Hi, I'm Keith Morrison, with a preview from the new season of

Dateline Missing in America. This is the story of Dia Abrams.

A few hours east of the storied beaches of Southern California,

east along famous boulevards and endless crowded freeways and outpassed the ranks of desert

hugging suburbs, is a winding road up and up into the San Jacinto mountains. To a town called,

Idol Wild, a small, unhurried place rustic by intent planted among ancient rock formations

and lofty pines. And just outside that little town, perched like a postcard among the trees,

is Bonita Vista Ranch, the home of 65-year-old Lydia Abrams, or Dia as everyone called her.

Bonita Vista was Dia's Eden. Within its 116 acres was everything she loved, nature, peace,

and most of all, that her friend Julie Stanford, her animals.

So, A number one little animal is Ruby. That's her baby, that cute little doggy. She had miniature

dockies, she had a miniature pony named Fonzie, and that's what she was out there doing every day,

is being with her animals. They could sure they were okay.

Dia's son, Clinton Abrams, said there was absolutely nothing that could make her leave that

ranch of hers, not even the thread of wildfires. My mother wouldn't leave the property when there

was a large fire surrounding three sides of her land. She refused to leave. She refused to leave

because she felt that if she left the fire department, let the structures burn. She wouldn't

want that. She did not want that to happen, so that's how much she loved the ranch and the animals.

But something, or someone, did make Dia leave her ranch and her animals. It happened,

whatever it was, on Saturday, June 6, 2020. All morning, Dia was home in the ranch house, as usual,

and by sundown on that warm summer evening, she was gone. Behind her, she left a trace of evidence

in the form of a text message, at least, according to the man who said he received it. Keith Harper,

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