The woman at the center of bizarre death sequence that has baffled police was herself once on the wrong side of the law, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Beautiful Burmese born Rebecca Nalepa - who was found hanging naked with her hands and feet tied at her wealthy boyfriend Jonah Shacknai's Coronado mansion - was busted for shoplifting in 2009.

Nalepa, 32, who died mysteriously two days after her boyfriend's son Max Shacknai, 6, suffered a fatal fall, is seen squirming in her mug shot.