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What happened to Chris Spotz? Details explored ahead of Death by Fame on ID

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Jessica Cortez

Updated on February 10, 2026

Monday’s all-new episode of Death by Distinction on ID will annal Adea Shabani’s strange killing, which stood out as truly newsworthy back in February 2018.

Chris Spotz was a hopeful entertainer who specialists accept was engaged with the killing of Shabani, an individual model, trying entertainer, and his better half at that point.

The couple were last spotted passing on Shabani’s loft on February 23 to go on an excursion to Northern California. The resulting examination, notwithstanding, uncovered that Spotz was locked in to one more lady at that point. The 33-year-old was before long pronounced a suspect for the situation.

Reports express that Chris Spotz lethally shot himself following a rapid pursuit with the police in Spring of that year, a couple of days before Shabani’s remaining parts being found in a shallow grave.

The impending episode, named For the Love of Show, airs on the channel at 9:00 pm ET on February 13, 2023.

The summary states:

“Adea Shabani crossed seas to seek after her Hollywood dreams; still, interests run high in Fantasy world, so when she bafflingly disappears, agents scramble to hold her back from turning into one more of the city’s lost angels.”Authorities thought Chris Spotz might have been involved his the vanishing of his Macedonia-local sweetheart and hopeful entertainer

Chris Spotz, model-entertainer Adea Shabani’s here and there beau, experienced childhood in Colorado and later studied brain research at the College of Northern Colorado. He graduated in 2009 preceding in the end moving to Los Angeles. The 33-year-old was likewise a hopeful entertainer and gone to the Stella Adler Institute of Acting and Theater close by Shabani, staying quiet about his relationship with her.

Specialists accepted Spotz might have been engaged with the killing of his 25-year-former sweetheart, who vanished on February 23, 2018. They likewise asserted that he was undermining the entertainer, considering that he was locked in to another lady named Mary Elmalak at that point. Besides, Shabani was last spotted bursting at the seams with him minutes prior to leaving for a long excursion to Northern California.

Tending to Chris Spotz’s case, LAPD Chief William Hayes purportedly said:

“Everything I’m saying to you is that we realize he left the loft with her at around 1 p.m. or on the other hand 1:15 p.m. on the evening of the 23rd. That is the last time that she is seen alive so that is the last valid data we have.”

BREAKING: Sources confirm that Adea Shabani left with her boyfriend Chris Spotz, also an actor, on what she thought was a weekend getaway. Spotz would later tell police they fought and he left her in Santa Clarita which sources say is not true. @foxla

— Gigi Graciette (@GigiGraciette) March 27, 2018

Hayes added: “We have no validating data that upholds his explanations that he had a contention with her and put her out on the interstate. We went up and checked the region and essentially nothing remained to be validated what he was talking about.”

Spotz was cross examined and purportedly gave an assertion through a lawyer, guaranteeing that he and Shabani had a contention during their excursion when she requested that he let her out of the vehicle some place in St Nick Clarita, California. He asserted he dropped her off around 25 miles from her home and that it was the last time he saw her.

Yet, when examiners couldn’t affirm his rendition of the story, they confirmed that he was logical associated with the matter. Further examination uncovered insights regarding his life partner and that he had made a trip with her to his family home in Post Morgan on Walk 1 to visit his folks.

Chris Spotz lethally shot himself in the head almost a month after his better half bafflingly vanished

An alarm was given for the vehicle Chris Spotz was supposedly driving at that point, which was taken, considering that he had been freely distinguished as a suspect on account of his missing sweetheart by the LAPD.

Weeks after the fact, on Walk 22, policing San Bernardino, California, were at long last ready to detect his vehicle. The experience prompted a 60-mile fast vehicle pursue. Notwithstanding, before he could be captured, Spotz shot himself in the head as police attempted to stop him in Crown, California.

On Walk 27, under seven days after the fact, a dead body was tracked down covered in a shallow grave in a backwoods near Nevada Region exactly 60 miles north of Sacramento. Adea Shabani’s particular tattoos assisted specialists with distinguishing the body. Her demise was then formally considered a homicide after an assessment uncovered that she experienced gruff power injury to the head.