California Woman Mysteriously Vanishes from Her Ranch

By: Aaron Rasmussen

A California woman was living on her dream ranch in California when she disappeared during the height of the pandemic — and she hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

“Many individuals know the people and events that converged to bring about my mother’s demise,” Clinton Abrams told The Mercury News about Lydia “Dia” Abrams. “Where there is a will, there is a way; with ironclad tenacity, this case can be solved.”

Peggy Kotner told the newspaper she also hopes to find out what happened to her sister. “It’s like being in a ‘Dateline’ mystery,” she said.

On June 6, 2020, Dia Abrams, then 65, reportedly told her partner, Keith Harper, she was going to feed her horses.

According to a 2022 deposition and public statements, The Mercury News reported, Harper, 73, said he and Abrams first met on a dating website around 2014. Harper flew to meet Abrams and they hit it off. Six months later, he moved onto her multimillion-dollar 115-acre Bonita Vista Ranch in Mountain Center, where she had been living since moving from San Diego County around 15 years earlier.

The day Abrams went missing, video from a neighbor’s doorbell camera shows her dropping off food for her ailing neighbor in the morning, KFMB-TV reported.

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