He's gotta be on borrowed time at this point. She wanted to be a star but Adea Shabani ended up dead in the City of Angels. I really enjoyed the podcast and though for a while I like you was a little underwhelmed by the fact that after all the info and leads they were given, everything still led back to Chris, it paid off because his shit-bag father was definitely an accomplice. The new true crime podcast To Live and Die in LA focuses on the murder of Adea Shabani and the role her boyfriend, Chris Spotz, may have played in her disappearance and death. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. In the midst of the Adea Shabani investigation, a 21 year old named Matthew Weaver went missing in Neil’s neighborhood. I n the opening minutes of To Live and Die in LA, host Neil Strauss tells listeners that he is underqualified. Together, they found them...sometimes at great personal risk. From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. Five days later, it still sits at No. From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. To Live and Die in LA in a 12-part podcast that covers the story of missing 25-year-old Adea Shabani, an aspiring actress from Macedonia who vanished from outside her Hollywood apartment. Together, they found them...sometimes at great personal risk. When investigations began, Shabani’s apartment was unlocked, and there were signs her laptop had been used the evening of her disappearance, long after she had stopped contact with friends and family. In Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Listen as he and Jayden start putting together the puzzle pieces of a very strange story involving a car hanging off a cliff, a driver who’s nowhere to be found, and a disturbing cry for help that was never answered. “What I don’t do,” he says as he prepares to investigate a missing persons case, “is investigating crime and hard news and missing people.” Though this admission suggests Strauss’s inadequacy, it also gives the audience someone to root for. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Listen to To Live and Die in LA episodes free, on demand. From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. To Live and Die in LA Podcast Neil Strauss February 28, 2019 Missing Persons In February 2018, Adea Shabani, a 25-year-old acting student who’d moved to Los Angeles a year and a half earlier to pursue her dreams of becoming a star, vanished out of nowhere from her Hollywood Boulevard apartment.