154: Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau. Par...

Just when we thought the biggest drama around the chess world was reserved for a 1980s British mega-musical about US/Soviet Cold War relations, along comes a bunch of tech bros at Chess.com to steal the crown. Apparently winning at chess online can lead to some big earnings, and ...  Show more

The body of an unidentified young woman was found in the Arizona desert in August 1992. Over thirty years later, the incredible efforts of the forensic genealogists at the DNA Doe Project would identify her as Melody Harrison. But how they pieced together her story traces a puzzl ...  Show more

Police ruled Rebecca Zahau's death a suicide after she was found naked and hanging from the balcony of her millionaire boyfriend's mansion in 2011. Then jurors in a civil trial found Adam Shacknai, the brother of Rebecca's boyfriend, responsible for her death. He adamantly denies ...  Show more

In the early morning hours of July 13, 2011, Adam Shacknai calls 911 and reports "I got a girl, hung herself". That "girl" was his brother's girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau. Adam Shacknai was reportedly alone with Rebecca at the Spreckels Mansion property on the night she died and was ...  Show more

Throughout his life, Drew Peterson was known as a womanizer, a fact that would eventually lead to the divorce from his third wife, Kathleen Savio, after his affair with 17-year-old Stacy Cales came to light. During Drew and Kathleen’s tumultuous divorce, and coincidentally right ...  Show more

In July of 1982, the movie Poltergeist was released in theaters and was a runaway success. As one of it's stars, Dominique Dunne's career began to take off. In October of 1982, 22 year old Dominique was beginning to prepare for her next role and was looking forward to her career' ...  Show more