Who Is Chris Spotz? The Suspect At The Heart Of "To Live And Die In L.A

Neil Strauss: Okay, great, that works. The police had nothing to go on as their primary suspect has committed suicide right in front of them before he could be questioned. And I pass on the message that Chris felt bad about how he'd messed things up with her. He then drove off, and that was the last time he saw her. They have discovered a person of interest who could have been an accomplice at the very least. And Adea, there are no words. She attended the American University of Paris in France, studying Business Administration before moving to LA. But the long and short of it is that the police were never going to arrest Chris Spotz without a body or definitive proof that he was involved, which they evidently don't have. Another time, he said it was a coyote. Chris marez chris spotz father. NS: Well, Alex was was over. JB: No, KIM: They closed it? And since Sam says he didn't answer any of the calls, his best guess is that Chris Spotz was calling for advice, for help, or most likely, for somewhere to stay in the area since he probably did have some sort of argument with his father that night. They're digging it up and taking pictures and we came back.

And the the twine is bailing twine. Exactly what happened to her. This particular one was in Yuba City, about 20 minutes away from Wheatland. She died of blunt force trauma to the head and was ruled as a homicide. Yet still, he returns to the same stories he told earlier in this episode. JB: obviously the, you know, we're interested in that. NS-VO: This podcast has been a production of Tenderfoot TV and Neil Strauss in conjunction with Cadence 13. Chris spotz father chris maree.info. This is some …" You know he added it to juice it up a little bit, to make it a little bit better, you know. You know, you could at least do this for me since you've never been there for me. I'm currently listening to it (not finished but kinda know what happens) and have googled it, but everything comes up from 2018. It's pretty extensive. Stayed for less than 2 hours, and then left. NS-VO: You may remember that when I first spoke with Chris Marez, he said that this hole was dug by dogs. She's in the back of my truck.

He said, I don't, he's to this day still says, I don't know where they stopped? He's not that person. They have stopped all the gas stations he stopped and talked with staff. Authorities identified the corpse as Shabani, in part thanks to her unique tattoos. So that would be consistent with a heavy, hard implement like a shovel.

Detectives showed up at his home with a warrant and investigated a suspicious looking hole that was dug on his property. NS: This is, what do we do about the Sam? Neil Strauss: Right. Especially since I saw the picture of Adea. It doesn't show to him at all. So they don't have that quite right. This family's son went missing late last year and they haven't had the support they need. According to Chris' biological father, though, Chris' uncle never had a heart attack. And it turns out, there's some things that Chance didn't share with me when I first spoke with him. Cause I don't think we ever said it explicitly now that we know all this other information. He has lied to us many times. Jack Spotz told reporters his stepson's death "shocked and devastated" the family.

NS-VO: What's also interesting is that Chance tells me that Chris and his friend, Brian, who I spoke briefly with after hearing the news about Chris, had a falling out. Oh, they don't say his name? The police interviewed Chris, who confirmed that he last saw Adea on Friday 23rd February after they took a trip to his father's house in northern California. According to his IMDb profile, Spotz was 5' 9" and enjoyed martial arts, yoga and volleyball. Jade Spotz: All right. A friend invited Adea on a trip to Mexico but she declined, saying she was planning to go to Chris' uncle's funeral instead.

She took her acting classes very seriously, which is why when she did not attend a very important class on Monday, 26th February 2018, her friends raised the alarm. And they had the detectives and you know, looking at this hole, but it was a squirrel that dug it up and they thought, "Well Shit, ". Neil Strauss: So I'm gonna tell you the rest of what Chance said. I'll double check with her again. That just seems odd to me …as if she'd been transported in some way from somewhere else. You went in separate trucks and Christopher followed you all the way to a place where you chose to bury her and then you just stood there. That if he thought it was a joke, that a few days later when the news broke that she was missing, he knew by then it was real. Says hold on, Dad, let me go out to the truck, gets the other bag. Those came from a false tip. Adea Shabani disappears. Jayden Brandt: Just so you know, like as you talk to the family, I mean they know about him.

That's fucking weird. Now listen to the answer to this question. Five days after Chris's suicide, on 27th March 2018, Adea's body was found over 400 miles away from her apartment buried in a shallow grave in northern California. Adea was not in the bed of the truck and she was not drugged when she left her apartment. I think now because she loved so much music, now the research shows that music can help a lot of children who are… cognitively affected by some kind of trauma. And that was to a burner phone with a 424 Los Angeles area code. Neil Strauss: That would be great. SM: I can come down there if you'd want to send me the address or something and I can meet you or talk to you about it, whatever.