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People come here with big dreams,

to get that big role, to be the big name, the next big star.

WOMAN: A family fears the worst as a young woman vanishes

from a Hollywood street.

And most don't know the risk and how hard it is

to make it in this business.

We are going through a lot.

Everybody loves Adea.

Not all of them have the resources.

We can announce a $25,000 reward for information leading

to Adea's whereabouts.

Hollywood is just a monster.

Hollywood is just a monster.

WOMAN #2: I can honestly say maybe one in a thousand --

one in a million -- will make it here.

MAN: It's a brutal place.

We're scared, but we are praying.

It's not gonna be a happy ending for you.

People have been fleeing this location lately,

especially with all the recent disappearances.

[camera shutters clicking]

MAN: Yeah, go ahead and sit in,

and then I'm gonna plug in, and I'll plug in right now.

I originally founded The Hookah Guyz,

and we started doing a lot of the Hollywood nightclubs.

So Adea was one of our hookah girls.

Adea Shabani was from Macedonia.

She had come to Hollywood.

She wanted to become a movie actress.

Her whole goal was just to come and take Hollywood by storm.

Her whole goal was just to come and take Hollywood by storm.

We used to nickname her Mother Nature, because she can

be beautiful and -- and calm and sweet,

and she can also be a hurricane.

It was Sunday night -- my wife gets

a phone call from our employee, Emma.

And now my wife is on the phone.

"Emma calm down. What's happening?"

And I can hear in the background, and then I hear

my wife, you know, repeating, "Police station."

my wife, you know, repeating, "Police station."

She's going 100 miles an hour.

She explained the story.

"Adea hasn't called me,

she hasn't texted me, and she's -- she's missing."

What do you mean, she's missing?

Adea was the type that always text them.

Like, it was -- it was just a constant thing

throughout the day, they'd have, like, 30, 40 messages.

So her not texting was obviously an issue.

We went into the police station, but they just couldn't

file anything until 72 hours had gone past,

which was insane to me.

So something needed to happen.

So I get in my truck, head over to where Adea's apartment was.

Adea had no family here.

She had no relatives.

I had to do something.

SARA: Adea Shabani was this beautiful young actress with

big dreams to be a big star in Hollywood.

She had these gorgeous big blue eyes,

blonde hair, very stunning.

She was born in Macedonia.

She had a bug to perform from a very early age.

JENNIFER: She enrolled in the Stella Adler Acting Academy.

It's a very prestigious acting academy.

A laundry list of celebrities have graduated from that place,

people like Salma Hayek and Mark Ruffalo, and it's just

a stone's throw away from the Hollywood sign.

SARA: Adea had a long road ahead in her acting career,

but she was so outgoing, and -- and so gorgeous,

it was hard not to be drawn to her.

And so she had all these encounters

with people that were obviously goals for her.

She ended up getting two nonspeaking roles.

She ended up getting two nonspeaking roles.

♪ I'll come through the oceans ♪

♪ I'll come through the seas ♪

In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles, Hollywood,

the glitz, glam capital of the world.

And right down from the Hollywood Walk of Fame,

she got an apartment at the Duet.

ANGEL: This is where Adea had her studio apartment,

and we ended up, you know, trying to get into the building,

except for, as you can see there, there's gated doors,

so we couldn't get into the building.

Security found out about us.

So basically, they kicked us off the property.

They wouldn't let us in.

After 72 hours,

none of us really sleep.

The welfare check comes through, they go up to the apartment,

The welfare check comes through, they go up to the apartment,

they find the door open,

but no signs of forced entry, no signs of forced exit.

And it was just an open door.

But why would Adea leave her door open in Hollywood?

That's when I had called all the news channels, trying to get

the story more attention, because without attention,

nobody was going to do anything about the case.

She was last seen in the Hollywood area,

She was last seen in the Hollywood area,

near Hollywood Boulevard and Wilcox,

around 2 p.m. on Friday.

MAN: This is the acting studio aspiring actress

Adea Shabani would have attended Wednesday night.

She wants to be an actress.

I know that sounds typical, but she really loves

this thing, and she reads about it, she studies the art.

She's totally obsessed.

She loves being on social media, she's really active.

She was not replying to text messages, she was missing.

So I got worried.

ANGEL: The thing that concerned me the most and made me want to

ANGEL: The thing that concerned me the most and made me want to

make sure that we take action

and we take action fast is there's --

there's a lot of cases of missing girls, and they just

don't solve every case, or if they get to it,

they might get to it too late.

SARA: Over the years, I've been

a legal analyst for breaking news stories.

There was a segment on Adea Shabani, and I was shocked.

Obviously, she was stunning.

She caught my attention.

She caught my attention.

This was a story that really broke hearts

as it made headlines.

We've been trying to do everything what we can,

looking for her -- we are scared,

but we are praying, and we are trying to think positive.

In a criminal investigation,

the police start to look at who the victim was.

Where was she studying?

Where was she living? What was she doing?

And most importantly, who was she last with?

And most importantly, who was she last with?

ANGEL: Adea worked for me at the time.

In the club industry,

we come across a lot of crazies, a lot of crazy people.

And it's happened, you know, multiple times where a girl

won't feel comfortable with someone, she'll call security,

they'll come in, they'll throw them out.

Nothing happened like that with Adea.

We couldn't think of anybody in the club, though

it was a possibility in the beginning that it could be.

it was a possibility in the beginning that it could be.

I was never questioned, but we told

police that we have suspicion that it's her boyfriend.

Chris Spotz, who's 33 years old, is originally

from Colorado.

He is pleasant looking, he was a licensed nurse's aid,

but the medical profession wasn't for him.

His dreams were to become an actor.

They kicked me out of the New England

Art Institute, and they dare hang crap like this.

Art Institute, and they dare hang crap like this.

Look at this painting.

JENNIFER: So he enrolls in the Stella Adler Acting Academy

in 2017, and that is where he meets 25-year-old Adea.

The chemistry was off the charts between Adea

and Chris, and they started dating each other.

Adea was off her rocks.

She was so happy, she was so in love.

She was so -- you know, she felt

like everything was finally starting to come true.

like everything was finally starting to come true.

Chris and Adea started talking about moving in

together, and he ended up meeting with Adea

at some fancy restaurant, and supposedly, he proposed,

and he told her that we should definitely move in together.

It's a very big deal, because that's

all she's been wanting this entire relationship.

SARA: After a few days, investigators start

gathering camera footage from the Duet complex.

And they're able to see that she's with

a man that looks like Chris Spotz

from Friday, February 23rd.

So now, they're beginning to see that

she left her apartment building with Chris Spotz.

So that's where all the attention is.

Did Chris have anything to do with Adea's disappearance?

And if so, where is she?

When the police start to look at their relationship,

When the police start to look at their relationship,

they learn something unsettling.

Chris Spotz

had two fiancees at the same time.

ANGEL: Three weeks before she had gone missing,

she started talking to me about her boyfriend,

Chris, and what they were going through.

And it was the first time I saw this fiery jealousy.

She was explaining that Chris was with somebody else --

Mary, I believe her name is -- Chris's fiancee,

but that they had an arrangement,

and he was going to leave that person.

She didn't really go into details or anything like that.

I was telling her that, you know, well, you know that a lot

of people kind of use that story where yeah,

I'm with this person, but I'm gonna leave them for you,

and you can see the fiery jealousy in her eyes,

like, no, he would never lie to me.

He's gonna leave her, and we're

gonna live together happily ever after, and --

and walk into the sunset.

SARA: When you have two women and a guy in these sort of

SARA: When you have two women and a guy in these sort of

parallel relationships,

there's a concern that the other woman wanted

to whack the new girlfriend.

So investigators start gathering this sort of

background information on Chris and his fiancee, Mary.

And then they delved deeper.

JENNIFER: Chris was living with Mary,

who he'd been with for several years,

and she was a nurse, and it was her full-time job

that was supporting his acting career,

which is one of the reasons why he didn't want to break up

with her -- she was his sugar mama.

with her -- she was his sugar mama.

ANGEL: Chris manipulated girls.

What was in the well?

No one's gonna believe you.

Then you must come by to

see my new masterpiece before the unveiling.

Tomorrow night, I'll pick you up here, 8 o'clock.

And they have to basically help him with everything.

Adea seemed to have spent a lot

of money on him, and he never held a job.

He never really got a call back.

He never really performed anything.

He never really performed anything.

He had a few clips on YouTube of him trying to be a villain.

There's nothing to worry about, Elliot.

Your screams just stirred up the rats.

And that was about it.

ANGEL: You know, he preyed on girls.

Welcome to my studio.

What do you think?

Don't be squeamish with this one.

It is a mere appetizer for what I'm about to show you.

It is a mere appetizer for what I'm about to show you.

ANGEL: Who had a thing for romance.

This was toxic.

This was a man who was living a double life.

This was a man who was exercising

extreme control over Adea in this relationship.

It was the worst relationship she could have ever had.

Adea was very much aware of Mary,

Chris's fiancee, but it's unknown whether Mary knew

about Adea.

about Adea.

So by February of 2018,

Chris also says Adea he's going to move in with her,

and they have the target date of March 1st.

Adea is so happy,

because she's not only gonna be marrying Chris,

they're gonna be moving in together.

They're gonna have a beautiful life.

She starts talking to friends about churches,

wedding venues, marriage licenses.

Adea told her friends that she believed she

Adea told her friends that she believed she

was pregnant with Chris's baby, and she was

absolutely ecstatic.

She really wanted to have his child.

There's only one problem.

They can't move forward, because he's still with Mary.

Homicide is the leading cause of death

among pregnant women in the United States,

and that often stems from a pattern of violence.

And so she did come back and say to her friends,

she thinks she's pregnant with Chris's baby.

she thinks she's pregnant with Chris's baby.

That must have absolutely freaked him out.

Upon reading the story, as someone who's

been in this field for 23 years,

there were so many red flags.

But as a young girl in her early twenties,

moving to Hollywood, all alone, no family,

no friends, it can be scary.

It can be nerve-wracking.

It can be nerve-wracking.

But finding someone who understands you and wants

the same thing you want, it gives you a sense of comfort,

and -- and I believe that's what she felt in Chris.

Little did she know that things

were gonna take a very different turn.

So it's Valentine's Day 2018, and you've

got a guy who has two fiancees.

Chris spends it with both of them.

He goes to lunch with Mary.

He goes to lunch with Mary.

He then takes Adea out for dinner.

Chris goes over to Adea's home, and at some point,

he leaves and goes back to his house, to Mary.

The next morning,

Adea wakes up and realizes

she had passed out.

She blacked out, she doesn't remember anything,

and her phone is gone.

and her phone is gone.

She used Find My Phone -- sure enough,

her phone was in Chris's truck.

There's so many questions surrounding

the night of Valentine's Day.

Why did Adea black out? Why was her phone gone

and later turned out to be in Chris's truck?

Did he roofie her to take her phone?

Where would he get the roofies from,

if he did, in fact, roofie her.

WOMAN: And what have you been doing since Friday?

Just ask people to put fliers, talk to people,

you know, spread the word.

-Social media. -Treat it as if it

were some of your own family members,

some of your own friends.

ANGEL: There was another ex-boyfriend that flew out

to come and look for Adea in California.

JENNIFER: Adea had an ex-boyfriend

who she was great friends with.

When authorities try to interview her ex-boyfriend,

he was very forthcoming with police.

He was on her lease.

He was on all her online accounts, and he was able to

give authorities all the information

give authorities all the information

that was in her cloud, her cellphone history,

knew all her passwords.

He was sharing in hopes of finding where Adea was.

SARA: Our phones today are a bank of evidence.

You know, there are contacts, there are text messages,

there are social media comments and DMs

and all kinds of things that leave evidence behind.

And investigators find that there were recordings on

her phone about this altercation in his truck.

her phone about this altercation in his truck.

SARA: Adea tells her friends that she's beaten.

Late that night,

LAPD Dispatch

received two 911 calls from Adea's phone.

She had not waited to speak to dispatch,

so there was no recorded call,

but there were definitely two attempts from her phone to call

911 that same evening.

This is a clear escalation.

This is a clear escalation.

We are going through a lot.

This is -- we -- all of us love her.

There is no person -- everybody loves Adea.

ANGEL: At this point, we're still in hopes

that Adea's alive, we just don't know where she is.

Everybody was helping, you know, it wasn't

a one-person effort.

We tried to contact everybody.

Nobody knows anything.

We're putting out flyers, social media.

We're putting out flyers, social media.

JENNIFER: I remember this beautiful girl,

just staring at you, knowing that friends,

family, and loved ones were desperately looking for

this girl.

They were offering $25,000 reward

for any information on her whereabouts.

The only problem with the detectives is that

they're building a case against Chris Spotz,

they're building a case against Chris Spotz,

not necessarily to find Adea.

So they were busy doing their thing,

and we were busy doing whatever we had to do.

We just started pulling in as much information as we could.

All of my staff at the time were

helping out -- my wife, a few friends overseas.

Anybody that can get any kind of

information was looking up details about Chris Spotz,

and we were trying to look up anything

on Find My Phone for Adea,

on Find My Phone for Adea,

anything that would just give us a little bit of a string

so we know where to start.

Adea's mom wanted to generate some press on helping to find

her daughter, hires a private detective

in the Los Angeles area.

He was the liaison between the media and the police to

try to help find her daughter while she was in Macedonia.

We have no evidence that she is a runaway.

She's not a voluntary missing.

We don't have any evidence that she wanted to harm herself.

We don't have any evidence that she wanted to harm herself.

ANGEL: Whenever we did get certain information,

we would send it to the police right away,

and Jayden was pretty good with that.

You look for her where she frequents.

You try to look up anything online.

Usually, if somebody tags a place,

it'll pop up online.

And we couldn't find anything.

After that,

After that,

we get a lead on a hotel, the Sheraton

in Universal Studios,

that Chris Spotz was staying there.

Jayden had somebody who was working with him and sends them

to the Sheraton.

They got us the room number.

We figured it's one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning,

so we call the room, and the phone is ringing.

[phone ringing]

We can hear it, nobody picks up on the other end.

Chris was hotel hopping all over L.A.

We started calling different hotels,

but in completely different areas.

So now we're moving from North Hollywood, and we're going up to

like, you know, Burbank,

we're going to Glendale, we're going to Sun Valley,

we're going to all these -- these other areas,

but we look around,

and we see a restaurant, so we go to the restaurant,

we tell the guy, like, hey, here's a picture of Chris Spotz

and Mary and said, you know, have you seen them?

and Mary and said, you know, have you seen them?

And then they were like, well, they

were just eating here, like, 30 minutes ago.

And that's when we knew that

Mary was -- was actually traveling with him.

We didn't know what Mary's involvement at the time was.

Mary was a nurse.

We started putting plausible outcomes

that they drugged Adea.

Mary, she has access to meds.

We didn't know if she had no idea or if she was in on

the plan and helped.

We just knew that, at that point, Chris

We just knew that, at that point, Chris

took her, and we need to find her.

SARA: As this investigation unfolds,

the investigators get the cooperation of

Chris's family.

Now, Chris's family appears to be very firmly standing by

the belief that there is no way that Chris

could do any wrong,

that Chris is not that kind of guy.

that Chris is not that kind of guy.

I mean, he had no criminal history, after all.

The investigator was able to get their cooperation,

and that leads them to share

Chris's Google sign-in credentials, and that is

the golden nugget in this case.

He had not turned his own Google location off.

So that's what allowed investigators to

be able to get his digital footprint.

On February 23rd, from before he picked up

On February 23rd, from before he picked up

Adea, all the way through the end of that evening,

they were able to show where he was, who he

was with, and what he may have said to people.

The police had no evidence that

Mary was at all involved in this.

And then on the phone, they saw messages between Adea

and Chris, where Chris is telling Adea that his uncle

and Chris, where Chris is telling Adea that his uncle

passed away in Sacramento, and would she go

with him to the funeral, and, of course, she says yes.

That would line up the elevator footage

of her leaving with Chris

with her suitcase packed -- that's what Adea was doing.

She was going to Sacramento.

JENNIFER: But when the LAPD checks with Chris's family,

he doesn't have a dead uncle.

Everyone is desperate to find Adea.

And it's been 11 days.

So, yeah, we are scared, but we are praying.

Nobody knows where she is, and even the LAPD

don't really know if this is homicide

that needs to be investigated, or she's just

another missing person that might come back.

ANGEL: I didn't go to work at all.

My wife took over my responsibilities.

So there's a part of me that hoped that it wasn't Chris.

There was a part of me that hoped

that she just wanted to go off the grid, and I was praying that

that was the case scenario.

You know, because then we're all wrong, and that's great.

JENNIFER: Authorities can't get a hold of him.

JENNIFER: Authorities can't get a hold of him.

Chris puts up a wall with the LAPD,

but he then finally answers them through an attorney.

Chris's attorney says Chris really doesn't have

any information about where Adea might be.

They were together on February 23rd.

But as they were driving north, when they were around that

Santa Clarita area of the freeway, they had

an argument, and he let Adea out of his car and never saw

an argument, and he let Adea out of his car and never saw

her again and has not heard from her.

So these are not Chris's own admissions coming out of

his mouth, but a lawyer responded

that he never saw her again, and he never heard from her again.

JENNIFER: All police have to go on is the statement of

him saying he drives off and never sees her again.

But the only problem is they can't confirm it right away.

But the only problem is they can't confirm it right away.

Authorities don't get any reports

of anyone stranded on the freeway.

There's no sign of anyone having checked into any

local hotels,

and she doesn't show up on any surveillance video either.

So authorities know this doesn't pass the smell test,

and he now becomes suspect number one.

Why would he lie unless he was complicit?

At one point, we were getting information on Mary's credit

cards to try to see where she was purchasing things,

and that's how we found out that they were in Colorado.

Chris Spotz is originally from Colorado, where his mom lives.

So our theory was that basically he was getting

money at this point from his family in Colorado.

They were trying to help him out.

They were trying to help him out.

God knows what story he's selling them.

Everybody was convinced that Chris was running scared.

So we just basically started canvassing the entire area,

and if they have any kind of tie to the family in Colorado,

the goal was to reach Chris, to find out where Adea was.

Today, I'm here to discuss some developments

in the missing person investigation involving

Adea Shabani.

Robbery homicide detectives had traveled

Robbery homicide detectives had traveled

to Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Their efforts were in an attempt to locate Mr. Spotz

and take a look at his 2015

Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, as that was the last

vehicle that she had been seen in.

By the time authorities get there to try to talk to him,

he's already gone.

He's in the 2015 Toyota Tacoma that authorities have now put

a Be On the Lookout for, because they believe

a Be On the Lookout for, because they believe

something happened in that car,

there may be evidence in there, and they want to check it out.

While they're hunting him down,

everyone still is wondering where Adea is.

Authorities received several tips in the Nautilus area.

They started checking an area that's called the Woods.

It's about 400 miles north of Los Angeles.

Hundreds of volunteers, investigators,

Hundreds of volunteers, investigators,

everyone scoured the wilderness

for any sign of Adea.

ANGEL: It's a needle in a haystack.

Imagine looking for a body everywhere,

and you don't know where.

JENNIFER: Unfortunately, nothing came up.

They did this more than once.

JORDAN: The date was March 22, 2018.

I was working the graveyard shift.

I was working the graveyard shift.

The weather that night was crazy.

It was pouring rain, and it was windy and cold.

They broadcasted over there.

There was a wanted vehicle in the area,

of 2000s model Toyota Tacoma bearing a Texas license plate.

This vehicle is wanted for some reason

involving a missing person,

or there's a suspect is wanted for a crime inside of it.

or there's a suspect is wanted for a crime inside of it.

As we were driving westbound, we actually came

up to this traffic light right here.

I looked to my left -- there was

a black Toyota Tacoma sitting right there.

So I grabbed my spotlight right here, and I hit it

and turned it on, and I pointed it

right at the front license plate, and sure enough,

it was a Texas license plate.

I got on my radio. I let my partners know,

hey, I have that vehicle at the intersection of Main Street

and Escondido Avenue, and as it

and Escondido Avenue, and as it

pulled forward, I proceeded to follow the vehicle.

The San Bernardino sheriffs find

Chris's truck in the Hesperia area.

JORDAN: And as it pulled forward,

I proceeded to follow the vehicle.

I turned on my siren.

And surprisingly enough, the vehicle had yielded.

And surprisingly enough, the vehicle had yielded.

[indistinct radio chatter]

I stepped out, I was yelling as loud as

I could at the driver, Christopher,

to get his attention,

but I couldn't see him.

I couldn't see him in the mirror.

I retrieved my handgun.

I ordered the driver to shut the vehicle off, which he did.

I then ordered the driver to take the keys out the ignition

I then ordered the driver to take the keys out the ignition

and -- and throw 'em out of the window onto the asphalt,

which he did.

And then the next command I gave him was to open

the door from the outside so I could see his hand at all times.

And at that point, I noticed he didn't follow that command.

So I repeated the command, and nothing.

Got a little concerned that

he wasn't following my commands anymore.

And at that point, I noticed the brake lights come

And at that point, I noticed the brake lights come

on to the truck, and the truck start back up.

[engine starts]

So I don't know if he had a second set of keys or he just

threw out a dummy set of keys

originally, but he was able to turn the truck back on, and he

started to flee our location southbound on the 15 freeway.

SARA: When he speeds off, the sheriffs

then get the California Highway Patrol involved.

then get the California Highway Patrol involved.

And over the air told us, hey, guys,

I just got off the phone with LAPD.

Just be aware, that vehicle

and the suspect inside of there, whose name is

Christopher Spotz,

well, he's a wanted murder suspect,

and the truck's possibly the crime scene.

Just made my adrenaline go up that much higher, because, like,

hey, I don't want this guy to get away from us.

I'm gonna do whatever I can safely

to apprehend this guy and take him into custody hopefully.

to apprehend this guy and take him into custody hopefully.

SARA: He keeps going and going.

An hour later, the CHP in the --

in the course this pursuit, rolled out spike strips, and so

finally, his tires are blown.

JORDAN: It came to rest, and it looked like it was --

it was dead.

At this point, we still have a trail of units behind him,

and everybody kind of positions their unit as

and everybody kind of positions their unit as

best as they can.

And me and my partner, you know,

jumped out of our unit, and we started running up between

these CHP units to get a -- to get

a tactical position on -- on the suspect vehicle.

We heard one loud gunshot.

JENNIFER: When they approached the truck,

they find Chris Spotz dead inside with a single gunshot

wound to the head and a nine millimeter by his side.

wound to the head and a nine millimeter by his side.

Adea is not in the truck.

Adea is still missing.

The investigation to locate her is ongoing,

and the one person who knows is dead.

ANGEL: I was so pissed.

Instead of facing whatever it is that, you know,

whatever justice that's supposed to make anybody who

whatever justice that's supposed to make anybody who

was involved feel good.

We felt defeated after that, and we

didn't know what we were gonna do.

I had promised...

I promised her brother

that I'd find her.

You know, it was...

he called -- he was overseas, and, um,

he was crying, and I told him, you know, you gotta man up.

Your mom needs you, your family needs you,

and everybody needs you to...

to be strong.

I'm gonna find her. I'll bring her home.

California Highway Patrol pursued Spotz in his vehicle,

ultimately stopping off of the 91 freeway

in Riverside County.

Christopher Spotz remained in the vehicle,

and at some point in time committed suicide,

dying as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

We also believe that Mr. Spotz, Christopher Spotz, was

somehow involved in her death,

and we believe this to be a homicide.

and we believe this to be a homicide.

ANGEL: We have the truck now -- we can run DNA.

We can run all this kind of stuff.

But the truck was -- was absolutely cleaned.

We completely lost hope when Chris is gone.

If he hasn't told anyone,

that secret goes with him to the grave.

On March 25, 2018,

they get a tip to go to Spenceville.

The wilderness area is about 430 miles from Los Angeles.

That year, in 2018, in February and March,

it rained really, really, really hard.

And what that did to that river is it made the water go up.

And what that did to that river is it made the water go up.

So when it receded,

it actually took away half of

the dirt that was on top a remote location.

JENNIFER: When LAPD dive team members start

walking along the creek near the river,

they see some dirt that is disturbed,

and they realize it's a shallow grave.

MAN: Nevada County Sheriff's Office confirms

MAN: Nevada County Sheriff's Office confirms

that human remains were found

in a wildlife area in Nevada County,

50 miles northeast of Sacramento.

OFFICER: Because of the condition of the area,

we were not able to recover the body immediately.

JENNIFER: The next day,

investigators, forensic techs, painstakingly

extricate everything to preserve evidence.

And they removed the body from the shallow grave.

It's wrapped up in several layers of tarp and rope.

The body was just incredibly decomposed,

and so we don't know who that is.

The next day, they take the body to the coroner.

MAN: Just hours ago, the official confirmation came out.

The Nevada County coroner confirmed that

The Nevada County coroner confirmed that

the body found in this grave was Shabani's.

If it wasn't for her very unique tattoos,

investigators would not be able to identify her.

MAN: Nevada County Sheriff's Lieutenant saying

Wednesday she was identified through tattoos.

Her death has been ruled a homicide.

That's where we held the candlelight vigil for her.

That's where we held the candlelight vigil for her.

You know, when we did her memorial here,

this entire street got shut down.

Like 300 people ended up showing up

in less than 24 hours notice.

She was a very, you know,

outgoing girl, funny, around good people,

around good company all the time.

She was a sweetheart. She -- she's so beautiful.

She's very positive, very happy person.

JENNIFER: One of the saddest things about this case

is this bright light was put out,

and we'll never know what would have become

of Adea Shabani.

Her name did make headlines,

but not because of her acting,

because of her murder.

According to the coroner, Adea died by homicide,

According to the coroner, Adea died by homicide,

and her manner of death was blunt force trauma.

She was killed on the night of her disappearance,

and Adea Shabani was not pregnant.

We will never know what happened to Adea.

We will never know what Chris Spotz's motive was...

-Welcome to my studio. -...in killing Adea.

What do you think?

People have been fleeing this location lately,

especially with all the recent disappearances.

especially with all the recent disappearances.

Is it because Chris freaked out that she might be

pregnant -- when she said she thinks she's pregnant with

Chris's baby.

After Chris killed himself,

LAPD closed this investigation.

Chris was the one and only person of interest,

and really, frankly, the suspect towards the end,

and he killed himself.

So he's gone, and what do they do?

They close the case.

They close the case.

ANGEL: They wouldn't give us any information.

We just don't know what that story is or was.

You know, Chris had time to talk to attorneys

and figure out his game plan.

He had time to strategize, and -- and he had

someone to help him navigate without

being detected.

Who was it, you know?

SARA: There's been a lot of criticism,

because there's a suspicion that this isn't over,

because there's a suspicion that this isn't over,

that there's an accomplice out there, and the criticism is,

hey, LAPD,

you can't close this case until you find the other

person involved.

Adea's family, of course, got closure,

which a lot of missing person families don't.

They found the body,

but they have no justice, because Chris,

the only person of interest, killed himself.

ANGEL: This is Hollywood.

This is -- this is what Hollywood is.

Yeah, there's good in it, but it's not for everyone, you know?

The good is masked, and if you don't understand it,

Hollywood's not for you.