SAN DIEGO — A new podcast is taking a deep dive into the mysterious disappearance of Dia Abrams, the La Jolla woman who went missing in 2020 from her ranch near Idyllwild.
“It’s six episodes. It drops on the 23rd of July,” said the podcast host, Lucy Sherriff.
Abrams went missing from her ranch near Idyllwild in June 2020. Her body has not been found.
“I have had hours and hours and hours of phone calls with people like Keith Harper, with Dia’s son Clinton Abrams, with her neighbors, her friends, her family,” said Sherriff.
For her upcoming podcast, BBC journalist Sherriff interviewed a lot of the same people CBS 8 has interviewed over the years, including Keith Harper, a ranch hand who claims he was Abrams’ fiancé.
He claims he was the last person to see Abrams alive on her sprawling, Bonita Vista Ranch in Mountain Center.
“Obviously, when you're the last person to see someone, you’re always become the suspect,” Harper told the podcast host.
While Harper may be a suspect, he denies any involvement and nobody has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Abrams.
At the time she went missing, the 65-year-old was in a court battle with her two adult children in San Diego over her deceased husband's multimillion dollar estate.
One of Abrams’ friends, Diana Fedder, said in the podcast that Abrams was suspicious of her son, Clinton. “She turned to me, and she said, ‘If anything ever happens to me, Clinton did it,’” said Fedder in the podcast.
Clinton Abrams also denies any involvement in his mother's disappearance.
Records show Abrams wrote her son and daughter out of her trust before she went missing, leaving her entire estate near Idyllwild to trustee Keith Harper.
“Money definitely seems to be the driving factor and the thread that runs through this entire thing,” said Sherriff.
For her podcast, Sherriff also interviewed women who were in past relationships with Harper. One spoke in the podcast anonymously about violence. “He chased me through the house. I hid, got up, and would run some more. And he backed me against the wall with his forearm in my throat,” said the woman.
Harper denies those accusations, as well as an account from a different woman described in a Colorado court case from 2000. “It said you were sexually violent. It said that you grasped somebody around their neck,” Sherriff told Harper during a telephone interview recorded for the podcast.
The Colorado court case against Harper ended in a misdemeanor conviction.
As it stands now, Abrams will be legally declared dead on June 6, 2025; at which time, Harper will receive 50% of her three-property estate near Idyllwild. Fifty percent will go to Abrams’ two adult children in San Diego.
“If anybody is in is found to be involved in her disappearance, they get nothing. So, it's like this race. They've got a year left to try and pin it on each other, which obviously is driving their narratives, “ said Sherriff.
The podcast is called, Where’s Dia. There is also a $300,000 reward being offered for information that leads to the discovery of Abrams’ remains and a criminal conviction in the case.
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