Katharina Buczek
“She’s, like, awesome. A very strong personality, you know, a little spitfire,” Diana explained.
So, according to Diana and Keith, June 6, 2020, started off like any normal Saturday. In the morning, Diana and Dia texted back and forth about window washers.
Keith, too, says he was with Diana that day. The couple reportedly had lunch at about 2:30 p.m. before Keith left to work on the property. He and Diana were planning to travel to Colorado the following day, so he wanted to get things squared away at home.
Once he finished up outside and returned back to their ranch at 7:30 p.m., though, Dia was nowhere to be found. So, Keith called her, but she never answered.
He claims that he later found Dia’s cell phone on the charger in their bedroom, along with her purse– which was still inside their home.
At that point, Keith thought Dia had just gone to the lower ranch– something she had mentioned she wanted to do earlier in the day.
After he walked outside and saw her truck still in the driveway, though, he became worried– since their property is large and that was the only form of transportation Dia could have taken to get to the lower ranch.
Keith still waited for Dia to arrive home that night, though. And after she did not, he filed a missing person report with the Riverside Sheriff’s Office the following day, June 7.
Clinton claims that he did not hear about his mother’s disappearance from Keith but rather from one of her neighbors. Still, after hearing the news, he immediately drove from San Diego to the ranch on Sunday and watched as a massive search effort was launched for his mother.
“Missing persons came out, homicide came out, there was a dive team,” Clinton recalled.
A three-day search then ensued, consisting of twenty-six people who were mostly friends of Dia’s, looking high and low for her. The group, along with Keith, also brought out Dia’s dogs since they would have recognized her scent.
