Neil Strauss Investigates Actress Disappearance in Podcast

RADIO ONLINE | Friday, February 22, 2019

To Live And Die In LA

Tenderfoot TV and podcast company Cadence13 have announced that journalist and Rolling Stone contributing editor Neil Strauss will host the new true crime podcast, "To Live and Die in LA." The investigative podcast, available on all platforms February 28, will chronicle Strauss's ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Adea Shabani. This marks the Strauss's first foray into narrative podcasting, after more than a decade of going undercover in different communities and writing based on his experiences, including "The Game and The Truth," in addition to reporting for the New York Times and Rolling Stone.

The debut season of "To Live and Die in LA," will dive into the mysterious disappearance of 25-year-old Adea Shabani, an aspiring actress and model who vanished without a trace from her apartment complex near Hollywood's famous Walk of Fame. Like thousands each year, Shabani, a native of Macedonia, moved to Hollywood with the hope of realizing her dreams of stardom. But in February, 2018, the acting student disappeared just days before her 26th birthday.

"This podcast is for the victims of this story and those who love them," said Strauss. "I hope to bring them the answers and the closure they deserve after so much pain and uncertainty. There are a lot of problems with procedure after a person goes missing. I hope this series can shed light on them, inform families in similar situations, and lead to a change in procedure, especially in the crucial first week."

"At Tenderfoot we are committed to telling important stories from a unique perspective," said Tenderfoot TV President and executive producer on the podcast Donald Albright. "Expert storytellers like Neil Strauss are essential to investigative podcasts because they stop at nothing to get the truth, but he takes it one step further. Listeners are inside of the investigation with Neil every step of the way as he's faced with decisions that change the trajectory of the case. We've stretched the true crime genre even further here, detailing a criminal investigation while in progress, all in hopes of exposing the whole truth."