from a MSM link.
"There are documentations of incidents throughout the country where people have secured their feet and hands as well to commit suicide, so we have to keep an open mind," San Diego County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Roy Frank said.
The motivation is so they can't change their minds and free themselves.
"Some of the psychologists will tell you once that decision is made, there is an urge of self-preservation, and this is one way to preclude oneself from stopping an attempt to end their life," Coronado Police Chief Louis Scanlon said.
One possible suicide theory is that Zahau might have hung the noose from the balcony, binding her hands and feet before stepping off a table. A table was one of the items taken from the mansion as evidence.
http://www.cbs8.com/story/15119133/waiting-for-answers-in-mansion-deaths-mystery
From the photos on the Fox 5 site, clear pictures of the round table directly underneath the balcony. With a broken leg (on the house side of it). In that location it is also smack over the top of the walkway, where one would not normally expect to find a table.
For the sake of decency, I'm not going to post any of those death scene photos here.
I believe either she placed it there to launch herself off, or Adam moved it there to cut her down. Leg may have broken when she jumped off it? Or tried to kick it away (this presumes suicide). Or broke from weight of Adam and/or Rebecca.
Same table with broken leg seen leaving as evidence at the same time as an apparent rolled up rug and a framed picture.
to revise the 6 or 7 step process I listed out fairly early in the Thread 1, that would make suicide possible, even if not necessarily likely...
1) Rebecca ties one end of rope around rails on the balcony. Then drops rest over the edge, with noose already tied.
2) goes outside, now buck naked if she wasn't already in step 1 above.
3) binds her ankles with perhaps excess electrical cord (appears to be orange around them, so my best guess)
4) puts noose over head
5) binds her hands in front of her. Was reported early on with electrical cord. Somehow gets her legs thru her arms so that her arms are now behind her.
6) kicks table away, and possibly it breaks a table leg in the process.
where I have problem is did she sit/stand on the table to maneuver her legs thru arms? Not a heck of a lot of wiggle room up, and unless she was able to stick her head thru a large noose left hanging AFTER getting her arms behind her, she would have had to do that with the noose presumably tightening around her neck already from bending, sitting, whatever.
If said scenario worked that way, her feet wouldn't have been very far off the ground, but still far enough that Adam may have grabbed the table (if already broken) and propped it upright against the house for some support in a hurry to get up high enough to cut her down.
Or broke it when he got up there to cut her down.
Comes down to if you believe she chose to take her own life, but based on what little we know, at this juncture I think it's certainly feasible.
One late night phone call from Jonah to tell her she needed to leave, or that poor Max was never going to come home alive, either one could have been the trigger.
As to comments about the scene showing a lot of "anger" I wonder if the framed painting, photo, or whatever they took had been used to leave a "message" of sorts. I.e. spray painted, slashed, in some way destroyed.
Still curious as to the rug. Perhaps merely she chose to disrobe and leave clothes on it. I doubt they are going to find bloody socks or gloves, but if her clothing was there, it departs to check for DNA, fibers, hairs, whatever else they'd look at to see if another person was there.
heck, bring in Dr Vass and his sniffer.
I do recall something from an earlier LE interview that suggested that room was in some level of disarray, but will have to dig to see if I can find it.
Did Rebecca perhaps trash the bedroom out of anger or great sense of despair (or both), or was there a huge struggle?
Patiently we wait for LE to conclude its investigation.