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Lydia "Dia" Abrams marries a wealthy La Jolla, California, real estate developer, Clem Abrams.

They have two children. After more than 30 years of marriage, Clem Abrams passes away after a long illness and Dia steps up to run the 116-acre family ranch. 

After years as a widow,  Abrams meets Keith Harper on a dating website. According to the Mercury News, Harper is a retired parole agent for the Utah Department of Corrections.  The two hit it off and six months later, Harper moves in with Dia at the ranch and becomes the ranch manager.   According to Harper, he works to upgrade the Abrams’ property:  building dams, bridges, and fences, and helping care for Abrams' animals.

Harper also claims to be Abrams’ fiance.

Keith Harper is also named as trustee of Abrams' estate, and her beneficiary in the event of her death. On June 6, 2020, Dia Abrams is seen at her ranch in Mountain Center, California. Then she is captured on doorbell-cam footage delivering cinnamon rolls to a neighbor undergoing cancer treatment.

According to Keith Harper, he and Dia have lunch around 2:30 p.m. before he leaves to work around the property.  Abrams reportedly goes to tend to her horses at another property she owns in Garner Valley.

Harper says he mows for five hours before returning to the house around 7:30 p.m.   Abrams’ Ford F-350 pickup is parked outside, but Harper cannot find her.  Harper says he calls her phone and hears it ringing upstairs. It is plugged into a charger next to a nightstand. Abrams’ purse and keys are also there.

A search begins.  Dozens of locals scoured the ranch and surrounding mountain area on foot, horseback, and all-terrain vehicles. Harper is seen riding an ATV around the property. When Riverside County sheriff deputies begin a days-long search, Harper packs up his RV and takes off for Arizona. He says he needs to take care of a tax issue at a property he owns there. 

Where is Dia? 

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Brenda Geiger, J.D. -  Managing Attorney of Geiger Law Office, P.C. (a Trusts & Estates Law Firm; Author: “Secrets of Great Estate Planning, Fourth Edition” and “Estate Planning Secrets of the Affluent, Third Edition;" FB: Geiger Law Office, P.C./ IG: geigerlawoffice  
Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst (Beverly Hills); Twitter: @DrBethanyLive/ Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall; Appearing in the new show, “Paris in Love” on Peacock
Dan Goldsmith -  Private Investigator & Owner of Goldsmith Investigations; Former Law enforcement Officer and Senior State Investigator
Mike Hadsell – President and Founder of Peace River K9 Search and Rescue; Twitter: @K9River
David Jerome - Correspondent for the Idyllwild Town Crier Newspaper  
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Pregnant woman shoots and injures the father's second pregnant girlfriend. cops get involved in a roommate dispute over a missing pie. 

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Sam Haskell is sitting in jail with no bail, accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and her parents.

Police found biological evidence at the Haskell home where the wife and in-laws lived.  A law enforcement source says the biological evidence is from three different people. Police have yet to say what the nature of the biological evidence is but they have said they found blood at the house. 

Former friends of Haskell are speaking out. His former trainer has shared texts from Haskell in which he says can't handle seeing chopped-up bodies in horror movies. He says the violence is too "hard" for him to enjoy.   

Other friends have described Sam Haskell Jr as being "paranoid" before his arrest and the New York Post reports Haskell once pulled a machete on a childhood friend. Friends of Haskell's wife, Mei describe Haskell as being "weird" and having the "same creepy vibe" as Jeffrey Dahmer.

Haskell's former personal trainer, Troy Piedade, tells Nancy Grace that Haskell was troubled, but he never thought he would commit murder.

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Troy Piedade- Samuel Haskell’s Former Personal Trainer; IG: @daderulz  
Troy Slaten – Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney, Slaten Lawyers, APC; Twitter @TroySlaten
Dr. Jorey L. Krawczyn – Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. – Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide”
Mike McCormick – Owner and Lead Investigator of M.C.M. Investigations (Los Angeles); Former LAPD Detective for over 25 years (worked Gangs for 5 years); Facebook: MCM Investigations 
Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth) and Lecturer: University of Texas Austin and Texas Christian University Medical School
Miguel Melendez -  Senior Writer, Entertainment Tonight Digital; Twitter & IG: @MelendezReports 
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Mom attacks young boy for unbuckling his seatbelt. Drunk driver crashes into cop. 

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Daniel Markel and Wendi Adelson date for a couple of years, and then the young, well-educated couple marry.

Daniel Markel is already a a professor at Florida State University School of Law and Wendi Adelson is a third-year law student at the University of Miami. The couple have two children, but then Dan Markel comes home from a business trip to find the house nearly empty. His wife and two boys, as well as most of the furniture, are gone. There are divorce papers on the bed.

For the next six weeks, Dan Markel doesn't know where his children are much less his soon-to-be ex-wife.  Their divorce is finalized and the order is for them to share joint custody of their children, but Wendi Adelson tries to move with the boys to Miami, Dan Markel heads to court and files an order to keep them from moving.

Dan wins that battle, but a custody battle continues.  

Markel, now a Florida State University criminal law professor, pulls into his driveway and is talking on his cell phone when he was fatally shot. The killer was waiting for Markel outside his home then followed him into the garage, shooting him in the side of the head, through the window of his car. 

Who planned the murder for hire?

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Tamara Demko, DrPH, JD, RN - Harvard Law School Classmate and Friend of Dan Markel; Facebook: Justice For Dan
Dave Aronberg - Palm Beach County State Attorney and Friend of Dan; X: @aronberg, Facebook/TikTok/Instagram:@davearonberg, YouTube:  @davearonbergFL 
Caryn Stark – NYC Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma Expert and Consultant; Twitter: @carynpsych, Instagram: carynpsych, and FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
Robert Crispin – Private Investigator, Former Federal Task Force Officer for United States Department of Justice, DEA and Miami Field Division; Former Homicide and Crimes Against Children Investigator, “Crispin Special Investigations;” Facebook: Crispin Special Investigations, Inc.
Dr. Jan Gorniak – Medical Examiner, Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner (Las Vegas, NV), Board Certified Forensic Pathologist
Joel Waldman- (Miami, FL) Host of ‘Surviving the Survivor’ Podcast; Twitter: @PodcastSTS, Instagram: @SurvivingTheSurvivor
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Disgruntled Walmart employee threatens to shoot co-worker. Cops called over Oreo battery. 

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