Adea Shabani was an aspiring actress from Macedonia living in California where she was murdered by her boyfriend, aspiring actor Chris Spotz.

She disappeared after leaving her Hollywood home on February 23, 2018 with her boyfriend Christopher 'Chris' Spotz (aged 33). Spotz, a fellow aspiring actor who attended the same acting school as Shabani where they.met, shot and killed himself on March 23, 2018, following a high-speed chase with the California Highway Patrol. Shabani's body was found on March 27, 2018 in the Spenceville Wildlife Area of Nevada County, California, hundreds of miles away from where she was last seen and more than one month after her disappearance. The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma.