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>> i know my sister wouldve fought. we used to tell each other that if someone ever tried to hurt us that we would do everything we can to leave something behind, so the other one can figure it out. i believe that she was murdered. >> this is a very bizarre death. >> it was baffling from the start. a young woman dead at her millionaire boyfriends mansion. >> 9-1-1 what are you reporting? >> i got a girl, hung herself. >> my heart started racing. >> you found her. >> i did. >> detective...

>> detectives ruled it a suicide, but was it? >> at the scene knives, rose, a cryptic phrase. >> her hands were tied, she was naked. >> this was sending a message. >> that wasnt the only suspicious death here. >> no mom wants to hear that her son was a victim of a homicide. something happened at the top of the stairs. >> what really went on in that mansion. hear from the man at the center in his first television interview. you thought you had nothing to hide? >> i knew i had nothing to...

>> the doctor -- thought that maxes injuries indicated that he had been assaulted before he fail. whats more she suspected whether the fall could happen as the sheriffs department described it. measurements showed the railing was 32 inches high, six-year-old max was only 45 inches tall. >> his center of gravity was too low. even on a razor scooter, his center of gravity is too low to go over that banister. >> it all pointed to a chilling alternate scenario. according to the doctor, someone assau...

Neck. greer like the other doctor believed someone killed rebecca and then placed her body at the end of the rope. he began to develop a theory as to who. >> the writing on the door is a key to the case. >> remember the message painted on the bedroom door? sheriffs investigators declined to reveal what it said, greer eventually found out. the message scrawled in black acrylic paint read, she saved him, can you save her. greer believes the message was not written by rebecca, it was written about ...

You. he knew that very well and i can say that today, max, i am the luckiest mommy that ever lived in this universe because i still have you. because loved doesnt disappear just because the person is not right -- you cant see them. >> in the years following maxs death, dina continued to investigate, and hired a woman named tara schneider. you are convinced that max died not as a result of the accident but a murder? >> yes, a homicide. >> tara has no law enforcement background. she calls herself ...

Greer like the other doctor believed someone killed rebecca and then placed her body at the end of the rope. he began to develop a theory as to who. >> the writing on the door is a key to the case. >> remember the message painted on the bedroom door? sheriffs investigators declined to reveal what it said, greer eventually found out. the message scrawled in black acrylic paint read, she saved him, can you save her. greer believes the message was not written by rebecca, it was written about her. s...

>> tara has no law enforcement background. she calls herself an intelligence analyst. she and dina have floated several theories over the years, the current theory, whoever killed max, it was not rebecca zahau. these days their suspission is focued on information from a neighbour that has never been verified. a story of all wild party at the mansion the night before maxs fall. >> he has not been interviewed by the police and has not come forward. >> my would connection it might have to maxes dea...

>> and if someone killed max, the doctors theory focused on one person. >> i think rebecca was somehow involved, but how much she was involved and to what degree, she took that to the grave. >> that alarming suspicion was only the beginning. because it wasnt just dina who was investigating. rebeccas sister mary was equally convinced rebecca would never hurt max or kill herself out of guilt. two women coping with terrible tragedies. neither willing to accept the sheriffs departments conclusions. ...

He had been assaulted before he fail. whats more she suspected whether the fall could happen as the sheriffs department described it. measurements showed the railing was 32 inches high, six-year-old max was only 45 inches tall. >> his center of gravity was too low. even on a razor scooter, his center of gravity is too low to go over the banister. >> it all pointed to a chilling alternate scenario. according to the doctor, someone assaulted max, and then he somehow went over the bannister, in oth...

>> reporter: it pointed to a chilling alternate scenario -- someone assaulted max and he somehow went over the banister. in other words, this was a homicide. >> i would much rather have them say this is an accident and heres why. no mom wants to hear that her son was a victim of a homicide. thats not something that somebody wants to hear. because then you have to deal with the fact that your son or daughters last minutes were, he was in fear, he was scared, he was hurt. and that is horrible. >> ...