colorado tragedy behind them. what became of the cabin that held so many memories for all of you? i think after the at sudden it wasn t going to be a happy place for us anymore. so that decided to sell the place shortly after mom died. i would imagine that that area is sort of bittersweet. now unfortunately, it s a beautiful area but just not for us. for the mueller children, life seem to be stabilizing. amanda was settling in with her husband. was in college. and alex, a high school student, was dreaming of a career in the navy. but as alex said, his dad was having a harder time of it. he married mom when he was 18 or 19, he depended so much on my mud there. and all of a sudden, he just cast adrift. unfortunately, the concern friend suggested he was ready to meet someone news. he finally started getting back on his feet. he started thinking about moving on. and he met wendy. wendy and fred were introduced through old family friends. she came into a very tough situati
her effort, it was exactly because of her effort, and that s why it is the key to the case. because i know, whoever committed the murder, knew that rebecca had saved max. it was, he said, a small circle. mostly family. i had an eyewitness who put dina shacknai at the scene of the murder that evening. dina, the grief stricken mom. could she have blamed rebecca and then sought revenge? remember, mary recalled her sister saying, dina is going to kill me. where were you when rebecca zahau died? i don t know how she died, but i was in the hospital all night. in 2013, keefe greer filed a civil wrongful death law suit on behalf of the zahau family. based on his eyewitness, he named dina as a defendant along with her twin sister nina. there was also third defendant, the man who called 9-1-1, jonas brother, adam shacknai. did you have anything to do
this email? i think my sister loved him in her way. to her, she was somewhat in awe of him to a certain extent. mary says that while rebecca and max were close, rebecca gave the impression she didn t get along well with maxes mom. and when max had his fall, mary said, rebecca worried how dina would react. she was upset about it and she said, jeanne is going to kill me. she said dina is gonna kill me? that s correct. rebecca seemed upset, stressed, you get any sense that she blamed himself for what had happened? she seemed stressed, but not inappropriately so. because everybody was stressed? everybody was stressed. and actually sympathized with her, maybe mention that, it has to be tough on you. how terrible. did anytime did it make sense to that to rebecca could be involved in what happened next? and terms of one some
i said, mom! so she tricked you? [laughs] we had such a wonderful time. but the next day i was not moving. as for fred, he owned a multi million dollar company importing steel for construction. still, their dad wasn t all business all the time. in the traditional motherly rolls, he would definitely step up and wasn t afraid to be mr. mom. the mueller kids say their parents fit one another perfectly. he make a point of every night trying to do something nice for her. they talked all the time. anytime there was any type of disagreement about who the dishes weren t done or some honey-do chore. they would talk about it until they were completely resolved. the next second, they would be all over each other again and be perfectly happy. it was a happy weekend at the mueller s colorado cabin. may 3rd, 2008. now that leslie was no longer working, she was spending much more time up here. that saturday, the spring day was sunny. the high altitude air still chilled. morning began
matter or will remain as a death investigation. in other words, did rebeca hang herself or was someone else involved? a neighbor reported hearing streams the night before, was that rebecca? there was a scream that somebody heard, did you hear that? well, my windows were closed and i did not hear scream. meanwhile at the hospital, dina said she was only focused on max. she kept watch by his bedside willing him to open his eyes. it was saturday july 16th, 2011, five days after maxes fall. i notice that his eeg was just flat. and i thought that the machine was broken, and i am shaking the machine and i m thinking, it s not working, it s malfunctioning. and then i m saying the eeg machine is not working, it s not working. but it was working, six -year-old max was gone. and dina was devastated. i mean, it was the worst shock in probably my entire life. a mother in shock and in mourning.