WEBVTT - Episode 1: “You Cannot Save Me From All Things” 0:00:15.422 --> 0:00:30.862 Pushkin. I found out about the missing women through a 0:00:30.902 --> 0:00:35.942 Facebook post. I hike a lot, mostly around Los Angeles, 0:00:36.462 --> 0:00:41.342 and always alone. I don't like to talk where my 0:00:41.422 --> 0:00:47.462 heavy boots are rhythmically pounding the switchback trails. I use 0:00:47.542 --> 0:00:51.022 Facebook groups called things like Girls who Hike and Ladies 0:00:51.062 --> 0:00:56.062 who Hike LA for trail recommendations and safety tips. Sometime 0:00:56.262 --> 0:00:59.462 in the summer of twenty twenty, someone shared a news 0:00:59.542 --> 0:01:02.702 article in one of these groups and warned us all 0:01:02.982 --> 0:01:08.382 against hiking alone. In Idlewild, a mountain town about one 0:01:08.502 --> 0:01:12.742 hundred miles from me, five women had gone missing in 0:01:12.782 --> 0:01:14.262 the past two months. 0:01:14.942 --> 0:01:18.222 Idlewild is a really small community and a lot of 0:01:18.262 --> 0:01:22.702 people know each other there, so when people ended up 0:01:22.742 --> 0:01:27.342 going missing, it was this kind of it was odd. 0:01:27.542 --> 0:01:30.102 This is Diana Fettter. She knows a thing or two 0:01:30.102 --> 0:01:33.342 about crime. She worked as a secret service agent for 0:01:33.382 --> 0:01:38.342 twenty three years investigating financial fraud. Diana was living in 0:01:38.382 --> 0:01:40.982 the Idleworld area when the disappearances began. 0:01:42.062 --> 0:01:46.902 So when that started happening, you know, all of us 0:01:46.902 --> 0:01:48.702 girls were kind of saying, Okay, well, we're not going 0:01:48.782 --> 0:01:51.462 to go anywhere without somebody else if it's dark outside, 0:01:51.582 --> 0:01:53.382 just you know, bring somebody with you. 0:01:55.102 --> 0:02:00.982 Idlewild is nothing like La. The town is tucked away 0:02:01.102 --> 0:02:05.062 in the San Jacinto Mountains. Its official mayor is a 0:02:05.102 --> 0:02:11.742 golden retriever named Maximus Mighty Dog Mulla third. Really that's 0:02:11.782 --> 0:02:15.342 the kind of town. It is a tourist playground, a 0:02:15.382 --> 0:02:19.342 mile high paradise offering an a dilic escape from the city. 0:02:20.142 --> 0:02:23.302 Its main street is lined by ice cream shops, kitch 0:02:23.382 --> 0:02:28.142 gift stores, and cute carved wood and bears. So all 0:02:28.182 --> 0:02:32.262 these women disappearing was pretty big news. And because I'm 0:02:32.302 --> 0:02:35.342 a journalist, and because I just really wanted to know 0:02:35.382 --> 0:02:40.142 what happened, I figured I'd just start making some calls. 0:02:41.182 --> 0:02:44.862 It took me months, but eventually I managed to track 0:02:44.902 --> 0:02:49.582 down a friend, a granddaughter, a mother of every single 0:02:49.622 --> 0:02:52.662 missing woman, and I've found out what happened to them. 0:02:54.142 --> 0:02:58.102 One woman was elderly with dementia. She got a loss 0:02:58.222 --> 0:03:01.982 and her car was found abandoned on a steep mountain side. 0:03:02.062 --> 0:03:06.382 Her remains were later discovered nearby. Three women were battling 0:03:06.422 --> 0:03:10.582 meth addictions. They'd run away from trouble, just packed up 0:03:10.622 --> 0:03:14.382 and left. There was an explanation for all of them 0:03:15.262 --> 0:03:21.462 except for one, a woman named Lydia Kenchilo Abrams, who 0:03:21.542 --> 0:03:25.782 was known as Dia. 0:03:25.902 --> 0:03:29.022 When Dia went missing, it was a whole nother ballgame. 0:03:29.062 --> 0:03:30.382 I'm like, this is one of our own. 0:03:31.662 --> 0:03:34.822 Dia was a woman whose story refused to be tied 0:03:34.902 --> 0:03:38.102 up in this neat little ending. She was a glamorous, 0:03:38.182 --> 0:03:41.782 sixty five year old widow of a millionaire with two 0:03:41.862 --> 0:03:46.702 kids in San Diego, horses and a ton of property. 0:03:47.502 --> 0:03:51.782 Oh. I admired the heck out of her. Let me 0:03:51.862 --> 0:03:56.702 tell you. She's a woman who was confident about herself, 0:03:57.582 --> 0:04:00.982 always giving compliments to others, always telling other people they 0:04:01.022 --> 0:04:04.742 were beautiful and how wonderful they were. But at the 0:04:04.822 --> 0:04:09.542 same time, this petite woman could open up a can 0:04:09.622 --> 0:04:12.222 of wood bass like no one I've ever seen. She 0:04:12.382 --> 0:04:16.942 had no problem calling people out if she felt they 0:04:16.942 --> 0:04:21.102 were lying to her, or they were doing something wrong 0:04:21.542 --> 0:04:25.702 or not being good people, if that makes sense. 0:04:31.942 --> 0:04:36.222 They seemed an unlikely pair. Diana is a motorbike riding, 0:04:36.382 --> 0:04:40.662 leather wearing Southerner who also calls herself Lady Fed and 0:04:40.782 --> 0:04:45.382 Dia the blonde, blue eyed Californian. But when they met, 0:04:45.742 --> 0:04:47.662 Diana says, they clicked immediately. 0:04:48.662 --> 0:04:52.422 She was a private person and she wasn't one to 0:04:52.702 --> 0:04:55.822 make friends with a lot of people easily, so if 0:04:55.822 --> 0:04:59.222 she allowed you in her little circle, then she felt 0:04:59.262 --> 0:05:00.142 that you were worthy. 0:05:00.942 --> 0:05:05.342 You know, when Dia went missing, idle world wasn't the same, 0:05:05.982 --> 0:05:09.262 not for Diana or another woman in town, Julie Stamford, 0:05:10.062 --> 0:05:13.302 along with Dea, they've made this little trio, this sort 0:05:13.302 --> 0:05:15.782 of girl gang, like the kind you'd see at high school. 0:05:17.462 --> 0:05:19.822 Julie and I have spent hours and hours and hours 0:05:19.942 --> 0:05:22.582 going over every scenario that it could possibly be, and 0:05:22.622 --> 0:05:24.102 we came down to the same thing. 0:05:24.422 --> 0:05:26.382 She did not leave ever on a court. 0:05:31.382 --> 0:05:34.942 I've spent the past four years investigating what happened to Dea, 0:05:35.662 --> 0:05:38.822 and if there's one thing I've learned, it's this, we 0:05:38.942 --> 0:05:44.822 don't like unanswered questions. When someone goes missing, they leave 0:05:44.862 --> 0:05:48.702 a vacuum, and everyone left behind scrambles to fill that 0:05:48.822 --> 0:05:53.262 space with reasons why, or explanations of how to make 0:05:53.342 --> 0:05:57.422 sense of things, anything to achieve that neat little ending 0:05:57.502 --> 0:06:02.022 that I too was looking for when Dia went missing. 0:06:02.422 --> 0:06:05.702 She didn't get to tell her own story. Her narrative 0:06:05.742 --> 0:06:10.542 has been crafted by friends, family, lovers, and yes, even enemies, 0:06:14.582 --> 0:06:17.622 and it's left to us to decide whose version of 0:06:17.622 --> 0:06:21.782 events we believe. This isn't just a story about Dea. 0:06:22.742 --> 0:06:31.502 It's also a story about everyone she left behind. I'm 0:06:31.582 --> 0:06:37.862 Lucy Sheriff, and this is Where's Dea? Episode one? You 0:06:37.982 --> 0:07:00.102 Cannot save me from all things? That wasn't much about 0:07:00.142 --> 0:07:04.262 Dea Abrams out there, Like her friend Diana said, she 0:07:04.342 --> 0:07:07.422 seemed to be a private person. But I did come 0:07:07.462 --> 0:07:11.582 across a video by a local CBS reporter, David Godfredson. 0:07:12.462 --> 0:07:16.142 He'd interviewed a man named Keith Harper, who said he 0:07:16.222 --> 0:07:19.702 was DIA's fiance. It's a bit hard to make out 0:07:19.782 --> 0:07:23.142 David's questions in the video. It was twenty twenty, after all, 0:07:23.542 --> 0:07:27.782 so he was wearing a mask. But Keith diligently responds 0:07:28.262 --> 0:07:31.742 with short to the point answers, and you had plans 0:07:31.742 --> 0:07:32.382 to marry her? 0:07:32.662 --> 0:07:32.982 Yes? 0:07:33.422 --> 0:07:37.582 Twenty fourth of July, then, where Jackson hole lie on me. 0:07:38.742 --> 0:07:41.622 Keith and the reporter were sitting across from each other 0:07:41.862 --> 0:07:47.862 at Bonita Vista Ranch, DEA's sprawling home. Bright green trees 0:07:48.102 --> 0:07:52.462 and sunshine filled the frame around Keith. He had a craggy, 0:07:52.542 --> 0:07:55.982 rugged face, the face of someone who's been out in 0:07:56.022 --> 0:07:59.542 the sun his whole life. Why do you want to Marryer? 0:08:00.702 --> 0:08:03.662 She's an awesome person. She's the person that I have 0:08:04.502 --> 0:08:05.622 looked for all my life. 0:08:06.782 --> 0:08:10.782 I watched his body language. His right blue eyes flitted 0:08:10.822 --> 0:08:13.862 around as he described his efforts to look for Deer. 0:08:15.222 --> 0:08:19.382 The interview was posted on YouTube. There were a lot 0:08:19.622 --> 0:08:23.702 of comments, and many of them were not sympathetic. Here's 0:08:23.742 --> 0:08:27.062 a couple. He knows way more than he's letting up. 0:08:27.542 --> 0:08:31.142 I don't trust that old man, and even this guy 0:08:31.342 --> 0:08:36.302 has the perfect opportunity to get away with murder. The 0:08:36.382 --> 0:08:39.342 reporter asked Keith if he had anything to do with 0:08:39.462 --> 0:08:40.422 DEA's disappearance. 0:08:41.742 --> 0:08:42.462 Absolutely not. 0:08:44.862 --> 0:08:49.582 How can you prove that? I can prove that because 0:08:49.902 --> 0:08:55.182 I love the woman, I have no reason to bring 0:08:55.262 --> 0:08:55.902 harm to her. 0:08:56.182 --> 0:08:57.222 I love that woman. 0:08:58.702 --> 0:09:03.182 I had to speak with Keith Harper myself. I struggled 0:09:03.182 --> 0:09:06.942 to find his contact details online and eventually I went 0:09:07.022 --> 0:09:10.702 up to Idleworld and asked around. There were a bunch 0:09:10.742 --> 0:09:14.582 of missing persons posters on wooden notice boards around the town. 0:09:15.542 --> 0:09:18.062 One of them had DEA's face on it. There were 0:09:18.062 --> 0:09:21.462 two numbers listed, one for a Julia and the other 0:09:21.542 --> 0:09:28.822 one for A Harper. Oh, hi, is that mister Harper? Yeah, Hi, 0:09:29.182 --> 0:09:33.502 my name's Lucy Sheriff. So I called him and I wondered, 0:09:33.542 --> 0:09:35.982 if you would be willing to talk. 0:09:35.782 --> 0:09:39.942 To me quickly, What questions do you have? 0:09:41.382 --> 0:09:47.382 Obviously I had a lot. We talked for almost an hour. 0:09:48.102 --> 0:09:50.262 I found out he likes to be known as Harper, 0:09:50.622 --> 0:09:53.382 and so from now on, that's what I'll call him. 0:09:54.262 --> 0:09:57.102 He told me he was still searching for Dea, and 0:09:57.142 --> 0:09:59.182 he was worried that she was going to be forgotten 0:09:59.222 --> 0:10:02.822 by the police, that she'd just become another cold case. 0:10:03.502 --> 0:10:06.182 The hardest part, he said, was not knowing. 0:10:07.022 --> 0:10:10.222 You can deal with, yeah, if there is a death, 0:10:10.742 --> 0:10:13.702 or you can deal with she left on her own. 0:10:13.822 --> 0:10:15.262 Cord is her choice. 0:10:15.822 --> 0:10:16.102 You know. 0:10:16.262 --> 0:10:17.142 I can deal with that. 0:10:17.502 --> 0:10:21.422 I can deal with all of that, But not knowing. 0:10:23.022 --> 0:10:23.942 The hollow. 0:10:27.182 --> 0:10:28.022 You have a heart blind. 0:10:29.622 --> 0:10:32.622 Harper was an open book. He didn't seem to be 0:10:32.782 --> 0:10:35.782 anything like the guy who'd appeared on the CBS interview. 0:10:36.742 --> 0:10:40.822 I remember feeling this immense sympathy for him. He sounded 0:10:40.902 --> 0:10:45.222 so heartbroken. I can't imagine how difficult it must be 0:10:46.182 --> 0:10:46.662 to not know. 0:10:48.142 --> 0:10:51.302 And unless you've been here's something like that, you'll know her. Know, 0:10:51.862 --> 0:10:57.222 you'll never ever ever now because it leaves tip genyrk 0:10:57.262 --> 0:11:03.142 stomach and in your heart that never gets healed. 0:11:04.302 --> 0:11:06.742 Harper told me, do you knew how to use a gun? 0:11:07.622 --> 0:11:10.942 I keep going back. This was independent, she. 0:11:12.582 --> 0:11:13.342 Was capable. 0:11:14.142 --> 0:11:16.782 You know, I've watched her kill rattlers. I watched her 0:11:16.862 --> 0:11:19.942 kill five rattlers one day, and she has no clear 0:11:20.422 --> 0:11:22.582 now I mean the girl and next to one NA 0:11:23.102 --> 0:11:23.502 shoot it. 0:11:24.862 --> 0:11:28.302 A glamorous blonde who carried a gun shot at Rattlesnake's 0:11:28.422 --> 0:11:32.702 and ran a sprawling ranch. I mean Dea kind of 0:11:32.742 --> 0:11:36.822 sounded like a badass. But over these years I've peeled 0:11:36.862 --> 0:11:43.022 back these layers, and she was a complicated character. Even now, 0:11:43.302 --> 0:11:45.902 it's like Dea refuses to be summed up in one 0:11:45.982 --> 0:11:50.142 neat sentence. She doesn't fit into any classic archetypes or 0:11:50.302 --> 0:11:55.822 tidy cliches. Every new person I've spoken to opened another 0:11:55.902 --> 0:12:00.822 door to another possibility about what might have happened. Every 0:12:00.942 --> 0:12:05.502 conversation raised another version of events that didn't quite add up, 0:12:06.062 --> 0:12:11.142 another puzzle piece that didn't seem to fit. Deer disappeared 0:12:11.342 --> 0:12:16.182 on Saturday, June sixth, twenty twenty. I've revisited that one 0:12:16.222 --> 0:12:20.782 weekend over and over because everyone has their own account 0:12:20.862 --> 0:12:23.142 of how things went down at beneath a Vista Ranch, 0:12:23.662 --> 0:12:28.942 DEA's one hundred and fifteen acre gated mountain Paradise. I'm 0:12:28.982 --> 0:12:31.142 going to come back to these couple of days a 0:12:31.182 --> 0:12:39.582 lot throughout the season, so pay close attention. The timeline 0:12:39.582 --> 0:12:41.982 of the day Deer went missing is spotty, to say 0:12:41.982 --> 0:12:44.382 the least, but there's one thing we know for sure. 0:12:45.062 --> 0:12:49.182 Around nine am on Saturday, June sixth, Dea went over 0:12:49.182 --> 0:12:52.822 to a neighbor's house to deliver cinnamon rolls. The door 0:12:52.862 --> 0:12:55.342 cam footage was later leaked to CBS. 0:12:55.782 --> 0:12:58.302 Now, for the first time, we are seeing video of 0:12:58.382 --> 0:13:02.022 the former La Joya resident, recorded just hours before she vanished. 0:13:03.182 --> 0:13:07.822 I watched the grainy picture in its eerie silence. Deer 0:13:07.862 --> 0:13:12.262 wearing an oversized, chunky black shirt, her long blonde hair loose, 0:13:12.582 --> 0:13:15.382 ringing on the doorbell, a box of rolls in hand. 0:13:17.182 --> 0:13:20.662 When Dea realizes her neighbor isn't going to answer, she 0:13:20.742 --> 0:13:22.862 puts the box on some kind of ledge next to 0:13:22.902 --> 0:13:26.782 the door. The whole scene is ringed with a black 0:13:26.862 --> 0:13:29.982 circular border, like I'm looking through a fish eye lens 0:13:30.542 --> 0:13:35.822 watching DEA's final known movements. Dea walks away, and that's it. 0:13:43.142 --> 0:13:45.022 The one other thing I know for sure from that 0:13:45.142 --> 0:13:48.822 day is at around two thirty pm, Deer texted Diana, 0:13:49.182 --> 0:13:53.462 her motorcycle riding friend, about window cleaner recommendations because she 0:13:53.502 --> 0:13:55.302 was renting out some of her properties. 0:13:55.982 --> 0:13:57.182 She was happy as heck. 0:13:57.862 --> 0:14:03.022 We had her house lined up for Airbnb and we 0:14:03.022 --> 0:14:04.182 were getting hits on it. 0:14:05.462 --> 0:14:07.982 You might be wondering why would the widow of a 0:14:08.022 --> 0:14:11.702 millionaire be doing the airbnb hustle, And that's a great 0:14:11.782 --> 0:14:15.102 question with a pretty complex answer that I'll fully get 0:14:15.102 --> 0:14:19.262 into later. All you need to know for now is 0:14:19.262 --> 0:14:21.622 that Dea felt she was not in a good place 0:14:21.662 --> 0:14:25.782 financially or by some accounts, emotionally. She was in a 0:14:25.862 --> 0:14:28.822 dispute with her children over the estate of her husband, 0:14:29.462 --> 0:14:34.462 who had died a few years prior. So on June sixth, 0:14:34.782 --> 0:14:38.822 Dea texted Diana, and I've seen those messages, and then 0:14:39.462 --> 0:14:43.142 it all goes dark. That's the last evidence I have 0:14:43.422 --> 0:14:46.822 of what Dea did that day, because everything that happened 0:14:46.862 --> 0:14:50.982 on Saturday after that string of texts is according to Harper. 0:14:51.582 --> 0:14:53.782 Hey, you know, it seemed to be a typical day, 0:14:53.822 --> 0:14:56.622 but I was pushing hard to get ready to go 0:14:56.662 --> 0:15:02.982 to Colorado. And so you know, we we were making 0:15:03.022 --> 0:15:05.582 sure that everything was being prepared. And I remember I 0:15:05.742 --> 0:15:09.902 was down in the meadal morning the metal, and it lunchtime, 0:15:09.942 --> 0:15:14.302 which was two o'clock for us because we didn't need breakfast. 0:15:14.342 --> 0:15:20.422 Health probably around Ken picking in it too. We had lunch, 0:15:20.582 --> 0:15:23.902 and she did it. Have you got a minute, I 0:15:23.902 --> 0:15:28.782 can talk to you. And I wish that I had listened, 0:15:29.782 --> 0:15:33.742 because you know, she had talked about how she felt 0:15:33.902 --> 0:15:35.422 there was a risk with her children. 0:15:36.662 --> 0:15:40.822 According to Harper and Diana, Deer was scared of her children. 0:15:41.902 --> 0:15:43.782 It was all to do with this battle over her 0:15:43.862 --> 0:15:48.222 late husband's estate. The kids wanted it all, and they 0:15:48.302 --> 0:15:51.422 might go to extreme lengths to keep not only all 0:15:51.462 --> 0:15:55.942 of their father's money, but Deer's multimillion dollar ranch. Two 0:15:56.782 --> 0:15:58.022 Also her friends told me. 0:15:58.982 --> 0:16:02.942 And if anything, I can't pass that off, thinking that 0:16:02.982 --> 0:16:08.902 her children would not do anything to her. And she said, 0:16:09.022 --> 0:16:11.782 you have a minute, I can talk with you. And 0:16:11.902 --> 0:16:16.262 I said, hone can the cock to see me? I said, 0:16:16.302 --> 0:16:18.462 I've got the medal to do, and it's going to 0:16:18.542 --> 0:16:24.062 take me till dark. I find you're done. I leave 0:16:24.302 --> 0:16:27.142 go back to the metal at four thirty. I did 0:16:27.182 --> 0:16:29.702 not get this text because I was on the tractor 0:16:29.742 --> 0:16:31.862 and I did not hear it, but she texted me 0:16:31.902 --> 0:16:35.062 at four point thirty and what she said is, Harper, 0:16:35.182 --> 0:16:38.022 you cannot save me from all thinges even if you 0:16:38.662 --> 0:16:40.382 believe you can you can. 0:16:41.742 --> 0:16:45.102 You cannot save me from all things. Even if you 0:16:45.142 --> 0:16:49.862 believe you can, you can't. I've never seen this text. 0:16:50.582 --> 0:16:53.302 I've asked, but Harper told me the police took his 0:16:53.382 --> 0:16:57.382 phone and won't give it back. According to his version 0:16:57.422 --> 0:17:00.262 of events, he came in from mowing the meadow at 0:17:00.302 --> 0:17:03.462 seven fifteen pm and dere was nowhere to be seen. 0:17:04.342 --> 0:17:06.782 He thought she was out exercising her horses. 0:17:07.662 --> 0:17:09.222 You know, I got well. 0:17:09.302 --> 0:17:10.622 Call her, seeing what it tells you it. 0:17:10.782 --> 0:17:14.942 I called and that I could hear her phone ringing upstairs. 0:17:15.382 --> 0:17:18.262 So I go upstairs, thinking she was up there because 0:17:18.302 --> 0:17:21.782 sometimes she gets migraines and she'll lay down. But she 0:17:22.062 --> 0:17:25.182 was not anywhere in the house, but her phone was 0:17:25.222 --> 0:17:30.702 plugged in, her purse was sitting on the kitchen counter. 0:17:31.502 --> 0:17:33.902 He says. He then went to see if DEA's truck 0:17:34.022 --> 0:17:35.222 was outside. 0:17:35.942 --> 0:17:39.902 And when the truck was still parked where it was, 0:17:41.142 --> 0:17:44.382 then I started the new a search of the properties. 0:17:45.422 --> 0:17:49.182 Harper told me he searched other cabins and various sheds 0:17:49.222 --> 0:17:52.742 and storage units on the property, and that in the 0:17:52.782 --> 0:17:56.022 early hours of the morning, he stopped searching and went 0:17:56.022 --> 0:18:00.262 to bed. The next day, Deer was still nowhere to 0:18:00.302 --> 0:18:05.742 be found, making Harper the last person to see her alive. 0:18:10.342 --> 0:18:14.342 You know, obviously, when you're the last person, I've always 0:18:14.422 --> 0:18:15.262 become the suster. 0:18:17.022 --> 0:18:41.822 We'll be right back. Early on Sunday morning, when Harper 0:18:41.862 --> 0:18:46.062 woke up, Deer was still missing. Her phone, purse, and 0:18:46.142 --> 0:18:49.902 truck were all at the ranch. Harper says he continued 0:18:49.902 --> 0:18:51.702 his search immediately. 0:18:51.782 --> 0:18:54.422 And that's when I went. I talked to the highway 0:18:54.502 --> 0:18:58.382 control and he said, harpe Gee, call the sheriff. And 0:18:58.422 --> 0:19:00.022 he said, I'll tell you what. They don't have to 0:19:00.142 --> 0:19:03.742 do anything for her. I'll be seventy hours before they act. 0:19:03.902 --> 0:19:08.982 Because people show up, they just disappear, and many of 0:19:08.982 --> 0:19:11.702 them come back within that timeframe, so they don't get 0:19:11.782 --> 0:19:12.582 really excited. 0:19:13.622 --> 0:19:16.222 Before we get into what happened next, I want to 0:19:16.302 --> 0:19:18.742 take a minute to address the idea that you have 0:19:18.822 --> 0:19:21.542 to wait a certain amount of time to report someone missing. 0:19:22.302 --> 0:19:24.582 You've probably heard of it on a TV show or 0:19:24.582 --> 0:19:28.262 in a movie, but it's complete rubbish. You can report 0:19:28.302 --> 0:19:33.982 someone missing right away. After Harper spoke to the California 0:19:34.102 --> 0:19:39.942 Highway Patrol officer, news began to spread. Diana Fetta, DEA's friend, 0:19:40.542 --> 0:19:42.862 got wind that Harper was trying to get in touch 0:19:42.902 --> 0:19:43.222 with her. 0:19:43.902 --> 0:19:45.502 So I was able to call him and I said, 0:19:45.502 --> 0:19:48.182 what's going on, because well, she didn't come home last night. 0:19:48.262 --> 0:19:50.942 Is she with you? I said, no, she's not with me. 0:19:51.622 --> 0:19:53.502 But that's typical of Dea. 0:19:53.622 --> 0:19:55.382 If she didn't want to go home, she'd either spend 0:19:55.382 --> 0:19:57.102 the night with a friend or she'd spent the night 0:19:57.422 --> 0:19:58.662 at her corner valley house. 0:19:59.822 --> 0:20:03.342 At eight twenty four am on Sunday, a call was 0:20:03.342 --> 0:20:06.542 made from the ranch to the cops to report a 0:20:06.542 --> 0:20:10.862 missing person. I'm not sure him made that call, but 0:20:10.902 --> 0:20:15.502 the cops don't show until later the following day. Meanwhile, 0:20:15.782 --> 0:20:20.022 Diana rallied a search party, army veterans who belonged to 0:20:20.102 --> 0:20:24.502 her motorcycle club, DEA's Idlewild friends, and neighbors from a 0:20:24.582 --> 0:20:26.302 Christian youth camp across the road. 0:20:27.302 --> 0:20:30.822 So it was pretty quick when people all started showing up. 0:20:30.862 --> 0:20:33.302 We all started making phone calls trying to get people 0:20:33.342 --> 0:20:34.182 to come over and help. 0:20:35.142 --> 0:20:37.542 Some of the people who were searching, assumed Deer had 0:20:37.542 --> 0:20:39.462 gone off hiking and just hurt herself. 0:20:40.262 --> 0:20:42.982 She's either up the hill, you know, walking up the 0:20:43.062 --> 0:20:47.702 hill and she got lot, or she could hurt herself 0:20:47.782 --> 0:20:48.982 and she can't come down. 0:20:50.262 --> 0:20:53.062 But there was a growing list of clues that made 0:20:53.062 --> 0:20:56.822 this seem unlikely. Her phone and her guns were at 0:20:56.822 --> 0:21:01.182 the house, things she always took hiking, and there was 0:21:01.222 --> 0:21:04.942 something else that was very off. Deer's dog, Ruby was 0:21:04.982 --> 0:21:08.862 still there. Ruby was a mixed mutt white with black spots, 0:21:09.262 --> 0:21:13.422 colgy sized. She was ill too, on a very specific 0:21:13.462 --> 0:21:15.502 diet and lots of medication. 0:21:16.062 --> 0:21:18.422 And that was the number one thing. She would never 0:21:18.462 --> 0:21:21.822 have left Ruby at all. She always took Ruby everywhere. 0:21:21.822 --> 0:21:24.942 I don't care where she went, even to her attorney's office, 0:21:24.982 --> 0:21:26.902 she brought Ruby. If she went to the store, she 0:21:26.982 --> 0:21:29.342 brought Ruby. If she was going to low she brought Ruby. 0:21:32.342 --> 0:21:35.662 The search was well underway when DEA's thirty year old son, 0:21:35.902 --> 0:21:39.382 Clinton Abrams, showed up at the ranch with some friends. 0:21:40.022 --> 0:21:43.902 And I had never met him before, and. 0:21:45.182 --> 0:21:47.062 All I could think about is, I'm looking at this 0:21:47.342 --> 0:21:51.542 young guy that you know, looks like a college frat boy. 0:21:54.182 --> 0:22:03.222 He's not crying, He's not like overly emotional. Everybody went 0:22:03.342 --> 0:22:07.422 searching for Dia, he didn't do anything. He just stood there. 0:22:08.582 --> 0:22:11.982 So it was it was like, well, if my mom 0:22:12.622 --> 0:22:15.982 or my dad or my child or whoever was missing, 0:22:16.022 --> 0:22:17.862 I'd be out there. I'm not going to just stand 0:22:17.862 --> 0:22:19.822 here and wait for somebody to bring me news. But 0:22:19.862 --> 0:22:24.902 he just stood there like he wanted people to pity him. 0:22:25.502 --> 0:22:29.422 You know, he didn't act like an individual who was 0:22:29.462 --> 0:22:31.102 worried about their mother's welfare. 0:22:31.902 --> 0:22:32.342 Period. 0:22:33.942 --> 0:22:37.342 I've spoken with Clinton, by the way, he described his 0:22:37.382 --> 0:22:40.862 actions that day very differently. You'll hear from him later on. 0:22:41.782 --> 0:22:44.742 But in the meantime, the search party had no luck 0:22:44.822 --> 0:22:50.062 finding any trace of Dea. Soon people began to disperse. 0:22:51.462 --> 0:22:54.782 Later that night, Diana says she got another call. 0:22:57.302 --> 0:23:00.262 I had gone home and Harper was calling and he 0:23:00.342 --> 0:23:03.622 was upset, and I said, are you going to be okay? 0:23:03.622 --> 0:23:05.182 And he's like no. I said, do you need me 0:23:05.222 --> 0:23:07.182 to come out there? And he goes, do you mind? 0:23:07.302 --> 0:23:09.382 I said, no, that's fine. So I came out and 0:23:09.462 --> 0:23:13.862 I sat at the house and he was kind of 0:23:13.902 --> 0:23:17.622 like a zombie, you know, like acted the part of 0:23:17.702 --> 0:23:18.582 like something's long. 0:23:20.022 --> 0:23:27.142 That night, Diana stayed over at the ranch. It's now Monday, 0:23:27.462 --> 0:23:31.462 June eighth, two days since Deer was last seen, and 0:23:31.502 --> 0:23:35.142 there was no sign of the cops. Any officer will 0:23:35.182 --> 0:23:38.262 tell you that the first forty eight hours is crucial 0:23:38.382 --> 0:23:42.022 in a missing person's case. It's when investigators have the 0:23:42.022 --> 0:23:45.542 best chance of following up on leeds because the information 0:23:45.622 --> 0:23:48.902 is fresh in everyone's minds. It's the best chance you 0:23:49.022 --> 0:23:53.582 have of finding somebody. And yet the cops wait until 0:23:53.582 --> 0:23:58.822 Monday afternoon to arrive on the scene. And before they 0:23:58.902 --> 0:24:02.102 even get to the ranch, Harper says, they called him 0:24:02.222 --> 0:24:03.182 to say they were coming. 0:24:04.622 --> 0:24:08.142 They call me and they tell me that they are 0:24:08.542 --> 0:24:11.702 gonna be there at age thirty in the morning. When 0:24:11.702 --> 0:24:14.662 they get there, they said, we will were shutting the 0:24:14.782 --> 0:24:17.862 lanes down and we will take over the church. If 0:24:17.862 --> 0:24:19.982 you got anything, you may want to get it mo 0:24:20.262 --> 0:24:22.742 because anything that's on the property will stay there. 0:24:23.942 --> 0:24:26.462 I talked to three people who were there that day 0:24:26.862 --> 0:24:30.142 who all said the cops didn't show up until the afternoon, 0:24:30.902 --> 0:24:34.502 and when they finally did show, Diana says, they made 0:24:34.502 --> 0:24:36.302 some frustrating decisions. 0:24:37.622 --> 0:24:43.182 Well, they immediately came onto the property and kicked everybody off. 0:24:44.022 --> 0:24:47.462 You know, didn't look. 0:24:47.302 --> 0:24:50.102 Around at anybody or say, okay, well who's the person 0:24:50.142 --> 0:24:53.822 that contacted the Sheriff's department, or Hey, who's Diana, or hey, 0:24:53.862 --> 0:24:55.102 who's this person? 0:24:55.702 --> 0:24:56.982 They didn't even take my name. 0:24:58.382 --> 0:25:02.502 Diana was especially upset because people started leaving without being 0:25:02.622 --> 0:25:03.742 questioned by the police. 0:25:04.462 --> 0:25:06.142 What you know. 0:25:07.142 --> 0:25:09.062 Yes, I was never a police officer, but I was. 0:25:09.142 --> 0:25:15.262 I'm a federal agent for twenty three beers, and I 0:25:15.462 --> 0:25:19.302 felt that the investigation could have been handled. 0:25:19.302 --> 0:25:23.022 Better by the way. 0:25:23.702 --> 0:25:26.302 I've spoken with other people who were on the ranch 0:25:26.382 --> 0:25:28.822 the day of the search and who said it took 0:25:28.902 --> 0:25:33.222 the Riverside sheriff Department three years to get in touch 0:25:33.302 --> 0:25:37.382 and ask them what they saw. Anyways, when the cops 0:25:37.382 --> 0:25:40.542 called off their search that night at ten thirty five pm, 0:25:40.982 --> 0:25:43.862 they handed over the keys to the entire ranch to 0:25:43.982 --> 0:25:48.862 Clinton and Chrissara, DIA's children. The cops left behind an 0:25:48.942 --> 0:25:53.102 affidavit and a search warrant for the ranch. I found 0:25:53.102 --> 0:25:58.262 something surprising in those documents. A second address was listed 0:25:58.982 --> 0:26:03.022 Diana Fedder's house. I haven't been able to confirm with 0:26:03.062 --> 0:26:07.502 the cops whether they searched her property, she says they didn't. 0:26:07.982 --> 0:26:10.862 It did make me wonder why would they want to 0:26:10.902 --> 0:26:16.782 search her house. I also read through the list of 0:26:16.862 --> 0:26:21.622 all the items the potential evidence that the cops had confiscated. 0:26:22.582 --> 0:26:26.222 There was a netgear router, which, among other things, would 0:26:26.262 --> 0:26:28.862 have info about which cell phones were connected to the 0:26:28.902 --> 0:26:34.382 Wi Fi and any activity from security cameras. There was 0:26:34.422 --> 0:26:37.262 a piece of toilet paper, a band aid, and tan 0:26:37.382 --> 0:26:42.222 bed sheets which the cops noted might have bloodstains on them. 0:26:42.382 --> 0:26:48.382 There were spent bullet shell casings, and lastly, two handwritten notes. 0:26:51.862 --> 0:26:55.462 I was desperate to know more about this evidence. Spent 0:26:55.502 --> 0:27:00.102