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| Harris, Diana l. June 7,1981; Florida 27 YO | |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Aug 9 2006, 12:45 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/harris_diana.html Diana Lynn Harris Above Images: Harris, circa 1981 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: June 7, 1981 from Big Pine Key, Florida Classification: Endangered Missing Date of Birth: October 6, 1953 Age: 27 years old Height and Weight: 5'4 - 5'8, 120 - 135 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian female. Red/brown or blonde hair, blue eyes. Harris wore eyeglasses and dentures at the time of her disappearance. She is fair-skinned and, at the time she vanished, was known to occasionally wear wigs. Some agencies give her name as "Diane." Details of Disappearance Harris was last seen at Big Pine Key in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida on June 7, 1981. She has never been heard from again. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance. Her children were visiting their father in Michigan at the time their mother disappeared. Harris is originally from Owosso, Michigan. Her family and the family of Thomas Stump, who disappeared from Florida in 1995, believe their disappearance may be connected; police have interviewed several of the same people with regards to both. Authorities have not conclusively established a link between the two cases, however. Both remain unsolved. Some agencies give the date of Harris's disappearance as August 1991. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Monroe County Sheriff's Office 305-296-2424 Source Information The Doe Network Real Crimes Outpost for Hope Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated June 8, 2006; alternate weight added, details of disappearance updated. Charley Project Home |
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| monkalup | Dec 20 2006, 12:29 AM Post #2 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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| monkalup | Dec 20 2006, 12:31 AM Post #3 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Woman Seeking Info On Fate Of Her Mother, Who Disappeared Here In 1981 FROM KEY WEST THE NEWSPAPER 11/18/05 27-year old may have been killed and dumped in ocean. MCSO officials won't comment on possible new development in case by Dennis Reeves Cooper Christine Hill was just 10 years old in 1981 when her 27-year-old mother, Diana Lynn Harris, disappeared here in the Florida Keys under suspicious circumstances. For the past decade, Hill has been on a mission to try to find out what happened to her mother. Diana, a pretty blue-eyed strawberry blonde, had grown up in Owosso, Michigan, graduated from Owosso High School, married a local boy and had two children. But in February 1980, after being laid off at her job, she took her two kids, Christine and 9-year-old Michael, and came down to the Keys, looking for a new life. She got a job at the No Name Pub on Big Pine Key and met a man, Gary Vincent Argenzio. They lived together in what some called a party house on Iris Drive on Big Pine Key. The house was owned by Key West Attorney Mitch Denker. At the beginning of the summer in 1981, Diana had sent the kids back to Owosso to spend some time with her ex-husband. Her mother would tell authorities that she and Diana had kept in touch by telephone on a regular basis until mid-July. So when Diana failed to show up at her sisters wedding in Illinois in mid-August, her mother reported her missing. Diana's disappearance was investigated to some degree in 1981 by Detective Richard Conrady of the Monroe County Sheriffs Office (MCSO) and, apparently, Argenzio had been a suspect. But a week or so after Diana disappeared, Argenzio also disappeared. It was later learned that he had stolen a 34-foot fishing boat and fled to Mexico. But he had been arrested by Mexican authorities in 1982, returned to Key West, tried on grand theft charges and sent to prison. But he was never charged in the disappearance of Diana Harris. In 1995, at Christine Hill's request, the MCSO reopened the investigation. At that time, it was determined that all the records from the original investigation had been destroyed as part of a records purge by former Sheriff Billy Freeman. Investigators also learned that Agenzio had died in Miami in 1992 from pneumonia. One of the interviews conducted in 1995 was with "Mitch Denker" who immediately told investigators that it was his opinion that Argenzio had murdered Harris, taken her body out on a boat and dumped it into the ocean. He also said that, on the weekend of Harris's disappearance, he and a friend, Mark Ripin, had gone to the Iris Drive residence and had seen a hole in one of the walls. There was blood around the hole. Denker said that Argenzio told him and Ripin that he had driven Diana's head through the wall during a fight. Diana was not at the residence and never returned, leaving all of her clothes and personal effects, including family photographs. Detectives then interviewed Ripin, who confirmed Denker's story. During the questioning, Ripin also referred to Diana as the girl Argenzio murdered. At that time, MCSO detectives told Hill that, although they were unable to determine conclusively what had happened to her mother, they would leave the file open in case there were any new developments. There may have been a new development. Just a few weeks ago, in late August, the FBI in Sarasota contacted the MCSO about an unidentifiedbody being investigated there. To try to determine if that Jane Doemight be Diana Harris, MCSO detectives requested a comparison of the DNA from the unidentified body with Diana Harris's DNA. Then, on September 6, detectives asked a witness familiar with the house on Iris Lane to ride with them to confirm the location. This week, MCSO spokewoman Becky Herrin confirmed that the investigation is still open, but refused further comment on the case. |
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| monkalup | Dec 20 2006, 12:32 AM Post #4 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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| Christine | Jul 6 2007, 06:40 PM Post #5 |
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I wanted to add some things to my Mom's case. I have always been told she disappeared from a house at Big Pine Key, Florida, however after receiving her 1995 case files - these files state that she in fact lived at a house on Tortuga Dr. in No Name Key, Florida. This house was also owned by Mitchell Denker. My Mom did have a full denture on either top or bottom and she had a full or partial on the opposite side. It is not known for sure if one was full or partial. I had thought that she had full on bottom and possibly a partial denture on top. My Mom's hair color is considered to be strawberry blonde. It was lighter in her earlier years, even in her late teens, it had darkened up some by the time she was 27. My Mom to my knowledge only wore wigs in her highschool years. She also had natural curly hair, sometimes wore glasses and almost always had nicely manicured and painted finger nails that I remember being burgandy and red at times. She had a shirt I remember seeing her wear more often then other ones. This was a strapless halter top, tuquoise in color. She also wore turquoise rings most of the time, they were her favorite. On her days off work she would sometimes wear cut off jean shorts and often when going to the beach. Her swimming suit was also turquoise. She loved the beach and was there every chance she got. She was very out going and friendly in nature. When my brother and I lived with her we lived in an apartment located across from the No Name Pub located on Big Pine Key, this was until June 7th, 1981. This means she moved after I left for Michigan to No Name Key. No Name Key was just down the road across a bridge, walking distance. No Name Key at the time in 1981 was not very populated with people and I myself do not even remember seeing cars cross over this bridge. The land is protected land and known for it's Key Deer that are also protected. Christine Hill (daugter of Diana) |
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| monkalup | Aug 3 2007, 12:28 PM Post #6 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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Thanks for the extra info, Christine! My heart goes out to you. I want you to know that your mom will not be forgotten...((hugs)) |
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Lauran "If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth." The late, great Roberto Clemente. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment for non-profit research and educational purposes only. | |
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| monkalup | May 3 2008, 07:14 PM Post #7 |
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The Old Heifer! An oxymoron, of course.
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http://www.nowpublic.com/25th_anniversary_...s_disappearance 25th Anniversary of Mom's Disappearance by averyriver | January 7, 2006 at 11:43 am My Mom Diana Lynn Harris disappeared from Monroe County, Florida in 1981. Her case was considered possible foul play in 81, and in 1995 her case was re-investigated as a possible homicide. Today, 25 years later her case again is being re-investigated as a possible homicide. I was 10 when I last saw my Mom in Florida. I went to Michigan for the Summer and never saw her again. Her original investigation was not done properly, however today, police from Monroe County Sheriff's office believe there is reason to look into her case again. I will be going to the Florida Keys this July to try and find out what happened in my Mom's last days, by talking to some of the long time locals in the area, as well as people that were questioned in her first investigation and in 1995 investigation. I will be asssisted by Detective Mark Coleman, from the Monroe County Sheriff's office. This will be like a reunion for me in some sort, as I believe somewhere in Florida my mothers spirit rests. This will be my first time back to the area since 1981 and I am very hopeful the turn out of information will show the results I am looking for, and give me some closure. Anyone with information regarding my Mom or her disappearance please email me at cphill27@yahoo.com Christine Hill |
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| monkalup | Jan 17 2009, 11:31 AM Post #8 |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.realcrimes.com/Harris/Index.htm Diana Lynn Harris My mother, Diana Lynn Harris, 27, disappeared from Big Pine Key, Florida, in October 1981. I was ten years old at the time. My brother and I were in Michigan, visiting our father. After our mother’s disappearance, our grandmother raised us. When I turned 17, I returned to Florida to begin my personal investigation of Mom’s disappearance. I’ve been at it ever since. Information I’ve recently uncovered leads me to suspect that my mother may have become a threat to an ongoing, major drug operation and that she might not have been the only person to lose her life for that reason. I recently ran names connected to Mom’s disappearance through a search engine. When I ran the name “Mark Ripin” – an ex-convict, who was questioned in regard to my mom’s case -- I landed on the Real Crimes web site. My heart dropped into my shoes when I discovered that Mark Ripin was also questioned as a possible suspect in the “Tom Stump Missing Persons Case,” and that several other individuals linked to my mother’s case are also linked to Tom Stump’s case. On the web site I learned that Tom Stump disappeared from Sugarloaf Key, Florida, in 1995. Like my mom, his body was never found. At the time of his disappearance, Tom was married to Mark Ripin’s ex-wife, Bernie Ripin/Stump. A few days prior to vanishing, Tom was telling people that he suspected Bernie of having an affair with radio talk show host Bill Becker. As soon as she was legally able to do so, Bernie married Becker. I recognized some of the names on the web site and on the message board as people my mom knew back in 1981. Mark Ripin, the ex-con; Mark’s then-wife Bernie; and their attorney friend, Mitchell Denker, were part of a tight knit group of friends who partied together -- and some of whom actually lived together -- during that time period. My mom was introduced to that group by a new boyfriend, Gary Vincente Argenzio, who, I’ve now found out, was another ex-convict and a close friend of Mark Ripin. Mark Ripen was then, and still is, a close friend of Bernie’s fourth and current husband, Bill Becker, who was Bernie’s live-in boyfriend in 1980 and again began living with her after Tom Stump vanished in 1995. In October 1981, Mom phoned a friend in Michigan from a hot tub at attorney Mitchell Denker’s “party house” on Big Pine Key and told her that a big drug drop-off was scheduled and she was afraid the phone might be tapped. She also mentioned guard dogs. That’s the last anybody ever heard from her. I’ve since been told by someone in law enforcement that certain police officers attended functions at that party house and that some lost their jobs because of the activities there. My grandmother filed missing person’s reports in both Michigan and Monroe County, Florida. Nobody at the party house reported Mom missing. One week after Mom vanished, Gary Argenzio stole a boat that belonged to a man named Robert Thompson. Mitchell Denker told me that Gary also stole two motorcycles from him and possibly a gun. Mark Ripin has since told me that he and Denker owned a boat together, and Denker once allowed Gary to take this boat out and Gary ran it with no oil and blew the motor. Is that why Gary took Robert Thompson’s boat instead of Denker’s? Another vehicle that was missing was a car that belonged to Mom’s friend Donna. Donna thought it was taken by a man named “Mark” who lived on No Name Key, which is where Mark Ripin and his wife Bernie lived at that time. However, she also added that she believed that man was Mitchell Denker’s cousin, who worked at Denker’s law office. It’s possible she may have confused Mark Ripin with Mitchell Denker’s cousin, Michael Gilbert, who died of a drug overdose in the ‘80s. Which one was it? After Argenzio ran off to Mexico, Denker allegedly found Donna’s car on a side road. He has stated that he believes Gary Argenzio took the car, perhaps to transport Mom’s body, and claims to have checked it for forensic evidence and found none. Denker is an attorney, not a forensic expert. Why didn’t he turn the car over to the authorities for a professional work-up? Detective Richard Conrady and Detective Lynn McNeil of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department were originally the lead detectives in Mom’s case. In June 1995, when Mom’s case was being re-investigated as a possible homicide, Detective Phil Harrold questioned Mitchell Denker. Denker told Detective Harrold that Mom was murdered and suggested that she speak with Argenzio’s friend Mark Ripin. Ripin told him he believed Argenzio killed Mom and dumped her body in the ocean. In July 1982, Gary Argenzio was arrested in Mexico, but he wasn’t charged with Mom’s murder. Instead, (under the name “Gary Vincento”), he was charged and found guilty of stealing Robert Thompson’s boat. Mitchell Denker’s cousin, Michael Gilbert, a member of Denker's law firm, defended Gary Argenzio pro bono. Argenzio was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. In May 1990, I contacted Mitchell Denker by phone, and he informed me that he’d sold the party house in 1984. He said he was going to Turkey on business for two weeks and to call him when he got back. When I called him again, he acted like he’d never before talked to me. In 1992, Gary Argenzio was convicted of another felony. Five days later, he died in his Broward County home in Dania, Florida, allegedly of pneumonia. But I wasn’t going to give up. Approximately January 1995, I again contacted Mitchell Denker. This time he told me that he thought Gary Argenzio might have buried my mother in Denker’s back yard. As a result of Denker’s new statement, I was able to convince the Sheriff’s Department to reactivate my mother’s case. When questioned in June 1995 by Detective Harrald, Denker said it would have been impossible to bury a body in his yard because of the guard dogs and the coral. Detective Harrald told me the yard had been cemented over so it could not be searched or dug up. Mitchell Denker asked Harrold if his original statement from 1981 still existed. When Det. Harrold assured him it did not, Denker and Mark Ripin informed him that Argenzio had admitted to smashing Mom’s head into the wall of Denker’s house. Both men stated that they saw the hole in the wall with blood spatters, but Denker described the hole as being in his bedroom and Ripin described it as being by the back door. Detective Lynn McNeil, who investigated the case in 1981, recalled no such damage. She also told me that she and Det. Conrady had checked the woods in the yard for any evidence and had found none. How could the back yard have had woods on it, when Denker said it was solid coral? In July 1995 – at approximately the same time my mother’s case was reactivated – Tom Stump disappeared from his home on Sugarloaf Key. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department was investigating both the Stump case and Mom’s case simultaneously and was interrogating Mark Ripin in regard to both missing persons cases. Yet apparently nobody found anything the slightest bit suspicious about the fact that the same man was linked to both cases. In the summer of 2003, Mitchell Denker was convicted of two felonies -- Transporting Monetary Instruments and perjury. He was sentenced to five months in prison and disbarred in the state of Florida. This proof that Denker was as much of a crook as Mark Ripin and Gary Argenzio caused me to start wondering if all three men might have been involved in my mother’s disappearance. I immediately requested that Detective James Norman of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department provide me with reports from their 1981 and 1995 investigations. Det. Norman informed me that the files from 1981 did not exist. I was not surprised to hear this, because my Grandma had been trying to get those files for years and had been told they didn’t exist. I was stunned, however, to be told now that former Sheriff William Freeman had deliberately destroyed all case files from the years 1981-1983 and some from 1984. Det. Norman said he couldn’t say why for sure, but had heard a rumor about a big drug bust called the “Big Pine 29” that occurred on Big Pine Key during that time period. Mitchell Denker was the defense attorney for one of the suspected drug smugglers. I contacted Sheriff Richard Roth to ask him about Mom’s files. Sheriff Roth told me that, in 1981, he was a detective and remembers this incident. He said it wasn’t an uncommon thing back then for the Sheriff to get rid of old case files. However, when Mom’s files were destroyed they were not old at all! My Grandma was still communicating with detectives about the case. But I did receive the reports from the 1995 investigation, which is how I got the names to run through the search engine. When Mark Ripin’s name took me to the Tom Stump case, I posted a question on the message board, asking if anyone had heard of “Mitchell Denker.” Someone responded by quoting a post by Mark Ripin in which he cryptically asked: "What’s the connection? Manny the shark hunter, Mitchell Denker, the lawyer?" (I’ve since found out that Manilito “Manny” Pluig, a shark hunter who swims with the sharks, was hired by Bernie Ripin/Stump/Becker to aid in the search for Tom. The answer to Ripin’s question could well be: “Both men swim with the sharks,” one literally, one figuratively.) Someone else posted a quote from Bernie’s deposition in which she admitted to living in Mitchell Denker’s house. Since Bernie was married to Mark Ripin at that time, that would seem to suggest that they both were on the premises when Mom vanished. Bernie has since told me she knew my mom and my mom showed her photos of my brother and me. Yet, Bernie didn't bother to report Mom missing, even though Bernie's own husband said he saw a hole in the wall that was made by Mom's head. Another thing I find bewildering is that, when requestioned by police in 1995, Mitchell Denker -- a practicing attorney who should know the law -- stated that in his opinion there was more than enough evidence to indict Gary Argenzio for my mom's murder, but the Sheriff’s Department hadn’t seemed interested in pursuing it. He specifically cited Mom's disappearance and missing body and Argenzio's flight with Robert Thompson’s boat. Yet, back in 1982, when Argenzio was tried for stealing that boat, Mitchell Denker’s cousin, a member of his own law firm, defended Argenzio for free, and nobody even mentioned my missing mother. In fact, Mark Ripin testified in Argenzio's behalf. My mom was a wonderful mother, and I loved her dearly, but she led a difficult life. After an abusive marriage that ended in divorced, she witnessed her brother shoot himself in the mouth. She attempted to self-medicate by smoking marijuana, but that did little to erase the gristly vision. She relocated to Florida in an effort to escape that awful memory, and continued to smoke marijuana. But she never used hard drugs until she met Gary Argenzio, and I doubt that she had any idea what she was getting into when she started her association with that group of people. I had my mother for only ten years, but I thank God for every one of them. I have beautiful memories of my life with her. She worked hard, cooked wonderful food, and was never too busy to play with my brother and me. She was a very affectionate mother and, no matter how tired she was or how weighed down by worries, she gave us unstinting love and attention. My mom was my world. For 25 years I’ve been trying to find out what happened to her, and I will not stop until I get an answer that makes sense. Christine Hill (Diana Harris’s daughter) |
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| monkalup | Jan 17 2009, 11:32 AM Post #9 |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://kidnappingmurderandmayhem.blogspot....se-defiled.html Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Paradise Defiled How does a young child cope when her mother vanishes into thin air? It has long been known that the effects of violent crime spread like a circle of water when a stone is thrown into a pond because those closest to the victim have to live with the memories and consequences. When Diana Lynn Harris [pictured] disappeared in 1981, her daughter Christine was ten-years-old. This is her story. Key West has a history. From wreckers to rum-runners to drug smugglers to official corruption, life in America’s southern-most city has always seethed with crime and violence. By the early 1980s, slimy drug runners had infested paradise. It was into this culture that Diana Lynn Harris moved. Diana left Michigan and came south for a new start. She brought along her two children, Chrissy, 10, and Mikey, 8. And she brought a new boyfriend. The group settled into an old hotel that had been converted into efficiency apartments on Big Pine Key. Diana wasn’t afraid of hard work. She quickly landed two jobs, at the No Name Pub and Sugarloaf Lodge. Life for the children was idyllic. They’d escaped the winters of Michigan for palm trees and sun and surf. Chrissy and Mikey loved the beach and hanging out with their mom. Unfortunately, many of the friends that Diana made were shady at best. In fact, she landed in a nest of drug smugglers. Diana’s boyfriend didn’t like Florida and moved on. Soon she began dating Gary Argenzio. He conveniently forgot to tell her that he had once been charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, lewdness, and rape. After having spent three months in paradise, Chrissy and Mikey were sent back to Michigan. They flew out of Miami on June 7. Diana was scheduled to pick them up on August 15 when they would all attend her sister’s wedding. She never made it. One of Argenzio’s friends was Mitchell Denker, an attorney who owned what locals called a “party house.” Argenzio and Diana Lynn Harris moved into that house. Denker was known as a “drug lawyer.” In late 1980, the “Big Pine 29” drug bust occurred. Twenty-nine people were arrested as they attempted to off-load a boat filled with marijuana. Federal officers seized more than fifteen tons of the stuff from a fenced lot near Denker’s house. The lawyer was quick to represent the smugglers. After an investigation by the Feds, the Key West Police Department was declared a “criminal enterprise” under the RICO statute. Many of the KWPD officers partied at Denker’s house. Several were later fired for their ties with drug smugglers. Diana’s mother last spoke with her on July 15. After being unable to contact her daughter, her mother reported Diana missing. A week later, Argenzio stole a boat and fled the country. He was later arrested in Mexico and charged with stealing the boat. His attorney was a cousin of Mitchell Denker. Argenzio was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison. Chrissy’s life changed after her mother disappeared. She became restless, moving with the winds, and living with relatives and friends in Michigan and Texas. At 16, she was drawn back to south Florida. She ran away to Miami and began searching for her mother. Chrissy, who now goes by Christine, learned that three years after her mother vanished, KWPD had purged the files concerning the investigation of Diana’s disappearance. “There are no documents whatsoever,” Christine said. “All of the 1981 records were destroyed in 1984.” Since buying a computer, Christine has been able to contact others who research missing persons on the Internet. One such site is the Doe Network. In a recent email, she wrote: “I had stopped eating because I spent all my time searching for info online. I still feel like the information I need is right under my nose. It deeply frustrates me that I can’t find it. I feel Mom’s killer is running free today, living a good life and many in the Florida Keys know about the person, knows who murdered her and how she died and will never tell.” Over the years, Christine has entertained several theories about what happened to her mother. The most obvious is that Diana was murdered in the “party house” and her body dumped at sea. At Christine’s urging, the case was reinvestigated in 1995. At that time, police claimed that Diana disappeared from another house, this one also owned by Mitchell Denker. Police interviewed a friend of Denker named Mark Ripin. According to a police report dated August 15, 1995, “Ripin said that he and Mitch Denker arrived at the residence one Sunday evening and found a hole in the wall. They asked Argenzio about the hole and he made some comment about assaulting his girlfriend, Diane Harris. Harris was not at the residence and never showed back up after the incident...It is the opinion of Ripin that Argenzio killed Harris, took the body out on the boat and dumped it in the ocean.” Since Argenzio died after being released from prison, he makes a convenient scapegoat. The original investigators dispute Ripin’s 1995 claims about there being a “hole in the wall” at the residence. They are adamant that there was no such hole. A friend of Diana’s reported that she got a phone call from Diana the day before she disappeared. Diana confided in her friend that a big shipment of drugs was coming in and she feared the phones might be tapped. Did someone murder her because she had knowledge she shouldn’t have had or because she informed an outsider about the shipment? Another theory is that Diana was sold into “white slavery” in Turkey or Asia. Although it seems far-fetched, Mark Ripin was known to have made many trips to Asia. Many of those connected with the party house have been convicted of various crimes. Mitchell Denker was convicted of two felonies, sentenced to prison, and disbarred from practicing law in the state of Florida. Mark Ripin spent time in prison for armed robbery. Many others were convicted of drug offenses. In August, 1981, shortly after Diana’s disappearance, Gerald Douglas Oxby dispappeared from Key West. He has never been heard from. In 1995, a man named Tom Stump also disappeared from the same area as Diana. He was an associate of many of the players in Diana’s disappearance. No arrest has ever been made in any of those cases. “I’ll never let go of my mom,” Christine wrote. “I talk about her so I don’t forget the little things about her that I loved so much. She loved the beach and always took us there in Michigan and in Florida. [In Michigan] we used to go to a beach called Sleepy Hollow. In Florida we went every time she wasn’t at work to Bahia Honda Beach. We went to the zoo often, too.” What happened to Diana Lynn Harris? Someone knows. |
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