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Settlement in Rebecca Zahau civil case -
February 6, 2019
KUSI Newsroom
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A civil case stemming from the death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, whose bound and nude body was found hanging from a balcony at a historic Coronado mansion more than seven years ago, was dismissed with prejudice Wednesday following a settlement reached between her family and insurers.
Zahau was found July 13, 2011, hanging by her neck above a rear courtyard at her boyfriend’s beachfront summer home. She was gagged, with her ankles bound and her wrists tied behind her back.
Despite law enforcement’s findings that she committed suicide, a civil jury found Adam Shacknai, the brother of Zahau’s boyfriend, liable for her death and awarded Zahau’s mother more than $5 million in damages last April. Zahau’s family claimed that Shacknai confronted and attacked her because his nephew suffered an ultimately fatal fall while in her care.
Shacknai sought to have the jury’s verdict overturned, but the Zahau family’s lawyer, Keith Greer, asked that the case be dismissed. Judge Katherine Bacal, who previously issued a tentative ruling indicating she would deny a retrial, granted the request.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, with Greer electing to only say, “The case has been resolved.”
February 6, 2019
KUSI Newsroom
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A civil case stemming from the death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, whose bound and nude body was found hanging from a balcony at a historic Coronado mansion more than seven years ago, was dismissed with prejudice Wednesday following a settlement reached between her family and insurers.
Zahau was found July 13, 2011, hanging by her neck above a rear courtyard at her boyfriend’s beachfront summer home. She was gagged, with her ankles bound and her wrists tied behind her back.
Despite law enforcement’s findings that she committed suicide, a civil jury found Adam Shacknai, the brother of Zahau’s boyfriend, liable for her death and awarded Zahau’s mother more than $5 million in damages last April. Zahau’s family claimed that Shacknai confronted and attacked her because his nephew suffered an ultimately fatal fall while in her care.
Shacknai sought to have the jury’s verdict overturned, but the Zahau family’s lawyer, Keith Greer, asked that the case be dismissed. Judge Katherine Bacal, who previously issued a tentative ruling indicating she would deny a retrial, granted the request.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, with Greer electing to only say, “The case has been resolved.”