A woman’s hanging at a mansion was a suicide, police decided. A civil jury says they’re wrong.

Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Subscribe Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader True Crime by Avi Selk by Avi Selk Email the author April 5 at 4:15 PM Email the author Jonathan Lucas of the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office announces that Rebecca Zahau’s death was ruled a suicide in 2011. (Denis Poroy/AP) On the palm-lined grounds of a mansion near San Diego, the sun rose one morning upon a grim tableau in the courtyard. “Unspeakable and crazy,” a man who saw it would later tell a courtroom. It seemed to defy explanation. Rebecca Zahau, who lived in the Coronado mansion with her boyfriend, was hanging from a balcony, naked and dead. There was a T-shirt in her mouth. Red rope curled around her neck; other strands bound her feet and her wrists behind her back. Flecks of black paint dotted the 32-year-old’s body, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Inside the guesthouse, someone had used the same paint to write on a door: “She saved him can you save her.” If the circumstances of Zahau’s death in 2011 were… Read full this story

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