Crime & Safety

Family Recalls Zahau on Her Birthday

Zahau was found dead in July in a Spreckels mansion courtyard.

The family of Rebecca Zahau, , remembered her jokes about getting older Wednesday on what would have been her 33rd birthday.

NBC San Diego reported that Mary Zahau-Loehner released a statement in honor of her sister, , despite being found bound by her hands and feet with a shirt gathered around her neck.

The , which came two days after her boyfriend's son suffered serious injuries in a fall at the mansion. The child died July 16.

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The family has challenged the suicide finding on and even on the , while appealing to the state for further investigation.

The mansion, a historic oceanfront residence, , and . 

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