CA CA - Lydia "Dia" Abrams, 65, Idyllwild, 6 Jun 2020

[jash]

Thank You for the extended version @tvscum. I knew DG of News8 wouldn't let us down.

I will say he's much more of a talker and a charmer than I expected, especially when he talks about his wonderful mother. According to him, he loved his mother and says some beautiful things about who she was as a person. Says they talked on the phone often. Really? He says it was just attorneys talking to attorneys fighting it out - nothing was taken personally between he and his mother and there was always love - and he was never going to take her working truck. Gee, Isidro seemed to know Dia was worried he would take the truck. Other people say Dia voiced worries, even fear, about him. Now, he says they were close, but he didn't seem to see her for the past year or more from what I can gather.

When Clinton did finally get the truck, it was advised he should to look for evidence inside it. He found BLOOD in the truck! Listen at around the 16:30 minute mark of the extended video. We do have to remember that while Clinton wasn't around much, KH sure was, and he was the last person to have seen Dia before she went missing.

After a year of silence, no pleas to the public, he feels it's time to speak. He wants to find her body, so her soul can rest. (And maybe because she'll be declared dead which would be better for the legal battle over the estate up ahead. Or, maybe he's hoping a body might mean an arrest of the current trustees.)

MOO, make no mistake about it, the adult children want the property to stay in the family. They want control of Dia's part of the e$tate. The son says, she always meant for them to have it. Well, that goes against what Dia told others. I don't buy that he and his sister didn't mind being left nothing. Clinton didn't mind being crossed out of the trust? He thinks she would've changed that in time.

Sure, he admits it looks like all parties had a chance of financial gain, but the son says he never expected to directly receive anything from his mother. What does he mean when he says "they had won that battle already"? They thought they won that battle, but surprise, surprise, look whose running the ranch.

What about that letter they found.... she was afraid for her life... oh, I wish we could read that letter. Clinton couldn't talk about it. He does seem to want to keep the integrity of the investigation intact. LE knows about it. Why has LE seemed to let this case go so cold? One thing we seem to agree on is Clinton thinks his mother has been murdered, and so do we.

All JMO. I would love to hear your take on the extended interview.

I feel bad for Dia. Her relationship with her children sounds very complicated and awkward and my guess is their lawyers spoke more frequently than they did directly. I don't think her kids have anything to do with her disappearance but I feel like this interview was done partially as an attempt to improve their image/the public perception. He seems to be "blaming" a lot of things on the lawyers and chalking it up to strategy (e.g. with the old truck), but lawyers act based on their clients' wishes and information. I find it hard to believe that none of it was taken personally and they were able to have normal love-filled conversations despite the ongoing legal battle.

Regarding him saying they were winning that battle, I think he was talking about Dia's challenge of the prenup and the estate her late husband left their children (not Dia's estate/the ranch). Sounds like the kids got the lion's share from their dad, although according to her son, he would wire Dia money when she needed it. Dia seems like a strong, independent women so it couldn't have been easy to rely on her kids for things she needed...especially if she felt that money should have been hers.

I agree about the letter! He looked especially uncomfortable/fidgety when that topic came up. I wonder if Dia talked about her kids in the letter.

The info about the bloody pillow in the truck was a surprise. Not convinced it's connected to Dia's disappearance... would the person responsible just leave it there for so long? I'm trying to recall... was blood evidence found in KH's camper?

I would love to hear the thoughts of Dia's friends. I feel so sad for Dia... she loved animals and helping people in need. She deserved to have the same in return.

 

[adot0902]

Was watching the interview and they put the trust screen shot up at 3:28 in the non extended version, Clinton's last name is spelled wrong, which is also Dia's last name.... Just another interesting tidbit.

 

[adot0902]

I'm prefacing my next picture with this, I work in finance and deal with trusts pretty frequently, although I am in Pennsylvania, I can't remember EVER seeing this.

However I don't think this is illegal, but definitely an oddity at least for me, I'd like your opinions.
The lawyer who drafter the 2020 Trust is also the notary on said trust.


ALSO one more VERY interesting piece of information is a notary license is good for four years, check his expiration date, it's hinky. It's almost to the day of his notarizing this document that he would have received his stamp and license.

Source: I am a licensed notary.

 

[Sun Spot]

MOO. Charming EH. So was Ted Bundy.
MOO, Clinton Abrams is from the same mold as Ted Bundy, a complete msnipulating psychopath.

 

[adot0902]

MOO. Charming EH. So was Ted Bundy.
MOO, Clinton Abrams is from the same mold as Ted Bundy, a complete msnipulating psychopath.

MOO I don't see it.... Clinton already has half of his dads estate the man is already a multi millionaire a couple times over (I don't know him just saw this in my investigation of other court docs related to this case, mainly Clem's trust) what in the world would be his motive?
My favorite saying I learned from Websleuths if it has hooves and a tail don't go looking for a Zebra.

 

[Megnut]

The fact the Dia went missing, to me, makes all those documents suspect.

I support her children's suit to challenge them, on whatever grounds.

Dia isn't here to speak for herself or vouch for her genuine intentions.

Looks to me like someone(s) convinced her or coerced her or forged for her... to sign her assets over, and once mission was accomplished, did away with her.

Who stood to gain and who had greatest access?

I rest my case.

JMO

 

[Curious Me]

I want to reserve the right to not have a firm opinion on who I trust in the group of people with possible financial, maybe greedy, motives. It's a very complicated case, perhaps a complex, twisted plot and ugly scheme. I suspect Dia sensed something. At this point, I trust no one.

The attorney Dia used specializes in "Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts, Probate, Conservatorships, Power of Attorney, Corporate Law and Personal Injury to clients" and has for many years. He appears to have his own practice and been in the area for quite some time. I'm not sure I find it suspect that he got his renewal Notary stamp three months before he notarized Dia's paperwork.

Dia's attorney and notary seems to be standing behind the bold changes Dia made on May 22, 2020. Remember, on June 7th, she disappeared, so soon after seeing that attorney to change her paperwork, and of course, people find that suspicious... I certainly do. I don't know if the attorney could've been fooled by an imposter or noticed if Dia was under duress. He seemed to defend Dia's choices in the video, which would not help her children.

The children have their own attorneys and motives for wanting to get KH & DF out as trustees. I found some of the adult children's finger pointing rather silly, not supported enough. For a simple example, using DF's daughter saying on social media that DF & KH have been a couple since they met is basically rumor. The Airbnb reviews were more substantial, IMO. (Also, that is not her bio daughter either, as far as I know. The legal paperwork reminded me of an ugly court divorce.)

I expected Dia's children to have hired a PI and find out details on the actual time of Dia's disappearance. What happened to Mom? It seems they are more concerned about estate matters. Property and money is basically the issue the children really have, which is totally different than real concern for their missing mother.
386657392085631695822955526165514533866698.pdf (cbs8.com)

MOO, it doesn't matter how much money the son already has. We all know some people never have enough and are motivated by greed. I actually doubt son sent his mother money often or wanted to make sure she had enough to run the ranch. Take a look at the their rebuttal to Dia's request in the PreNup Probate battle. Why did Dia seem to cross them out of getting anything? Son made it sound perhaps completely different than the reality of it. Some have said she was afraid of him. He portrayed their relationship as warm and loving.

Clinton gave a good interview and came across as somewhat honest and direct, but I must take into consideration the fact that perhaps his relationship with his mother wasn't as he said. I certainly don't believe much of what KH says either.

There are no named suspects, no body, no LE stating anything. Dia is still missing and it's about her estate, not about arranging search parties or pressing LE for more investigation. That is sad.

This is all my own thoughts and MOO.

 

[mlhenn]

Lydia Kenshalo Abrams – The Charley Project

Case file added June 9, 2021

Lydia Kenshalo Abrams

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Details of Disappearance
Dia was last seen at the Bonita Vista Ranch, a 117-acre property she owned east of Idyllwild in Riverside County, California, on June 6, 2020. She has never been heard from again.

Dia is the widow of Clem Abrams, a wealthy La Jolla, California developer, who died in 2018. At the time of her disappearance, she was involved in a court battle with her and Clem's two adult children, Crisara Brett Abrams and Clinton Karcher Abrams, over Clem's estate. Clem had nominated the children to act as executors and trustees of his estate.

At the time of her disappearance, Dia was attempting to have her 1984 prenuptial agreement with Clem invalidated. The agreement, which was to govern their assets both in life and following either of their deaths, provided that Clem's income would remain his separate property, and Dia's income would remain her separate property. Dia did not work during their 34-year marriage and did not accrue any significant income or property of her own, while Clem's assets grew by the millions.

When Clem died, Dia inherited some of his properties, as well as a marital trust. At the time of her disappearance, in addition to trying to get the prenuptial agreement invalidated, Dia was seeking $6.7 million from her late husband's estate to fund the marital trust. Crisara and Clinton had both filed an opposition to their mother's petition.

Dia had kept some of her assets in trust. When the trust was initially established in 2016, the beneficiaries in the event of her death or incapacitation were to be Crisara and Clinton. An unsigned, partially handwritten clause was added to the trust in 2018, excluding the children as beneficiaries; it said: "Trustor leaves nothing but her love and affection to her son, Clinton Abrams, and daughter Crisara Abrams."

Just fifteen days prior to 2020 her disappearance, Dia restated the trust, transferring ownership of the Bonita Vista Ranch and two other properties into it and naming Keith Harper as a trustee and the beneficiary of her estate. A second trustee was also named; this was was Diana Fedder, a neighbor who lived ten miles from the Bonita Vista Ranch and helped Dia manage her properties. Photos of both of them are posted with this case summary.

Harper and Fedder took over the trust and began co-managing the Bonita Vista Ranch after Abrams went missing, and Harper filed a power of attorney document claiming control of the ranch. According to Fedder, Dia had not wanted her children to ever become trustees of her property. Harper stated he and Fedder plan to make the Bonita Vista Ranch into an animal reserve, and that this was also Dia's wish.

Harper lived with Abrams at the time of her disappearance and claims to be her fiance, and he was also the last person known to have seen her. He said he had lunch with Abrams on the afternoon of her disappearance and last saw her at 2:30 p.m., when he went to mow the grass and do other ranch work. When he returned at 7:30 p.m., he said, Abrams was gone, leaving her purse, cellular phone, keys and Ford pickup truck behind.

The next day, Harper notified Isidro Garcia, a longtime ranch employee, that Abrams was missing and said friends and neighbors were searching for her. That same day, her disappearance was reported to the police and a search and rescue operation was launched. By this time Harper had left and driven his recreational vehicle (RV) out of state, to New Mexico and Colorado, for what he said was business. He returned to the ranch later in the week.

Police searching for Dia by air with helicopters noticed marijuana greenhouses at the Sky High Ranch, a rental property she owned about a mile and a half west of the Bonita Vista Ranch. As a result, they got a search warrant, searched the Sky High Ranch and seized more than 2,300 marijuana plants and 357 pounds of processed marijuana. Marijuana grow operations are common in Riverside County. Garcia stated he didn't think Dia's disappearance had anything to do with the grow operation at the Sky High Ranch; he stated she never went there.

The police served a search warrant on the Bonita Vista Rancha few days after Dia's disappearance, describing it as a "possible homicide." They evidence including a tan bedsheet, a Band-Aid and toilet paper, all stained with possible blood; two spent bullet casings with F and REM markings, two handwritten letters, and a Netgear router. In the subsequent days law enforcement traveled to New Mexico, impounded Harper's RV and removed a section of the front driver's seat as evidence. They searched Harper's storage business in Aztec, New Mexico, but the list of evidence taken has not been publicly released.

It's worth noting that Harper has a 2000 conviction for domestic violence; he was initially charged with sexual assault and kidnapping, both felonies, in that case, but pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after his his victim refused to testify against him. In 2011, he was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault for groping two women on a snowmobile tour and ordered to register a sex offender, and in 2014 he was sentenced to four months in jail for probation violation. All of his convictions are out of Colorado.

Following Dia's disappearance, her children filed a petition seeking to have Harper and Fedder removed as trustees of their mother's estate. Their petition asked the court to appoint, instead, a neutral third party to manage Dia's trust and estate.

Clinton and Crisara's petition stated Harper has refused to allow Dia's family to inspect the trust and get an accounting of it; that the mortgage on the Bonita Vista Ranch has not been paid since August 2020; that the mortgage on another of Dia's properties has not been paid since June 2020; that Harper and Fedder are romantically involved and have been since before Dia's disappearance; and that the police were investigating Harper "as a potential perpetrator of the crime or crimes that led to Dia's disappearance." Crisara and Clinton also claimed in the petition that Dia had left a note behind when she disappeared, claiming she was afraid for her life.

In a media interview Clinton gave on the one-year anniversary of his mother's disappearance, he said Dia was not engaged to Harper or anyone at the time she went missing. This was the first interview either of Dia's children had granted to the press, and by granting it Clinton was acting against the advice of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office. He said he believed his mother had been murdered.

Harper continued to live on Dia's ranch; if he is not removed as trustee and beneficiary, and if Dia is not found within five years, he could have her declared legally dead and inherit her property. Dia's case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.

 

[Megnut]

It has not been mentioned but I wonder about the original lawsuit. Perhaps her husband left the trust in the children's name, believing whole heartedly that they'd take care of her AND protecting her kind soul from just the sort of scam that's occurred since.

It is horrifying to me that a woman can go missing but get lost in the dollar signs. It is clear to me who benefits from her disappearance.

Her assets and property IMO should be frozen, protected by a third party, before they're stolen completely. Or lost to foreclosure.

I hope LE is hot on this, that Dia can be recovered and the truth is exposed.

JMO

 

[adot0902]

I want to reserve the right to not have a firm opinion on who I trust in the group of people with possible financial, maybe greedy, motives. It's a very complicated case, perhaps a complex, twisted plot and ugly scheme. I suspect Dia sensed something. At this point, I trust no one.

The attorney Dia used specializes in "Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts, Probate, Conservatorships, Power of Attorney, Corporate Law and Personal Injury to clients" and has for many years. He appears to have his own practice and been in the area for quite some time. I'm not sure I find it suspect that he got his renewal Notary stamp three months before he notarized Dia's paperwork.

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Can we please keep the facts we actually know in this minimal information case accurate, it was NOT three months, it was ONE month. February to May is one month. Also we don't know if it was a renewal or if he got it for the first time. If you quote me please use my post.

 

[sassyblue]

Can we please keep the facts we actually know in this minimal information case accurate, it was NOT three months, it was ONE month. February to May is one month. Also we don't know if it was a renewal or if he got it for the first time. If you quote me please use my post.

BBM February to May is one month?

 

[adot0902]

BBM February to May is one month?

Oh jeez, apparently if you are sleep deprived! Can I blame it on using an old Roman calendar from like 2BC. WOOOOOO sorry about that.

I wish I could fix my post to make it correct so no one quotes my one month.

 

[Desert Cruiser]

Thank You for the extended version @tvscum. I knew DG of News8 wouldn't let us down.

I will say he's much more of a talker and a charmer than I expected, especially when he talks about his wonderful mother. According to him, he loved his mother and says some beautiful things about who she was as a person. Says they talked on the phone often. Really? He says it was just attorneys talking to attorneys fighting it out - nothing was taken personally between he and his mother and there was always love - and he was never going to take her working truck. Gee, Isidro seemed to know Dia was worried he would take the truck. Other people say Dia voiced worries, even fear, about him. Now, he says they were close, but he didn't seem to see her for the past year or more from what I can gather.
When Clinton did finally get the truck, it was advised he should to look for evidence inside it. He found BLOOD in the truck! Listen at around the 16:30 minute mark of the extended video. We do have to remember that while Clinton wasn't around much, KH sure was, and he was the last person to have seen Dia before she went missing.

After a year of silence, no pleas to the public, he feels it's time to speak. He wants to find her body, so her soul can rest. (And maybe because she'll be declared dead which would be better for the legal battle over the estate up ahead. Or, maybe he's hoping a body might mean an arrest of the current trustees.)

MOO, make no mistake about it, the adult children want the property to stay in the family. They want control of Dia's part of the e$tate. The son says, she always meant for them to have it. Well, that goes against what Dia told others. I don't buy that he and his sister didn't mind being left nothing. Clinton didn't mind being crossed out of the trust? He thinks she would've changed that in time.

Sure, he admits it looks like all parties had a chance of financial gain, but the son says he never expected to directly receive anything from his mother. What does he mean when he says "they had won that battle already"? They thought they won that battle, but surprise, surprise, look whose running the ranch.

What about that letter they found.... she was afraid for her life... oh, I wish we could read that letter. Clinton couldn't talk about it. He does seem to want to keep the integrity of the investigation intact. LE knows about it. Why has LE seemed to let this case go so cold? One thing we seem to agree on is Clinton thinks his mother has been murdered, and so do we.

All JMO. I would love to hear your take on the extended interview.

I've always said that LE let the truck go without proper examination, and it appears to be the case, blood in the truck discovery after the fact is pretty strange...
1. A bloody pillow? comfort? Bizarre...
2. Highly unlikely to be a plant...
3. LE would certainly listen to the interview if there were discrepancies it would ne noted...

Also at the 2:58 mark in the extended video it mention naming names...
At the 3:32 mark is that a cleaning person in the backgound?

 

[Desert Cruiser]

Nevermind. In the extended interview (thanks, tvscum!) it is clear the neighbour who saw Dia that morning is not DF.

Comment in the extended video that the cinnamon rolls were for a terminally ill person? I guess that is not DF?MOO

 

[Curious Me]

Extended News 8 interview with Clinton Abrams, son of missing woman Dia Abrams

My impressions and MOO only-- I need to watch this again. Usually, there's so much info underneath the surface and non-verbal clues. However, this was a very smooth interview. He presents himself as non-judgmental and open-minded. A bit rehearsed? He knows how to cast suspicion on others, without coming right out with it. Yet, he and sister are taking KH and DF to court with very finger pointing paperwork.

...Also at the 2:58 mark in the extended video it mention naming names...
At the 3:32 mark is that a cleaning person in the background?

Glad you pointed it out. The people not named, as far as Clinton knows, have not been interviewed by LE. Hmm... I wish he would name names. I wish he'd demand whoever he's talking about to be interviewed by LE. This case needs to move forward.

Wow, that person at the 3:32 mark is just leaning on the counter listening to the interview. I wonder if she's with the news crew, or like you say, a cleaning person.

I'm curious, so please don't mind my stupid questions. At around the same minute mark as the lady leaning on the counter, there is a dripping machine on that counter. What does it do? Please, somebody, what is that type machine???

 

[Curious Me]

I guess it can't hurt to revisit the start of this ugly tale. Just complaining here-- I started following this case when there were six people missing from Idyllwild, then Dia's case. I thought it was going to be a more simple missing person's case. Nooo, I've have had to dive into legal paperwork, learn probate and trust guidelines & legalities, etc., Hard trying to keep the facts straight, and it's been hard on my eyesight too. A year later, and we're no where towards Justice for Dia.

It has not been mentioned but I wonder about the original lawsuit. Perhaps her husband left the trust in the children's name, believing whole heartedly that they'd take care of her AND protecting her kind soul from just the sort of scam that's occurred since...

I don't know if you know the whole story. It goes back to her signing this PreNup under duress to get married while she was pregnant with the son. It goes back that far. ASAIK, and correct me if I'm wrong about how I understand it.

She was married to Clem a long time, and he accumulated more properties, power, and wealth throughout their marriage, but in the end wanted to stick to the PreNup she signed so many years ago. (Yes, it says in Dia's Probate Petition that Clem did intend to adequately provide in his lifetime for his spouse. However, MOO, the children were given Clem's blessings it seems to rule over their mother via the Trusts.) Now, the children denied her request to honor a property tax law change that would've given her more money to run the ranch. She also requested a disregard to the PreNup, but they denied her requests via the courts.

Dia's Petition:
Pleading Wizard (cbs8.com)

Their opposition:
37-2019-00030018-PR-TR-CTL_ROA-17_11-01-19_Objections_Other_1598084000131.pdf (cbs8.com)

This is where we started to learn of her court battle with the children.
Woman missing near Idyllwild was in court battle over multi-million dollar estate | cbs8.com
Author: David Gotfredson (Investigative Producer)
Published: 8:50 PM PDT August 25, 2020 Updated: 12:11 AM PDT August 26, 2020

At the 1:40 minute mark is what I call important news. Probate Court Battle with her children to Invalidate her Prenuptial Agreement with their father. Whoa, I didn't even guess at that angle. Millions are at stake.

It's complicated.

 

[Megnut]

It remains that she's missing, someone admits to being the last to see her....

I don't think Dia is anywhere near her properties.... but she could be halfway to Durango.

She left her purse where she always does so IMO she didn't go anywhere far by her own design.

JMO

 

[stuntpuppy]

Lydia Kenshalo Abrams – The Charley Project

Case file added June 9, 2021

Lydia Kenshalo Abrams

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Details of Disappearance
Dia was last seen at the Bonita Vista Ranch, a 117-acre property she owned east of Idyllwild in Riverside County, California, on June 6, 2020. She has never been heard from again.

Dia is the widow of Clem Abrams, a wealthy La Jolla, California developer, who died in 2018. At the time of her disappearance, she was involved in a court battle with her and Clem's two adult children, Crisara Brett Abrams and Clinton Karcher Abrams, over Clem's estate. Clem had nominated the children to act as executors and trustees of his estate.

At the time of her disappearance, Dia was attempting to have her 1984 prenuptial agreement with Clem invalidated. The agreement, which was to govern their assets both in life and following either of their deaths, provided that Clem's income would remain his separate property, and Dia's income would remain her separate property. Dia did not work during their 34-year marriage and did not accrue any significant income or property of her own, while Clem's assets grew by the millions.

When Clem died, Dia inherited some of his properties, as well as a marital trust. At the time of her disappearance, in addition to trying to get the prenuptial agreement invalidated, Dia was seeking $6.7 million from her late husband's estate to fund the marital trust. Crisara and Clinton had both filed an opposition to their mother's petition.

Dia had kept some of her assets in trust. When the trust was initially established in 2016, the beneficiaries in the event of her death or incapacitation were to be Crisara and Clinton. An unsigned, partially handwritten clause was added to the trust in 2018, excluding the children as beneficiaries; it said: "Trustor leaves nothing but her love and affection to her son, Clinton Abrams, and daughter Crisara Abrams."

Just fifteen days prior to 2020 her disappearance, Dia restated the trust, transferring ownership of the Bonita Vista Ranch and two other properties into it and naming Keith Harper as a trustee and the beneficiary of her estate. A second trustee was also named; this was was Diana Fedder, a neighbor who lived ten miles from the Bonita Vista Ranch and helped Dia manage her properties. Photos of both of them are posted with this case summary.

Harper and Fedder took over the trust and began co-managing the Bonita Vista Ranch after Abrams went missing, and Harper filed a power of attorney document claiming control of the ranch. According to Fedder, Dia had not wanted her children to ever become trustees of her property. Harper stated he and Fedder plan to make the Bonita Vista Ranch into an animal reserve, and that this was also Dia's wish.

Harper lived with Abrams at the time of her disappearance and claims to be her fiance, and he was also the last person known to have seen her. He said he had lunch with Abrams on the afternoon of her disappearance and last saw her at 2:30 p.m., when he went to mow the grass and do other ranch work. When he returned at 7:30 p.m., he said, Abrams was gone, leaving her purse, cellular phone, keys and Ford pickup truck behind.

The next day, Harper notified Isidro Garcia, a longtime ranch employee, that Abrams was missing and said friends and neighbors were searching for her. That same day, her disappearance was reported to the police and a search and rescue operation was launched. By this time Harper had left and driven his recreational vehicle (RV) out of state, to New Mexico and Colorado, for what he said was business. He returned to the ranch later in the week.

Police searching for Dia by air with helicopters noticed marijuana greenhouses at the Sky High Ranch, a rental property she owned about a mile and a half west of the Bonita Vista Ranch. As a result, they got a search warrant, searched the Sky High Ranch and seized more than 2,300 marijuana plants and 357 pounds of processed marijuana. Marijuana grow operations are common in Riverside County. Garcia stated he didn't think Dia's disappearance had anything to do with the grow operation at the Sky High Ranch; he stated she never went there.

The police served a search warrant on the Bonita Vista Rancha few days after Dia's disappearance, describing it as a "possible homicide." They evidence including a tan bedsheet, a Band-Aid and toilet paper, all stained with possible blood; two spent bullet casings with F and REM markings, two handwritten letters, and a Netgear router. In the subsequent days law enforcement traveled to New Mexico, impounded Harper's RV and removed a section of the front driver's seat as evidence. They searched Harper's storage business in Aztec, New Mexico, but the list of evidence taken has not been publicly released.

It's worth noting that Harper has a 2000 conviction for domestic violence; he was initially charged with sexual assault and kidnapping, both felonies, in that case, but pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault after his his victim refused to testify against him. In 2011, he was found guilty of misdemeanor sexual assault for groping two women on a snowmobile tour and ordered to register a sex offender, and in 2014 he was sentenced to four months in jail for probation violation. All of his convictions are out of Colorado.

Following Dia's disappearance, her children filed a petition seeking to have Harper and Fedder removed as trustees of their mother's estate. Their petition asked the court to appoint, instead, a neutral third party to manage Dia's trust and estate.

Clinton and Crisara's petition stated Harper has refused to allow Dia's family to inspect the trust and get an accounting of it; that the mortgage on the Bonita Vista Ranch has not been paid since August 2020; that the mortgage on another of Dia's properties has not been paid since June 2020; that Harper and Fedder are romantically involved and have been since before Dia's disappearance; and that the police were investigating Harper "as a potential perpetrator of the crime or crimes that led to Dia's disappearance." Crisara and Clinton also claimed in the petition that Dia had left a note behind when she disappeared, claiming she was afraid for her life.

In a media interview Clinton gave on the one-year anniversary of his mother's disappearance, he said Dia was not engaged to Harper or anyone at the time she went missing. This was the first interview either of Dia's children had granted to the press, and by granting it Clinton was acting against the advice of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office. He said he believed his mother had been murdered.

Harper continued to live on Dia's ranch; if he is not removed as trustee and beneficiary, and if Dia is not found within five years, he could have her declared legally dead and inherit her property. Dia's case remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.

So interesting to me that the last line here states that if Dia is not found within 5 years Harper could inherit the ranch. Didn't Harper tell the Hispanic worker "I hope I live another 5 years" Coincidence? Also, I have thought from the beginning that Dia was gone and done away with long before KH reporter her missing. But now it seems that she was seen delivering cookies or something she made to a sick friend that day. IF this proves true....then Harper had far less time to dispose of her than I thought and he may have just made some errors along the way in his haste....I'm hoping. In any event LE has more information than we do and I hope we hear something soon. I think it's very obvious that KH knows exactly where she is...he's not looking...he's not asking questions and he always speaks of her in past tense. HE KNOWS!

 

[Curious Me]

Cow and MOO here.
He hopes he lives five years, but if he didn't do the deed then whoever else might've done it and stands to benefit might make sure he doesn't make it five years. Watch your back KH.

Yes, he looks extremely suspicious, but it's possible he wasn't the smart one to hatch this plan and that there's others involved along with him. There's others that would stand to benefit, IMO.

In any case, Dia's children expected her properties and estate to stay within the family, and I believe they will fight to wrestle it away from KH. They probably feel that's their property and was all along.

 

[Curious Me]

...I have thought from the beginning that Dia was gone and done away with long before KH reporter her missing. But now it seems that she was seen delivering cookies or something she made to a sick friend that day. IF this proves true....then Harper had far less time to dispose of her than I thought

Why didn't KH throw in the cinnamon rolls in his account?

You and I always wanted to hear from the hot water repair person, and now it's the cinnamon roll recipient. We have no idea if LE confirmed any of this. Both stories though still put KH as seeing her last. It's the timing, as you have mentioned, that matters to be able to find her.