She’d be coming right back.īut then he went downstairs, he said. And if she was there, she wouldn’t need her phone. I then go downstairs, and I think, ‘Well, she's taken the truck.’”Īt that point, said Harper, he figured she must have gone to another building on the property called the lower horse ranch. So I think, ‘Hmm, she must be upstairs.’ So I go upstairs. When I call her, that ring goes upstairs to the bedroom. Keith Harper: “I look around, I don't see her there. I'm not sure what her concern was, but I wish I had listened.”Īnd that last strange text message, “You can’t save me from all things”?Īlthough it was marked 4:20 p.m., said Harper, he didn’t see it until he was headed back to the ranch house around 7. Keith Harper: “I look back on that and I’m deeply regretful about that. Keith Morrison: “Wait a minute, you said - she said, ‘You got a minute?’ And you said you couldn't give her a minute?” It's going to take me till dark to get it done. Keith Harper: “She said, ‘Harper, you got a minute? I have something I need to talk with you.’ And I said, ‘Dia, I’m down mowing the meadow. Keith Harper, who goes by “Harper,” told us this about what he said was the last time he spoke to Dia that day on the ranch that Saturday afternoon. Keith Harper: “Well, there's some truth to that.” Keith Morrison: “Like two angry guys looking across a chasm.” Keith Morrison: “The two of you are opposing sides in this thing in more ways than one.” To help tell Dia’s story, we’ll speak to two men at the center of her life: her son, Clinton Abrams, and the man she lived with, Keith Harper.Īs you will hear, they do not like each other - at all. That’s how much she loved the ranch and the animals."īut something - or someone - did make Dia leave her ranch and her animals. Keith Morrison: “And she wouldn’t - wouldn’t want that to happen.”Ĭlinton Abrams: “She did not want that to happen. Not even the threat of wildfires.Ĭlinton Abrams: “My mother wouldn’t leave the property when there was a large fire surrounding three sides of her land.”Ĭlinton Abrams: “She refused to leave because she felt that if she left, the fire - the department would let the structures burn.” And that's what she was out there doing every day - was being with her animals, making sure they were OK.”ĭia’s son, Clinton Abrams, said there was absolutely nothing that could make her leave that ranch of hers. She had miniature donkeys, she had a miniature pony named Fonzie. That's her baby, that cute little doggie. Julie Stanford: “So, a number one little animal is Ruby. Within its 116 acres was everything she loved: nature, peace, and most of all, said her friend Julie Stanford, her animals. A small unhurried place - rustic by intent, planted among ancient rock formations and lofty pines.Īnd just outside that little town, perched like a postcard among the trees, is Bonita Vista Ranch, the home of 65-year-old Lydia Abrams. east along famous boulevards and endless crowded freeways and out past the ranks of desert-hugging suburbs… is a winding road up and up into the San Jacinto Mountains. A few hours east of the storied beaches of southern California.
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