Here are some observations from myself re 911 call and contributions from others lifted from a blog.
Me:
911 Operator: 911 Emergency, what are you reporting?
Adam: Yeah, I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house, of uh, it's on Ocean Boulevard across from the hotel. Same place that you came and got the kid yesterday.
Operator: Ok sir, what is the address?
Adam: I’m not sure. Uh, 19, I mean the back house is 1928 something. Uh, I’m not sure. Let me call you back.
Operator: Ok. Sir? Is she still alive?
Adam: I don’t know.
Operator: Ok.
Background noise
Adam: Inaudible.
Background noise
Operator: Sir, you there?
Adam: Inaudible.
Operator: Yes sir?
Adam: Did you get the address?
Operator: No sir. I need the address.
Adam: Doing CPR right now. You came here yesterday to pick up a little boy.
Operator: Okay sir, I wasn't working yesterday. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Adam: Check your records.
Operator: Sir, I checked all of the records yesterday. I can't find anything on Ocean Boulevard. Can you tell me what the address is?
Adam: I'm looking. Just start sending them towards us, towards the hotel.
Operator: Ok. I understand that. I just need the exact address. I can’t help you until I have the address.
Adam: Inaudible.
Adam: 1043 Ocean Boulevard.
Operator: 1043 Ocean. Ok. Is she still alive?
Adam: I don’t think so.
Operator: Ok. Let me get some Fire Department -
Adam: Inaudible.
Operator: Sir. Hang on. Let me get the Fire Department on the phone to help you. Ok. Hang on just a minute.
Connects to Fire Department:
Adam: Aw, F--k. Come on.
Operator: Fire and Medical Emergency.
Operator: Coronado with a Transfer. Go ahead sir.
Adam: A lady just hung herself.
Operator: What’s the address?
Adam: 1043 Ocean Boulevard.
911 Operator: 1043 Ocean Boulevard.
Adam: Yeah.
Operator: Ok. What’s wrong?
Adam: She hung herself – I just woke up.
Operator: Is it a house?
Adam: It’s a house, yeah.
Operator: How old is she?
Adam: She's about 30
Operator: 30? Okay. When's the last time you saw her?
Adam: Last night.
Operator: Ok. Is she beyond help?
Adam: Inaudible, I’m doing, I’m compressing her chest right now.
Operator: Ok. Hold on.
Adam: Inaudible.
Operator: So - what’s - what’s your name?
Adam: Adam Shacknai.
Operator: Ok. I have help on the way. What’s your cell phone number? Is it (901) 485 ...
Adam: (901) 485..
Operator: Ok. Listen to me. Help is coming right now, ok. And PD, you’re on the way?
Operator: Yes we are.
Operator: Ok. And you’re right there with her. Did you cut her down?
Adam: Yes I did.
Operator: Ok. Just stay with me. End call
A couple of observations
Note although he knows her, he never says Rebecca Zahau or the more familiar, Rebecca, she is a none person.
Note the the frustration of the operator in the lack of facilitation of information.
Note the dropped pronoun regarding Rebecca allegedly hanging herself in the guest house.
Note the element of time re hanging herself (just).
Note the "The Kid / Little boy" is also nameless.
Note possible alibi placement. "I just woke up.
Adam: A lady just hung herself.
The word "just" can be used to compare, minimize or determine an approximate time.
Here it speaks of time. Eg, they "just" left the building, 5 / 10 / 20 mins ago. So, if we go by this, how did he know she "just" hung herself when rigor had set in in Rebecca's jaw when paramedics had arrived at 7am shortly after the call.
Rigor mortis starts at around 4–6 hours after death so she can not have "just" (time) hung herself, (in his words), in the time he found her, made the call and paramedics arriving. Otherwise there would be no rigor. So it would have had to happen well before he says "A lady just hung herself.
If he had said iv'e "just" "found" a lady hung and it was true, then this would be the correct usage of "just" in this instance, even if rigor had set in. There is a big difference between "a lady just hung herself and iv'e just found a lady hung. He is lying.
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Other contributions.
Re: Rebecca Zahau, not only does Adam Shacknai not name "the girl" or "the kid", he does not give them relationship with himself To him they are not "my brother's girlfriend" or "my nephew." That's some serious distancing. Why the distancing from his brother's son as well as the girlfriend? Did he have something to do with the boy's death?
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Suicides don't tie themselves up first before committing suicide, they just do it the way they want to go such as hanging etc.
Why would they do such a thing?
For one it makes it rather difficult to either get themselves up onto whatever thay are going to jump/fall from or rather difficult to do once they are in situ.
This smacks of homicide.
We have a motive.
We have opportunity
We have the means
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- the first sentence starts with "I got a girl hung herself". I think the bold words could be a subconscious confession. He doesn't say "I found a girl hung" or "a girl is hanging ..." but "I got a girl hung". "I got" may imply that he was involved in the process of hanging. He "got" it done.
- Why does he say "a girl". Wasn't she the girlfriend of his brother? Why not say that? It's as if he is distancing himself from her.
- He repeatedly says she hung herself. How would he know? The way she was hung was incredibly strange. Not at all an obvious suicide i.m.o.(on the contrary). He clearly feels a need to convince the listener that she hung herself. Why would that be important to him?
- He says "She hung herself - I just woke up". It's as if he is defending himself against the accusation of hanging her (as in: "I couldn't have done it, I just woke up, she did it herself.") However, nobody accused him of hanging her at that point. So why the need to defend himself? Does he feel guilty? The "I just woke up"-line is a variant of the "I was asleep" / "I was taking a nap"-phrase that popped up in various cases on this blog lately. Apparently that's his priority: to make the listener believe that he couldn't have done it, that she did it herself.
- He doesn't ask for help. Clearly that's not a priority to him.
- He is reluctant to give the address.
- Why does he refer to his nephew as "the kid", "a little boy"?
- "Doing CPR right now" -> he leaves out "I am". He doesn't commit to it. I don't believe he was doing CPR.