Authorities determined Rebeca Zahau’s 2011 death to be a suicide, a conclusion her family has vehemently contested over the years.
The family of Rebecca Zahau, whose bound and nude body was found hanging from a balcony at a historic Coronado mansion more than a decade ago, will petition the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office to reclassify her cause of death, an attorney representing the family announced Thursday.
Authorities determined Zahau's 2011 death to be a suicide, a conclusion Zahau's family has vehemently contested over the years. New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Rother -- who lives in San Diego -- just released a book about called “Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case," reports NBC 7's Mark Mullen.
Zahau, 32, 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, her wrists tied behind her back, and a cryptic message scrawled on a nearby door:"She saved him, can you save her."