Dia Abrams’ disappearance is an intriguing tale of wealth, family estrangement and heated litigation over her assets.
Bonita Vista Ranch owner Dia Abrams, right, and ranch hand Jodi Newkirk.
Abrams had been estranged for years from her husband, a wealthy La Jolla developer who died in 2018. 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. 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.
Dia Abrams with her daughter, Crisara, and son Clinton, following the funeral of Clem Abrams at La Jolla Farms in 2019. Harper said he called a California Highway Patrol officer Abrams knew who lived nearby. 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 couldn’t remember the officer’s name.
Additionally, Imel recalls Harper telling him during the first search that he had been working on a building on the property — not mowing the meadow — when Abrams went missing. “Abrams went missing under suspicious circumstances and foul play is suspected,” Riverside County sheriff’s investigator Donald Atkinson said in a search warrant affidavit filed in Superior Court on June 16, 2020, eight days after Abrams’ disappearance.
At Abrams’ Bonita Vista Road rental property, which she named Sky High Ranch, investigators seized 2,389 marijuana plants and 357 pounds of processed marijuana, according to the warrant. “A couple of months ago a lead came in that eventually led to this,” Bianco said, declining further comment.Eighteen months after Abrams’ disappearance, Harper would be the central figure in another tragedy at the ranch. On Dec. 23, 2021, ranch hand Jodi Newkirk died in what was reported at the time to be an ATV rollover accident.
Harper, according to the report, told Hoskins that Newkirk had worked on the ranch for about 3 1/2 months. He said she had asked him for a shovel, then rode off to look for a Christmas tree, despite the fact it was raining heavily. The coroner’s investigation report noted that Loureiro did not rule out foul play in Newkirk’s death, and said there was no evidence to determine if she took the drugs herself or if someone else administered them to her.
As to Newkirk’s overdose, Harper said: “If Jodi had died from an overdose, why stage accident to cover up an overdose, why not just report the death?” Abrams’ friends and Harper said Abrams’ relationship with her children was estranged, so much so that Abrams excluded her son from her trust, “leaving nothing but her love and affection to her son,” according to the trust. She subsequently excluded her daughter, thus setting off another legal challenge between Harper and Crisara Abrams over control of her mother’s estate following her disappearance.
Law enforcement and court records show Harper had pleaded guilty in La Plata County District Court to third-degree misdemeanor assault on his ex-wife in March 2002 and was granted probation for one year. In March 2012, he was convicted in San Juan County Superior Court in Colorado of three misdemeanor counts of unlawful sexual contact for fondling women during snowmobile tours at his former business, Outlaw Tours, in Durango.
“They have attempted a hostile takeover of their mother’s properties by financial strangulation and harassment,” Harper said.
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