Remains found in a shallow grave in Northern California this week were positively identified as those of a 25-year-old woman who had been missing since last month, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Adea Shabani is seen in a photo released by LAPD.
An autopsy determined that Adea Shabani died of blunt force trauma and the death was determined to be a homicide, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said.
Officials used Shabani’s tattoos to positively identify her.
The grave site was found on the banks of Dry Creek in the Spencerville Wildlife Area, in an area about 50 miles north of Sacramento, officials said Tuesday. The Los Angeles Police Department contacted the law enforcement officials there on Monday to notify them that they were working an active missing persons case in the area.
LAPD and sheriff’s office investigators, along with anthropologists from Cal State Chico responded to the scene and found the remains.
The LAPD said they believed the remains were those of Shabani and that a 33-year-old man she had an intimate relationship was a person of interest in her disappearance and ultimate death.
Christopher Spotz, however, fatally shot himself last Thursday off the 91 Freeway in Riverside County after a lengthy police chase.
He believed to be the last person to see Shabani alive after survileence video showed them both in an elevator in her Hollywood apartment building on Feb. 23. Spotz had previously told detectives that he and Shabani were driving to Northern California when they got into an argument and she dropped her off along a road in Santa Clarita, though that story did not add up.
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