Rebecca Zahau Suicide Controversy -- Rope She Hanged Herself With Not Visible In Video

Sept. 14 2011, Published 10:00 a.m. ET
By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Legal Editor & Alexis Tereszcuk - Breaking Celebrity News Senior Reporter
There appears to be another mystery in the Rebecca Zahau suicide case that could re-open the investigation into the cause of her death, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.
The San Diego Sheriff's Department determined the cause of Rebecca's death to be a suicide, after her naked body was found hanging from a rope at her billionaire boyfriend, Jonah Shacknai's mansion in Coronado, a posh suburb of San Diego.
A local news helicopter was over the scene of Rebecca's gruesome suicide shortly after her body was discovered, and in a still image that Breaking Celebrity News has reviewed, there is not a pink rope visible hanging from the balcony, although you can clearly see Rebecca’s lifeless body still on the ground.
The San Diego Sheriff's Department released several photos of a pink rope hanging from the balcony that they claim Rebecca hanged herself from. Cops have maintained that Adam Shacknai, Jonah's brother, cut Rebecca down after finding her the next morning, but that there was still some rope left behind. Rebecca also had a part of her T-shirt in her mouth, which Adam had removed.
Rebecca Zahau's family vehemently disagrees with the contention that she killed herself after Jonah's 6-year-old son, Max Shacknai, was found unconscious at the base of the stairs in the