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...clearly a suicide, IMHO.
Clearly suicide?
The totality of the evidence points to the conclusion that Rebecca was murdered. I’ve included only very few of the reasons why I believe that to be true.
The SDSO contends that this was an impulsive suicide precipitated by receiving bad news.
The crime scene is far too complex to support that contention, and consider that if the SDSO is to be believed, it was all conceived and concluded within approximately two hours.
No woman has ever been found hanging outdoors, nude, gagged, with hands and feet bound in a suicide scenario and I still believe that to be true. The most unexplainable element being the fact the feet were bound, it serves no purpose, whatsoever, in a suicide hanging. A close second is the public nudity.
Note that the very first categorization of this incident given to the press, (and a cynic might add – before the “script” was written,) that this was a
“very suspicious, violent death”
How else would such a scene be described? Adam notwithstanding, I believe it’s a safe assumption to say that no one who viewed the scene - EMS, LE, etc. would have described it as anything other than a “very suspicious, violent death”
The complexity of the knots and choosing to anchor from a bed rather than the railing also speaks strongly against the idea that this was a suicide. This fact becomes even more improbable given the complete absence of any research by RZ into knots through computer searches and the extreme improbably of anyone picking something that complex against the backdrop of much less complicated knots.
Rebecca’s center of gravity was below the top of the railing and considerable effort would have been required to squirm up and over the railing. Such effort would have left an area far larger than the three inch area that is seen to be wiped clean of dust.
There is unexplained trauma to top and lateral right side of RZ’s head.
Then we have unexplained fractures in the front of the neck BELOW the furrow line created by the noose.
There are many more reasons which have been outlined in many posts throughout this forum.
Police probe suspicious death at Coronado mansion
By The Associated Press4:38 p.m.
July 13, 2011
CORONADO, Calif. — Police are investigating a suspicious death at a famous San Diego-area mansion.
Sheriff's Captain Tim Curran told The San Diego Union-Tribune that a woman died a `very suspicious, violent death' at Spreckels Mansion in Coronado on Wednesday morning.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/Jul/13/police-probe-suspicious-death-at-coronado-mansion/