Shortly after her friends officially reported her missing on Feb. 25, the police focused on her boyfriend, Christopher Spotz, who was seen leaving the apartment with her. According to the police, Mr. Spotz, 33, who was engaged to another woman, told detectives that on Feb. 23, they stopped for coffee in Hollywood and then headed north for his father’s home in a town outside Sacramento.
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But their road trip was cut short just miles outside Los Angeles, the police said he told them. The couple got into an argument, he said, and he let Ms. Shabani out of the car in Santa Clarita, a city about 25 miles from her apartment. However, detectives found no signs of Ms. Shabani in Santa Clarita or in Yuba County, where his father lives, Captain Hayes said on Tuesday.
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Captain Hayes said that despite the department’s frantic search for Ms. Shabani in late February, she was most likely dead the same day she left her apartment or the next morning. “Something happened, and I believe it to be somewhat untoward — that there was foul play involved,” he said at the news conference.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/adea-shabani-body-found-california.html