Introducing Where’s Dia?

In the beautiful mountain town of Idyllwild, a wealthy widow named Dia Abrams suddenly vanishes from her home. She leaves behind her idyllic ranch, estranged children and a messy legal battle. Two men in her life, her son and a man who claims to be her fiance, launch public campaigns to find her. But soon, their efforts – and stories – begin to unravel. 

Where’s Dia? launches July 23rd from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcasts. Subscribe to Pushkin+ to binge the entire season early and ad free. To hear the show week by week, listen to Where's Dia on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. In the summer of twenty twenty, in the small
mountain town of Idleworld, California, some disturbing news began to spread.
Five women had disappeared in the span of just a
few months.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
When that started happening, you know, all of us girls
were kind of saying, Okay, well, we're not going to
go anywhere without somebody else.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I hike a lot in that area and always on
my own, So the news really hit home, and being
a journalist, I wanted to find out what was going on,
so I started making some calls. Eventually I found out
what happened to all the women, all except one Lydia

(01:04):
Kenchlow Abrams, known as Dea, a glamorous sixty five year
old who from the outside looking in, seemed to have
it all.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
She's a woman who was confident about herself, always giving
compliments to others. But at the same time, this petite
woman kid opened up a can of wood bass like
no one I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
In the days after Dia disappeared, her friends, her neighbors,
and her kids began to search for her. They ran
through endless theories. Was she lying hurt somewhere, had she
run away? Had she been kidnapped killed. There were two
men in her life who led the searchers, her son
Clinton Abrams, and a man named Keith Harper, who lived

(01:55):
with Dia on her sprawling ranch and said they were engaged.
It didn't take long for people to start pointing fingers,
because it turns out people who could benefit if Diaz
suddenly disappeared. Her estate was worth millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
People I didn't know were in our family home, and
I had gone up there ever since I was a
little kid. And now suddenly, you know, the people who
I suspect had murdered her are moving in.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
You know, obviously, when you're the last person, always.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Become the suspect. I soon discovered that everyone had a
different version of events.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
He had every reason to harm her, but so did
Chrissara and Clinton just because so much money's involved.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I've been reporting this story for four years now. I've
uncovered a tangled web of manipulation power estrange families.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
And greed to me the viable suspects are the kids
or Harper.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
He asked us to investigate it using our methodologies, and
he was already contact the various psychics around the country.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
You can't trust anything, the man says at all, Like
you can pretty much just take out a sharpie and
just cross out every year thing.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
He said, do you have any one of the parties,
the kids or me had anything to do with their disappearance?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Are dead? We would get nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
She turned to me and she said, if anything ever
happens to me, Clinton did it.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
And I was like, what the actual fuck.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I'm Lucy Sheriff. Where's Dear is coming July twenty third
from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Podcasts. Subscribe to Pushkin Plus
to hear the whole season early and add free. Find
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(04:07):
hear the show week by week, listen to Where's Dear
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your podcasts.