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Scattershot attempt and you are suing everybody that comes into your line of sight looking for a sympathetic jury. >> thats it. a lot of people looked at it that way. >> why shouldnt that shatter the credibility of the rest of your case? >> i think the reality of it is that we always had adam involved all through the process. >> in the lawsuit, greer outlined a detailed and substantiated narrative. he argued rebecca was killed not to avenge max, but instead during a sexual assault. greers theory...

That everybody else was going to bring blame her to or at least thought they would do that and took her own life as a result? >> the way it was done doesnt fit that. if there was a note that said, im sorry everybody. i loved their max. i was there for him. im sorry for all of. you >> and i feel responsible? >> its too much for me to bear. that would be one thing. and then overdosing on ambien, which was available there. may have fit. but this was sending a message. this was stripped naked, hung ...

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...

He pointed to those knots tied around rebeccas hands and feet. >> figuring out in the first place is hard, tying them almost impossible. >> greer believed whoever tied the knot had to be an expert, possibly a sailor. and adam shacknai worked on the mississippi river as a tugboat captain. >> when he ties things off he uses a figure eight, and then closes it with a single hitch or two, guess would nots are tied on both her legs and her hands? figure eights, tied off with a single hitch or two. >> ...

Them being wiped down? >> yes. >> and a handwriting expert who looked at that message on the door. >> the writing on the door is more consistent with adams than rebeccas. >> greer also claims that rebecca had been sexually assaulted with a knife prior to her murder. his expert testified a steak knife found in her bedroom had her blood in the handle. greer said the sheriffs department had overlooked that evidence. >> they never considered that. they never analyzed that. >> to defense called a for...

>> i really dont know what happened at that time. >> now she said, she needed to know how rebecca died. she had rebeccas body exhumed, and media friendly forensic pathologists performed a second autopsy. his conclusion? homicide. >> was rebecca murdered? her family thought so. and eventually the case found its way to this man. >> it was intriguing from the beginning. >> san diego attorney keith greer. >> the doctor did identify some of the bruising and internal bruising which couldnt be explaine...

>> and turned out to be dead bang wrong? >> dead wrong. >> in april 2017, after four years of litigation, this security camera video came to light. its from the hospital where max shacknai was being treated. the same night rebecca zahau died. clearly visible dina shacknai. at some point you look at the footage and you realize, im wrong. and my witness is wrong. dina won their, she was at the hospital provably. >> absolutely. i got mad. i got really mad. >> greer called a press conference to publ...

>> 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 dont know when she died, but i was in the hospital all night. >> in 2013, keefe greer filed a civil wrongful death suit on behalf of the zahau family. based on h...

>> she saved him, can you save her. >> if im gonna kill somebody and try to make it look like a suicide, im not gonna write a cryptic phrase behind, im gonna write a phrase that said im sorry, im guilty i did it. >> it wasnt staged to be a suicide. >> even greer said evidence placing adam at the scene is weak. >> adam shacknai had any marks or scrapes that there had been a struggle with anyone. >> none. >> same with adams dna. >> its pretty hard to get rid of your dna. >> hard to get rid of dna....

Beginning. >> san diego attorney keith greer. >> dr. wecht did identify some deep bruising and internal bleeding which couldnt be explained by the hanging. >> wait one second. it couldnt be explained by the hanging but could be explained by what? >> by somebody knocking her down from behind and hog-tying her, something along those lines. a struggle. a struggle. >> plus greer says the force of falling nine feet from the balcony should have caused more severe injuries to rebeccas neck. greer, like...