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Friends and family could not reach Adea over that weekend. Shortly after Adea’s disappearance, Jayden Bryant, a private investigator hired by her family, told Dateline that Adea’s friends weren’t yet worried when they couldn’t reach her over the weekend.
“The friends were concerned, but it was probably a situation where they thought, ‘OK, maybe she went away for the weekend’,” Bryant said in March.
Suspicion grew, though, when Adea didn’t show up for an important acting class on Monday.
“That was the first class of that semester when they were assigning roles. Friends had described her as excited about that, and said she was seeking a large role in that class,” the private investigator told Dateline. “Friends -- and the school record -- indicate she was not a person who missed class. She was very responsible.”
Geoffrey Scholl, Adea’s friend and classmate, told Dateline in March that he was in the class Adea missed. Immediately, he said, he and his classmates thought her absence was “very strange.”
A group of Adea’s friends went down to the LAPD-Hollywood office, according to private investigator Bryant, and requested a welfare check at Adea’s apartment.
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