is not brought to you by requests for clapping instead is brought to you by

0:05.5

Daking sideways. We are gonna meet up with you guys on October 14th 2017 for well guess what?

0:13.2

Amidab that's what we're meeting up with you, huh? And so the time and the place have yet to be

0:19.6

determined but keep an eye on social media we'll be announcing it there so stay tuned.

0:24.1

Well hey there and welcome again to another episode of Thinking Sideways. I am Steve as usual

0:50.6

joined by Devan and Joe and once again we have a mystery for you. This week we're gonna talk about

1:00.3

the supposed suicide of Rebecca Zahau or at least primarily that's what we're gonna talk about. There's

1:07.4

some other things that are tied in the story that we'll cover. Before I forget though this story is

1:13.5

a listener suggestion so it was suggested by at least the people that I saw on the list which were

1:18.0

Diane, Rebecca and Andy. So he's usually about as long as we go on our list before we just stop.

1:22.4

It is so for all the rest of you sorry yeah. So I said that primarily we're gonna be talking about

1:28.3

Rebecca Zahau the reason that I said that is that we're also gonna be talking about the death of

1:34.0

six-year-old Max Shacknye so quick little ear warning this story is gonna it's gonna be dealing

1:40.4

with suicide the death of a six-year-old boy and there may be some other graphic conversation in there

1:47.2

so if you've got little ones around or if that content is not okay for you this is one

1:53.6

despos or skip for later. I would skip I wouldn't. Or turn the volume way up I don't know. Yeah no

1:59.5

well if it's key shout don't listen to it. Yeah. Alrighty here we go. Story takes place in 2011

2:05.6

between the 11th and 13th of July. At the time 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau was living with her

2:12.8

boyfriend Jonah Shacknye and they were living in his home which was the Spreckles mansion which

2:18.9

is in Coronado California. What's it apparently? It's an expensive area. It is yeah if people know

2:24.5

the area that will give you an income or an idea of his income and the value of his home but

2:30.8

for those of you who don't know Coronado is a high priced island just off of San Diego. Yeah

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