The following day, Harper said, he started making calls to Abrams’ friends and neighbors. Harper said he couldn’t remember the officer’s name. The officer, according to Harper, told him law enforcement would not take any action until Abrams had been missing for three days. Harper said he called a California Highway Patrol officer Abrams knew who lived nearby. “She never left the residence,” Harper said in the deposition. Abrams’ purse and keys also were left behind. The phone was still plugged into a charger next to a nightstand. He said he called Abrams’ mobile phone and heard it ringing upstairs. and noticing Abrams’ Ford F-350 pickup still parked outside. Harper said he spent about five hours mowing the meadow before returning to the house around 7:30 p.m. Harper said the two had lunch together at the ranch, then went their separate ways - Harper to mow the meadow and Abrams to tend her horses at another property she owned in the neighboring ranch community of Garner Valley. In public statements and the sworn deposition given in a legal dispute with Abrams’ children over control of her multimillion-dollar estate, Harper, 73, said he was the last person to have seen Abrams before she went missing sometime after 2:30 p.m. Harper also claimed to be Abrams’ fiance.
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Harper said he worked to upgrade Abrams’ property, building dams, bridges, fences and helping care for her animals. She loved the outdoors and animals, so in about 2004 or 2005 she decided to trade the affluent seaside community in San Diego County for a tranquil 115-acre ranch in Mountain Center.Īfter Harper flew into Ontario International Airport to meet up with Abrams, the two quickly hit it off and Harper said he moved in with her at the ranch six months later. Abrams’ disappearanceĪbrams had been estranged for years from her husband, a wealthy La Jolla developer who died in 2018. I really want to know.”Ībrams, who was 65 when she vanished, is presumed dead, though her body has never been found. Asked what she thinks happened to her sister, Kotner said, “Your guess is as good as mine. “It’s like being in a ‘Dateline’ mystery,” said Peggy Kotner, Abrams’ sister. It is a whodunit shrouded in a tale of wealth, family estrangement and heated litigation that continues to intrigue and attract attention from local and national media. The answer has eluded Riverside County sheriff’s investigators for three years and baffled residents of the San Jacinto Mountains where Abrams abruptly disappeared on June 6, 2020. (Illustration by Staff Artist Jeff Goertzen) What happened to Dia Abrams? Bonita Vista Ranch owner Dia Abrams, right, and ranch hand Jodi Newkirk.
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