‘Today’ Show Features Zahau Case

NBC's morning Today show gave an overview of the Spreckels mansion death case Friday, including interviews with Rebecca Zahau's family and one of the investigators who determined her death was a suicide.

Mary Zahau-Loehner, Zahau's sister, appeared with her husband, Doug, and attorney Anne Bremner, to take questions from co-host Ann Curry .

at the oceanfront mansion.

The family contends that other evidence, including witnesses who may have heard cries for help, , and the way blood had pooled in her remains, show that she died by another's hand.

The 9-minute segment included a taped portion featuring Sgt. Dave Nemeth of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Nemeth said what the alleged witnesses may have heard “was unrelated to what happened in the mansion.”

A forensic expert interviewed by the network also said Zahau's other injuries can't be assumed to be due to a struggle, as the family argues.

“I truly believe her suicide was staged,” Zahau-Loehner said.

Bremner is seeking a new investigation, but has yet to make a formal request of the state. .