It is interesting. On May 27 there was a story about Rebecca Zahau on ID; then I saw the episode yesterday on Oxygen: I thought the story on ID was good, but not nearly as detail oriented as the episode on Oxygen last night. I like the different opinions from different expert points of view and how and why these people arrived at their opinions as to what they believe really happened in this case. It was interesting that those two ladies who were bondage experts showed it was not as difficult as one might think to bind one's hands in the manner in which Rebecca was bound. But for me, that fact did not change my opinion that this was murder. There is so much more than just the bindings of the hands that leads me to believe it was murder. One thing I guess I was not aware of was the bloody knife found on the floor. It was suggested this knife was used as part of a sexual assault. How would one explain that as part of a suicide? Why would she bind her feet and stuff a rag into her mouth before killing herself? why would she strip naked (with her period no less) so she would be found in a humiliating position hanging from the balcony? why would she bind her feet
so that she would have had to hop to get to the balcony in order to hang herself.
There are a myriad of ways to kill oneself, and to think a woman would strip naked and go through all of these absurd actions in order to kill herself, defies rational thought and any type of common sense. I think the writing on the wall was, as Rebecca's sister suggested, just done to throw the police off, and it worked pretty well.
It is clear to me from what the medical examiner and police stated in their initial press conference, in coming to the conclusion that she committed suicide, that they relied much more on what they perceived was her state of mind prior to her death, than what was found at the crime scene. I think they made an assumption that she was so distraught she killed herself and they put more weight on that than the findings surrounding her death. They mentioned the last phone call she got was letting her know that Max was in a coma. I think their preconceived ideas caused them to ignore a lot of the physical findings at the crime scene. That is what I got out of watching the episode on Oxygen last night. The police and ME will never ever change their minds because they have tunnel vision and are absolutely stuck on their beliefs.
Since Adam Shaknai was on the grounds of the mansion and had a key, it is most likely that he killed her and staged the scene in an attempt to make it look a suicide and it worked. If I recall from the special on ID, Adam Shaknai admitted he was looking at *advertiser censored* prior to finding Rebecca. Hmmmm. If you think about it, the way she was found, looked a *advertiser censored* scene: hanging nude from a balcony, bound with a rag stuffed in her mouth. Hmmm