Two days later, the LAPD sent a dive team back to the wildlife area to look for Shabani, Hayes said. Spotz fled, prompting a chase that stretched from Hesperia to Corona, where authorities say Spotz fatally shot himself along the 91 Freeway. San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies spotted it on March 22, near the 10 and 15 freeways. When police couldn’t find Spotz or his truck, Hayes said, they alerted other law enforcement agencies that they were looking for the vehicle. Meanwhile, detectives and sheriff’s volunteers fanned out across the Lake of the Woods wildlife area, looking for any sign of Shabani. That same day, Hayes said, Spotz and another woman - his fiancee - drove to his family’s home in Colorado.Ībout a week later, detectives went to Colorado to try to talk to Spotz and look at his Toyota Tacoma - the last vehicle in which Shabani was seen alive, Hayes said. On March 1, detectives went to Northern California, where Spotz’s father lived, to try and glean more information about where Spotz and Shabani might be. Investigators weren’t able to verify Spotz’s account, he said, prompting Robbery-Homicide detectives to take over the case. Spotz said he pulled off the freeway and let Shabani out of the car - and hadn’t seen her since.īut the story didn’t add up, Hayes said. Later that week, Spotz made a statement through an attorney saying he and Shabani were driving to Northern California together when they argued near Santa Clarita, Hayes said. Friends reported her missing two days later, launching the LAPD’s investigation.

23, when she and Spotz left her Wilcox Avenue apartment together, Hayes said. Shabani was last seen alive on the afternoon of Feb. On Tuesday, William Hayes, captain of the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division, called the case a “rather complex investigation,” saying it took investigators to Colorado as well as to two wildlife areas in Northern California in search of Shabani. He died last week after shooting himself during a police chase. Los Angeles police said Tuesday that they believe Christopher Spotz, a 33-year-old man who police say had an “intimate relationship” with Shabani, was involved in her disappearance. The monthlong search for Shabani, a model and aspiring actress, came to a close this week when her body was found in the shallow grave 50 miles north of Sacramento. She appears to have sustained blunt force trauma to the head but a final determination of the cause of death will not been made until toxicology and tissue analysis has been completed, police said. Shabani, who went missing in February, was identified by her tattoos, according to the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. A body discovered in a shallow grave in Northern California earlier this week has been identified as missing Macedonian model Adea Shabani, authorities said Wednesday.

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