To Live and Die in LA
In Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Together, they found them...sometimes at great personal risk. For the first time in a serial podcast, go inside a gripping multi-state investigation as it unfolds from the moment of the disappearance to each twist and turn in the case. Stay not only more informed than the news, but listen as the official story is dismantled with in-the-moment first-hand reporting with the leading figures in the investigation. The new #1 podcast from the team behind Up & Vanished and Atlanta Monster.
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June 12, 2019 • 46 min
In the midst of the Adea Shabani investigation, a 21 year old named Matthew Weaver went missing in Neil’s neighborhood. Listen as he and Jayden start putting together the puzzle pieces of a very strange story involving a car hanging off a cliff, a driver who’s nowhere to be found, and a disturbing cry for help that was never answered.
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May 31, 2019 • 36 min
You had questions. We have answers and more, including a surprise ending. Please ask any further questions about the podcast or the case on social media at @livedielapod and we will endeavor to answer them immediately. Meanwhile, tune in next week for an all-new case.
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May 23, 2019 • 33 min
Neil and Jayden, along with co-producer Alex, meet to walk through Adea's case from beginning to end - filling in gaps in the narrative, addressing key unresolved issues, and sharing even more information.
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May 17, 2019 • 67 min
In the season finale, Neil uncovers definitive answers. After more than a year investigating Adea's disappearance and murder, the truth will come out, but justice is in the hands of LAPD.
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May 9, 2019 • 61 min
In this special hour-long episode, Neil and Jayden follow the trail of evidence all the way to the burial site...and a new suspect emerges.
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May 2, 2019 • 47 min
Neil and Jayden uncover inconsistencies as they examine the bullet-riddled truck. Based on Google data, they retrace what could have been Adea's last day step by step.
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April 18, 2019 • 41 min
Neil travels to Fort Morgan, Colorado, to attend the funeral, and discovers skeletons (and warrants) in the closet
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April 5, 2019 • 35 min
One big break is interrupted by another. The LAPD break their silence.
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March 28, 2019 • 40 min
Neil begins to see this case from another perspective as a new theory emerges.
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March 21, 2019 • 35 min
A new witness emerges...with a shocking accusation.
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March 14, 2019 • 41 min
Everything changes after an unexpected turn of events. At a loss for words, only two come to mind...
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March 7, 2019 • 30 min
Neil finds the apartment where the main suspect is believed to be staying, and prepares for a confrontation. New information surfaces, including a very disturbing video, making it possible to reconstruct the nightmarish weeks prior to Adea’s disappearance.
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March 5, 2019 • 35 min
Surveillance video surfaces from the day of Adea's disappearance. Neil and Jayden begin to pursue the suspect from state to state.
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February 28, 2019 • 28 min
Neil chases down the first big break in Adea's recent disappearance, but new information produces more questions than answers as several suspects emerge. A secret relationship is revealed.
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February 28, 2019 • 31 min
When a 25-year-old aspiring actress and model vanishes from outside her Hollywood apartment, award-winning journalist and bestselling author Neil Strauss finds himself at the center of the investigation. What happened to Adea Shabani?
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February 22, 2019 • 2 min
From the creators of Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster comes a new investigative true crime podcast, introducing To Live and Die in LA. Rolling Stone contributing editor and New York Times best-selling author, Neil Strauss takes you inside the real time investigation into the disappearance of Adea Shabani, an aspiring actress and model who vanished without a trace from her apartment complex near Hollywood's famous Walk of Fam...
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February 20, 2019 • 2 min
To Live and Die in LA with Neil Strauss. Available now.
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