The girlfriend of a multimillionaire CEO was found hanging from a balcony at his mansion in Coronado. Police are leaning toward homicide, but are not
ruling out suicide. The woman's name was Rebecca Nalepa, also known as Rebecca Zahau.
Zahau's hands were bound behind her back and her feet were bound, but her hands and feet did not appear ever to have been bound together, police
said.
Though Adam Shacknai said she was hanging from a rope, investigators did not disclose what kind of material bound her hands and feet.When police
arrived at the historic Spreckels Mansion, they found Zahau's body on the lawn in the backyard. Shacknai told them he had cut her down.
He is thought to have been the only person home, and may have been the last person to see her alive, investigators said.
Nalepa was the girlfriend of Jonah Shacknai. He is the CEO of Medicis, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based pharmaceutical company, and the owner of the multi
million-dollar mansion.
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Adam Shacknai, who found the body, is the brother of the woman's boyfriend. Really now SUICIDE?? with bound hands and feet??
Apparently her boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai, had been at the hospital almost around the clock with his son, who was critically injured days earlier when
he had fallen down the stairs, at the same house.
Two days before Nalepa was found dead at the mansion, there was another incident at the home. According to Arizona Republic News, Shacknai's
6-year-old son was hospitalized after he was seriously injured when he fell down the staircase at the mansion.
Nalepa was home with the boy at the time of his accident:
According to the six-year-old boy's grandmother, quoted in The Arizona Republic, Shacknai's girlfriend was at home with the boy when he was
injured.
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Shacknai's divorce from the child's mother was rather unpleasant:
Katy Davis, 28, worked for his second wife, Dina Shacknai, two years ago as a personal assistant in Paradise Valley, Ariz., a wealthy enclave near
Scottsdale where the couple had a multimillion-dollar mansion. Davis said the divorce was very acrimonious.
Jonah Shacknai was dating Zahau at the time and that was an issue, Davis said..
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So, what do you all think -homicide or suicide? Is the child's accident somehow connected? Is the brother suspicious? Or is the house just haunted?
It is over 100 years old - alot of history there.
The Spreckels Mansion, once owned by San Diego magnate John D. Spreckels, was built in 1908. It sits on 12,751 square feet of property with a
115-foot unobstructed view of the beach. Spreckels also owned the nearby Hotel del Coronado, in addition to many other properties and businesses.
