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And the bombshell:Quoting from the MSN article so we have some of the info to discuss here. It's going to take me awhile to process all this, and grapple with the fact that this has been deemed a suspicious possible homicide. Dia disappears so mysteriously, and now this woman dies.
Another woman lost at Bonita Vista Ranch near Idyllwild (msn.com)
She had been working on the sprawling property since early August, as a ranch hand taking care of the horses.
“My sister was what you would describe as an outdoors woman. She was a horse trainer,” said Newkirk’s sister, Kelly Berkowitz. "She was extremely strong. Although she was probably 100 pounds soaking wet and barely over five feet, she could hold her own. When you were in her presence, she was intimidating even with her small stature because she was just a very strong, outdoorsy, capable woman."
Berkowitz said she last spoke to her sister the day before she died.
“She was in a great mood. She was up in the mountains, and she loved being in nature. And she spent all day outside. So, she really felt like she had gotten her dream job,” recalled Berkowitz.
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He [Harper] was her boss. He was the one who gave her direction and told her what needed to be done. And she kept lists of everything he told her to do. And she would check those off,” said Berkowitz.
Harper, 72, also was Newkirk's landlord, as she was living in a house ten miles away in Garner Valley, a property also once owned by Dia Abrams at the time of her disappearance.
“She [Newkirk] was paying him rent. And she was struggling. I don't think she was making what she deserved.,” said Berkowitz.
Woman dies at Bonita Vista Ranch near Idyllwild | cbs8.com
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Harper declined to be interviewed for this report. Previously, he has denied any involvement in Dia Abrams' disappearance a year and a half ago.
In a series of text messages with News 8, Harper indicated he received information that one of Abrams’ workers “escorted her off the ranch into the hands of those who execute[d] her” and “they then waited [sic] her down and put her in the bottom of Lake Hemet.”
Via text message, Harper claimed a Riverside Sheriff dive team recently attempted to locate Abrams’ remains in Lake Hemet but failed.
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Just horrible. I can't help but wonder if poor Ms. Newkirk was informed of this theory of Harper's. I suspect she wasn't.
She sounds like someone Dia would have liked to be taking care of her horses. MOO