the events in the following episode took place in mid March 2018 2 weeks after a day of shame Bonnie went missing early and Ted Bundy's serial killing spree. Police released the details that they knew about the suspect so far. They showed a sketch of him. They said his name was Ted, and they said he drove a light brown Volkswagen Beetle. So naturally, several people who knew Bundy, including his girlfriend at the time, told police the person they were looking for is likely Ted Bundy. Despite at least four different tips coming in, the police never investigated him. He went on to abduct and kill at least a dozen more victims before he was ever brought to justice. So why wasn't this very credible tip for a string of tips ever investigated? The reason is that it was buried amongst hundreds of other tips flooding into the police department from everyone from crackpots to psychics, too. Well, meeting do gooders.

Tragically, this is a very common occurrence. A crucial tip that will break a case early on is just completely ignored. That's why when Jaden told me the first credible tip had come in for the a day is Shibani disappearance. I thought that this could be our Ted Bundy moments. I'm a big supporter of Ring Ring. In addition, to be one of this podcast first sponsors is also making my home safer. I'd literally have ring doorbells and floodlights on all of the doors to my home and from every angle. I can literally see who is approaching my home at any time at all hours. And not only that, with the ring app, I gave someone else who I trust my passwords so they can see as well. In case I need to know, anything may sound like I'm paranoid, but if you're doing this podcast and especially the next season of this podcast,

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I just wanted to give it up. They just got a call from Angel. You got a call from a guy Anonymous didn't leave a name saying that he saw a day off and she was being put into the bed of a pickup truck out in front of her apartment. And then the truck took off and drove south down to Hollywood Boulevard. He gives us a description of the truck, and he even as the plate number we ran the plate. It's a day is on again, off again. Boyfriend.

His name, Jayden tells me, is Chris Spots.

I mean, he's another like, uh, acting student, and now he's like a you know, out of work actor.

You still have my money. And what's the procedure scene? All I need to see all I need to hear. Apparently, Chris is a senior student at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting, and today it was dating him in secret. His name doesn't appear the press about the case, and it's nowhere on a day's instagram or social media. Obviously, it's essential to know just who this guy is, why his relationship with the day has been kept a secret and, more importantly, where he is. I check in with Angel a Day, his boss at the mobile Hookah Lounge, who received the original tip. Tell me about the anonymous call for a second.

Yeah, I get an anonymous call. It was a private number. The guy says that, you know, he saw what fit the description perfectly of Chris throwing her into his truck and he said into the bed of the truck. And he described the truck, which later turned out to be Christmas truck. He also gave us the license plate, which again later turned out to be Christmas truck. And he said that she looked a little dizzy or dazed or as if she's been drugged. Angel tells me that he already informed the police about the anonymous call and sent them to Chris's address, and I called the cops immediately, and I said, I just got an anonymous tip this is what it was. This is the address that I have on file for this guy.

You know, maybe she's held up there or we believe that she's helped up there. And it was in Studio City, the cops. I mean, I think it was like, two minutes or something like that. And they had They were they were on it. They responded and they were there. And it was like, maybe six or seven cop cars that came out. They went up to the building and so we were waiting downstairs, So you can imagine just the emotions that were running through to our head. We thought we we felt like we we got it. It's just a matter of time of the cops coming down with him in handcuffs and her, you know,

coming down with her walking down. You know, I remember even we heard like a like a wrestling, like somebody was shouting, yelling And it all of us, of course, like her heart's dropped. But at that point we figured out it was just people in the parking lot and the cops came down and they said, this is not where he lives, you know, this. There's an Asian couple that lives here. Angel goes on to tell me that he's going to track down Maur possible addresses for Chris. Meanwhile, Jayden's gone ahead and put on alert on Chris's license plate number in case he didn't know. Your license plate is basically being read and recorded on a regular basis,

and police, private investigators and way too many other professionals can find out exactly where Car has been for as far back as you can possibly imagine. So while Jaden tracks down Chris, I investigate this guy further. To start with, I speak to One of the day is closest friends from acting school and supposedly the last person to have spoken with the DEA. Christiane note that although the names are very similar, Cristian is obviously a very different person than Chris Spots. A Day is boyfriend. It's the first thing is how far back to you in a day ago. I've met her, um, on October off 2016 when we started school, we go to see in schools, so basically, yeah,

like she became my family here. Was Chris there then, or no creases in school In acting school, he was a student before, like he had graduated before. Before we started. I think I'm not sure about the history in line there, and I didn't meet him until we did a class together. There was Shakespeare. That's what they worked together. For the first time on where everything started, she started feeling like, Oh my God, this guy's interesting. He's so knowledgeable. He's a good actor.

I never saw anything of that in him. I don't know. I'm very I like people. That's transparent. That is a And I hung out with him a few times. I talked to him. Everything's fine. He's nice. But then he was engaged. Obviously me, I did not agree at all with the circumstance, like I'm like, You're crazy. How can you trust somebody that's engaged, even know whatever they're telling? She she said it like,

you know how I like drama, not like you, but it's too dramatic, too much. I don't even know if she was telling the truth, because the last time on Tuesday, when we took out all the stops telling me things, you know, I get very attached and I adore you, and I don't want anything to go wrong, but you're not listening to me. So I'm done. I'm done. Emma, A days old friend from Macedonia, he met an episode One had more secrets and more recent information to share about a day's relationship with Chris.

So she told me that there is a guy from a school increase that is it's supposed to be her partner in that scene. And then they started, you know, Brecht practicing and exercising the scene before they went to the performance. They started seeing each other, and then she figured it out that he has a fiance. She's telling me all he's gonna leave. Mary. Mary is the name of the fiance. He's gonna leave Mary and go and Kim with me. And, you know, we're gonna start something. I even know that he proposed her hand and apply. Did they fly for a two bedroom apartment? So you said he proposed to her?

Yes, that was that December. Well, she was while she was in Macedonia. Then she came back and she was ignoring him. She didn't want to continue in this game, so she just called me and she just school me and told me, Am I have to tell you something. I'm very happy. But I don't know how to tell you. I'm like, Tell me. And she said he proposed me and he said, The only way we can be together it's to get married. Then way have to move together. Speaking with Emma,

it's clear why this relationship has been kept secret. Not only does Chris have a fiance named Mary, who's also in L. A, but he had recently proposed to a day. So he's living with one fiance and cheating on her with the DEA, who he has also promised to move in with. Clearly, this guy has gotten himself into a serious bind. One of the last times Christiane spoke to a Daya, she invited a day, had to go to Mexico with her. This trip was for the very same weekend that a day it went missing. Maybe if a day had actually taken this trip, we wouldn't be looking for her today. And then I invited her to Mexico,

and on Friday morning I text her. Are you coming with me to Mexico? Leaving notes? Okay. And and then she's like, No, no, no. I fell asleep on it. Are you okay? Did you fix things with Chris? And she said, Yeah, yeah. When the fiance is not in the picture. Well,

lovey dovey like, Yeah, everything's fine. Okay, that's perfect. But we were here and she told me I might go to Sacramento. And I'm like, with why? I like, you know, because I thought everything was going toe. What's done? Yeah. If everything works out and I go with him was I remember thinking like this woman, man, she's crazy,

you know? And then she did say Sacramento, she takes it. I knew I knew that that she had to go to Sacramento and she did mention that she was going to go probably to the funeral. Off he's out of court. So that appears to solve one mystery. A dais last text asking where she can get red candles a day of May have wanted them for the funeral of Chris's uncle in Sacramento. What's strange, though, is that this is the first time anyone's mentioned that a day I had any plans for the weekend. It's also the first time I've heard about Sacramento and this funeral it as far as I know, no one's been searching for a day a outside of Southern California or even looking into this. It feels like so much about a Daya is either being hidden for some reason or just not looked into that. It's hurting the search for a way. They hit the sidewalk this evening here in Hollywood, getting the word out about Adia Shivani.

I don't know. I don't know what you think. I I just want to find Her 25 year old actress left her apartment here at the duet on Wilcox in Hollywood, and no one has seen her since. Which is out of character. This is not her. This is not her. Something is going on with her. We don't know where she's. It's just so sad way just hoping she's a life. Shibani, who was a frequent user of social media, has been off the grid, which are calling her messaging area e mailing her Facebook, her instagram in her every every way, nothing,

nothing on the last text. On that day that she disappeared, it had to deal with red candles, not a hint at all that she might be in trouble again. A day is friend Cristian when she didn't come to school for me, it was like, Yeah, something is really, really really. It was very nervous. And I never thought it would come despite this long time. I don't know. That was you're not. Somebody had called Chris after After where Wasn't you, was it? I texted him on Sunday.

Okay. And what was the response? He responded. They wanted to read it exactly like there were. So I texted him. Hi, Chris. Just like that on his What's up on Facebook? And he answered one hour after Hey, Christiane. I spoke to Marco briefly as I was on my way to church. I haven't spoke with a day off since Friday morning. And then I said, Oh, my God, Chris,

we can't find her anywhere. I'm so scared. What was the last thing she told? You are at what time you spoke with her? We're going to the police. Her mom told me because they are very worried. And no one has any information since Friday. Please, please. If he contacts you anyway, let me know we're all freaking out. This is not normal over there. And then when I would have to I just stopped with Emma. I can't believe no one has suffered. We fought on Friday. The last thing she told me was that I would never see her again.

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the lie weeping the boyfriend's phone and the boyfriend's fiancee's phoned of what we think of the bones. He has all truck. She got like a little SUV. The other girl Prayer. The fiance. So I put a alert on both of those cars or plate readers, and we actually got to get on hers. Way went and it was like in a parking lot of the hotel, you know? And then they headed back, checked in there. And so we got a bunch of surveillance video from them there and again, just acting so weird, like coming in and even leaving one card that he would go back leaving another car. So I guess my main question is, considering that this guy was the last person seen with her and he's like, behaving super suspiciously.

Why are they not arresting him? Are taking him in for questioning? I mean, that's a good question. He checked into the jellies right there. We were on him. L a P d is working it, but they told us to lay off way could and I did put surveillance on him right there. We could talk to him, whatever, but they kind of said, Hey, you know, leave it alone. You know me. At this point, I'm like, tryingto trying to help.

The police told Jade and they had everything handled. Angel had no intention of stopping his pursuit of Chris. Since I'd last spoken to Angel, he'd actually doubled his efforts to find Chris. So, yeah, all of my staff were on it. Everybody was researching and doing whatever they can do way trying to find hackers. We were trying to get us something that we can weaken. Find this girl. We found out his third possible location. It's not like any of us know what to do in this case scenario. You know, we were jumping in over fences were whatever garages or whatever it is just kind of search the garage, which at that point, we had found out about Chris's fiance, which was a nurse right away.

I started suspecting that the nurse probably has something to do with it. She has access to medication. She knows what to give someone. If they were gonna, you know, put them until I can induce coma, she would know what to do. This is a really disturbing theory implicating Chris Spots and now his fiancee. And it all hinges on this one tip. There's a lot I need to follow up on right now. I have to find out exactly where this funeral in Sacramento took place and if Chris and a day were actually there, and I also need to get prepared to reach out directly to Chris. But the first thing I need to do right now is what I criticized police for not doing the Ted Bundy situation. I'm going to look deeper into this very incriminating tip, but I'm also going to try to find the actual tipster and get the full story for myself firsthand.

Based on my conversation with Angel and just kind of limited knowledge of the situation over there at the apartment, I have kind of an idea who it might be.

Eventually, Jaden gives me the name and the address of the person who he believes left the tip, but under strictest confidentiality and the promise not to use his name or reveal his identity. An hour later, I'm outside the apartment building where the tipster lives sitting in my car and waiting for him to come outside. Are we rolling? Yeah. Eyes when you see, by the way, that's cool. Hey, hey, man. I'm doing a podcast about the day of the girl who went missing. Okay. Yeah, I know.

You would call in a tip. I just wanted to verify it for the story. Had a second, if that's okay. I don't even use your name. By the way, is that okay? I know you don't want to be he named, if that's OK. This Alex, he works with me. I'm just I don't know if I was possibly the last one that may be seen her leave, but yeah, he seems very nervous to speak, so I reassure him and he says he'll be back in 20 minutes. I assume that he's just give me a line and he's not going to come back at all.

But eventually he returns and he pulls me into a parking garage. As he looks around nervously, he talks about everything he saw. I'll try to repeat everything he says, so you won't hear his voice much here, but it's very surprising she gets in the truck under the All you know is Do you see them leading? She's in the bed of the truck, and it's not like she's messed up on drugs. She's or is scared. She's scared of someone else who's not in the truck, and she's hiding like she's sneaking out. So she's not seen. And I'll tell you the story that they told me the story they told me was that you had seen her drug getting forced into a car. And then you wrote down the license plate number. So you never wrote down the license plate number. Unbelievable.

It's unbelievable that even the private investigator told me the story. I just told you I'm going to quote exactly what the tipster says next. Within two hours, he continues, the hook of people were out here in front looking for her, saying that she went missing and they wanted to get into her apartment when I would replay it back in my head her the way she looked like she was scared, looking for something. It was as if she was trying to get away from the hook of people by the hook of people. He actually means Angel After that, he continues. I never wanted to associate with the Armenian Suge Knight because that's what we used to call him, because to me he just weirded me out. So

I met with you, like, pulled me aside, and we talked for about, like, a good really. His story was very different than what you and Angel had told me. Based on what he said was, you saw her exiting the building in the back of the truck, but not like drugs or push into There he was. She was leaving the parking garage in the truck as if she was hiding from someone else. Then

he said two hours later, the good guy is he putting? This guy showed up today has been missing. Missing your computer here. Very weird. Well, he's very I mean, he spirit of Angel. He calls him like the Armenian Suge Knight. He's

like, I avoid that guy. I want that guy every time. I would like very staring the Armenian shit right? I get that look. I mean, I always, you know, for better or worse, I've always thought that Angel was weird, but that's very weird.

There's a simple tactic I've learned from years of reporting follow the line and so far, Angels. The only person who's apparently lied to me. What's even stranger is that a day's computer in her apartment was used after she disappeared. And who was it that was trying to get into her apartment? Toe access that computer angel coming up on the next episode of To Live and Die in L. A.

They're your name with a B. Forget the police convinced me that you had nothing to do with it, and I'll go back to the family. If that's truly what you're worried about. How do you think it looks? I'm here so that you can convince me so that I could tell them. Scott, you look like a nice guy. He's a regular guy. You're going around killing people.

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