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Pushkin. In the summer of 2020, in the small mountain town of Idlewild, California, some disturbing news began to spread. Five women had disappeared in the span of just a few months. When that started happening, you know, all of us girls were kind of saying, OK, well, we're not going to go anywhere without somebody else. 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 Kenslow Abrams, known as Dia. A glamorous 65-year-old who, from the outside looking in, seemed to have it all.
She's a woman who was confident about herself, always giving compliments to others. But at the same time, this petite woman could open up a can of whoop-ass like no one I've ever seen. 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 searches. Her son, Clinton Abrams, and a man named Keith Harper, who lived 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, there were people who could benefit if Dia suddenly disappeared.
Her estate was worth millions of dollars. 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 have murdered her are moving in. You know, obviously, when you're the last person to see them, you always become the suspect. I soon discovered that everyone had a different version of events. He had every reason to harm her.
But so did Kersara and Clinton just because so much money's involved. I've been reporting this story for four years now. I've uncovered a tangled web of manipulation, power, estranged families and greed.
To me, the liable suspects are the kids or Harper. He asked us to investigate it using our methodologies, and he was already contacting various psychics around the country. You can't trust anything the man says at all. Like, you can pretty much just take out a Sharpie and just cross out everything.
every damn thing he says. If any one of the parties, the kids or me, had anything to do with her disappearance or death, we would get nothing. She turned to me and she said, if anything ever happens to me, Clinton did it. And I was like, what the actual fuck? I'm Lucy Sherriff.
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