Around two weeks ago, during Sotheby’s annual conference, the wife of chief executive of Lew Geffen Sotheby’s International Realty, Jason Rohde, was found dead.

Although it was treated as a suicide at first, postmortem results now show that Susan Rohde, 47, had actually been strangled to death by an assailant’s bare hands.

While other reports claimed her body had been found hanging from electrical cords in the bathroom of the couple’s hotel room, police spokesperson Captain Frederick van Wyk would only confirm that a police investigation was under way.

Nothing else has been reported about the couple, and Jason Rohde’s social media accounts have all been deleted.

A Spier hotel manager, who did not want his name published, said:

I’m 100 percent sure nobody at Spier is a suspect. Sotheby’s hired Spier as a venue and got on with their party and everybody went to sleep. It happened early in the morning when there were no staff around.

We shall have to wait and see…

[source:iol]