“She was last seen in the area of her apartment on some [surveillance] video at a local coffee shop she frequented,” Jayden Bryant, a private investigator hired by Adea’s family, told Dateline. “She was communicating with friends via text message pretty consistently during that morning and early afternoon. I’ve seen all the messages and everything was very consistent with her normal patterns.”
Then, suddenly, the communication stopped. Investigator Bryant told Dateline that her friends continued to try to contact Adea, but she didn’t answer.
Private investigator Bryant believes Adea’s case is being handled as an involuntary missing person homicide, because there has not been “any evidence that Adea was a runaway or committed suicide” or is otherwise missing voluntarily. However, he stressed, that doesn’t mean Adea is deceased.