Dr. Phil Reveals Results Of Rebecca Zahau's Second Autopsy, 'I Am Leaning Towards Homicide,' Says Pathologist
Nov. 15 2011, Published 8:55 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
A top pathologist has slammed the ruling of suicide in the death of Rebecca Zahau, and stated that he is leaning strongly towards the cause of death being homicide.
Dr. Phil McGraw pledged to help get to the bottom of Zahau's mysterious death at her billionaire boyfriend's San Diego mansion by exhuming her body and performing a second autopsy — he aired the results of the examination on Tuesday, and Breaking Celebrity News has footage of the latest developments.
As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Rebecca's tragic death was ruled a suicide after her naked body was found hanged with her hands and feet bound at Jonah Shacknai's historic mansion on July 13.
The death occurred just days after Jonah’s six-year-old son Max had an accident in the home, while under Rebecca’s care, that turned out to be fatal.
Breaking Celebrity News was the first to report that Dr. Phil had Rebecca's body exhumed from her grave in Missouri and retested for any evidence of foul play. Forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht conducted the autopsy in Philadelphia several weeks ago and his findings were revealed to her sister, Mary Zahau and attorney Anne Bremner on Tuesday's episode of the Dr. Phil Show.
Author of From Crime Scene To Courtroom and a veteran who has performed more than 17,000 autopsies, Dr. Wecht revealed that he does about a dozen second autopsies each year and he thought it was appropriate in this case to look at the body for a second time.
While he thinks the initial autopsy itself was thorough, the pathologist was amazed that invest