Rebecca Nalepa’s Sister Claims There Was ‘No Way’ She Would Commit Suicide
July 21 2011, Published 6:30 a.m. ET
By Cliff Renfrew - Breaking Celebrity News Staff Reporter
The sister of Rebecca Nalepa has told Breaking Celebrity News: “There is no way my sister committed suicide.”
San Diego detectives are still actively working the bizarre case that has gripped the ultra wealthy enclave of Coronado, San Diego.
Beautiful Nalepa, 32, was found hanging naked with her hands and feet tied with electrical cord from a balcony of her multi-millionaire boyfriend pharmaceutical boss Jonah Shacknai’s Coronado mansion.
Her shocking death came only two days after Shacknai’s six-year-old son, Max Shacknai, suffered a fatal fall at the same house while in Rebecca’s care.
Shell-shocked sister Mary Zahau Loehner told Breaking Celebrity News: “There is no way my sister committed suicide.
“I spoke to her just before the incident and she was fine – she was the type of person who was full of life.
“At the moment we are planning a memorial service and we are limited as to what we can see because the police are still involved in the case.”
It is not known if Medicis CEO Shacknai or his brother Adam Shacknai will take part in the memorial service – both men have been quizzed by detectives who remain baffled by the case.
It is understood that Jonah Shacknai was not inside the historic Spreckles Mansion during either his son’s fall on July 11, 2011 or Rebecca’s death two days later.
Her body was discovered by Adam Shacknai who was living in a guest-house of the m