1 00:00:01,651 --> 00:00:05,129 [narrator] Dee Ann Warner disappeared on April 25, 202 2 00:00:05,756 --> 00:00:08,173 [Rikkell] Usually, every Saturday and Sunday, 3 00:00:08,208 --> 00:00:10,676 we would go over to my mom's house and have breakfast. 4 00:00:10,753 --> 00:00:12,594 She wasn't there. 5 00:00:12,671 --> 00:00:15,180 That was a huge red flag to me. 6 00:00:15,182 --> 00:00:17,599 [narrator] Her family is desperate for answers. 7 00:00:17,676 --> 00:00:19,667 Many things were bizarre. 8 00:00:19,669 --> 00:00:22,855 She took her purse. She had her phone. She had her makeup bag. 9 00:00:22,857 --> 00:00:25,065 There was no evidence of any kind of a note. 10 00:00:25,067 --> 00:00:30,696 For her to go to Mexico, go to Jamaica... No. 11 00:00:30,698 --> 00:00:33,198 [Rikkell] She got in a really bad fight with her husband. 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,869 She was ready to end the marriage. 13 00:00:36,871 --> 00:00:39,538 She was ready to sell the businesses. 14 00:00:39,615 --> 00:00:41,623 [narrator] This episode of Disappeared 15 00:00:41,625 --> 00:00:45,169 retraces Dee Ann's last known steps. 16 00:00:45,212 --> 00:00:49,006 [Amy] She wouldn't leave us wondering what happened. 17 00:00:49,008 --> 00:00:50,123 She wouldn't do this to her kids. 18 00:00:50,125 --> 00:00:52,634 She wouldn't do this to her grandkids. 19 00:00:52,711 --> 00:00:58,640 [Rikkell] Watching the FBI, the police dig, was a mix of emotions. 20 00:00:58,642 --> 00:01:01,018 I want my mom to be alive, 21 00:01:01,020 --> 00:01:04,605 but I know that my mom would never leave us. 22 00:01:04,607 --> 00:01:08,025 [Billy] There will be closure for the family. I guarantee it. 23 00:01:08,027 --> 00:01:10,486 I will not be gone until there's closure. 24 00:01:10,562 --> 00:01:13,572 [narrator] The more people who know Dee Ann's story, 25 00:01:13,574 --> 00:01:16,325 the greater the chance of bringing her home. 26 00:01:16,327 --> 00:01:21,330 Share on social media. Get the word out. Help find her. 27 00:01:22,083 --> 00:01:24,416 Have you seen Dee Ann Warner 28 00:01:37,848 --> 00:01:39,681 [Rikkell] My name is Rikkell Bock 29 00:01:39,758 --> 00:01:43,352 and I am Dee's youngest adult daughter. 30 00:01:43,428 --> 00:01:46,647 It was a Saturday and I went over to her house 31 00:01:46,723 --> 00:01:50,192 and that was the last time I got to see her. 32 00:01:52,321 --> 00:01:57,199 My mom had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody. 33 00:01:57,276 --> 00:02:01,245 "The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight, 34 00:02:01,288 --> 00:02:04,248 and hunkered them down in their nest for the night." 35 00:02:05,084 --> 00:02:07,668 If you needed her, she would be there. 36 00:02:07,744 --> 00:02:10,087 But you also didn't wanna get on her bad side 37 00:02:10,089 --> 00:02:12,506 and you didn't wanna lie to her 38 00:02:12,583 --> 00:02:14,299 'cause she took care of business. 39 00:02:15,886 --> 00:02:18,345 [Amy] My name is Amy Alexand 40 00:02:18,347 --> 00:02:22,641 and I have known Dee for the last 12 years. 41 00:02:23,727 --> 00:02:25,435 Dee was the life of the part 42 00:02:25,437 --> 00:02:28,272 She radiated light. She radiated life. 43 00:02:28,274 --> 00:02:34,069 She texted everybody and had to know everything about everyone 44 00:02:34,071 --> 00:02:36,321 because she genuinely cared for people. 45 00:02:36,398 --> 00:02:37,948 She always went above and beyond for people. 46 00:02:37,950 --> 00:02:39,741 Very, very giving woman. 47 00:02:39,743 --> 00:02:42,744 Her kids and her grandkids meant everything to her. 48 00:02:42,821 --> 00:02:47,916 I have an older sister and then two older brothers from my dad, 49 00:02:47,951 --> 00:02:53,422 and then Angelina, half-sister, from my mom and her second husband Dale 50 00:02:53,498 --> 00:02:56,550 My sister and Mr. Warner took up when they were both married. 51 00:02:57,428 --> 00:02:59,303 It raised a lot of eyebrows 52 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:01,346 particularly because you wouldn't match them. 53 00:03:01,423 --> 00:03:03,307 I mean, she had a dynamic personality 54 00:03:03,309 --> 00:03:05,726 that was outgoing and vivacious. 55 00:03:05,802 --> 00:03:07,936 He had more of an introvert personality. 56 00:03:07,938 --> 00:03:11,064 So they were, dynamically, polar opposites, 57 00:03:11,141 --> 00:03:12,858 not only in their personalities 58 00:03:12,860 --> 00:03:14,735 but also in how they presented themselves. 59 00:03:14,811 --> 00:03:17,112 He had to be far from a GQ guide, for sur 60 00:03:17,114 --> 00:03:19,948 She was more high-maintenanc well-taken-care-of woman. 61 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,701 In fact, I don't ever remember seeing her out of the house without her makeup on. 62 00:03:22,778 --> 00:03:24,786 And he was the total opposit 63 00:03:24,821 --> 00:03:27,497 I mean, I never seen the guy withou a pair of blue jeans on, 64 00:03:27,499 --> 00:03:29,208 a work shirt and a pair of work boots. 65 00:03:29,284 --> 00:03:32,127 Their way of meshing was business. 66 00:03:33,047 --> 00:03:35,672 And I think that's what drove them together. 67 00:03:35,716 --> 00:03:38,008 They had the same dreams, the same goals, 68 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:40,177 and they could accomplish that together. 69 00:03:40,221 --> 00:03:44,932 You know, they started with one busine and then grew to five. 70 00:03:45,768 --> 00:03:47,217 [McKenzie] My name is McKenzie Kuehnlein. 71 00:03:47,228 --> 00:03:52,231 I'm an anchor and reporter with WTVG 13abc. 72 00:03:52,307 --> 00:03:56,193 So, I cover a lot of Lenawee County. That's a bit of my beat. 73 00:03:56,195 --> 00:03:57,945 I'm also from the area. 74 00:03:57,947 --> 00:04:01,490 Lenawee County is a very rural area 75 00:04:01,492 --> 00:04:02,741 and Dee and Dale Warner's family 76 00:04:02,743 --> 00:04:05,202 is definitely a dynasty in the community, 77 00:04:05,204 --> 00:04:09,164 specifically when it comes to the farming side of things. 78 00:04:09,166 --> 00:04:13,001 They both have farming backgrounds that span generations. 79 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:16,004 Dee's family and her brother Gregg Hardy 80 00:04:16,081 --> 00:04:18,382 has a mega dairy farm just down the road. 81 00:04:18,425 --> 00:04:22,135 And Dale also started his business War-AG 82 00:04:22,137 --> 00:04:24,513 and then Dee started what was a trucking business 83 00:04:24,589 --> 00:04:26,807 so they were very well known 84 00:04:26,883 --> 00:04:30,310 But family and friends will tell you that this was no perfect marriage. 85 00:04:30,312 --> 00:04:32,178 They had a rocky relationship. 86 00:04:32,255 --> 00:04:36,525 A lot of times, they had arguments that were based on their business. 87 00:04:36,527 --> 00:04:40,153 [Amy] There were some very poor business decision that were made 88 00:04:40,230 --> 00:04:44,032 and she always felt like she had to fix everything. 89 00:04:44,034 --> 00:04:49,162 She would often talk to me about divorcing Dale or leaving Dale. 90 00:04:49,164 --> 00:04:51,290 That conversation happened a lot 91 00:04:51,292 --> 00:04:55,252 where she was going to leave she was gonna divorce him, she was done. 92 00:04:55,296 --> 00:04:57,170 When I was young, we would leave 93 00:04:57,172 --> 00:04:59,339 and we would go stay at a hotel. 94 00:04:59,416 --> 00:05:03,427 We'd stay at my uncle's for a night or two and then we'd go back. 95 00:05:03,429 --> 00:05:08,265 And everything was fine until the next fight and we'd leave. 96 00:05:13,564 --> 00:05:16,440 My house is actually right behind my mom's farm. 97 00:05:17,067 --> 00:05:19,484 So, usually, every Sunday 98 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:23,113 we would go over to her house in the morning and have breakfast. 99 00:05:24,408 --> 00:05:26,408 So it was just a normal Sunday. 100 00:05:27,202 --> 00:05:29,411 I went over there with my family. 101 00:05:29,413 --> 00:05:30,746 She wasn't there. 102 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:34,916 We walked all around the house. 103 00:05:34,918 --> 00:05:36,793 I couldn't find my little sister or Dal 104 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:40,047 so I assumed she was maybe with them. 105 00:05:41,508 --> 00:05:44,343 But she wasn't responding to my text messages, so I called her... 106 00:05:44,345 --> 00:05:46,595 [phone rings] 107 00:05:46,671 --> 00:05:52,225 ...and her phone went straight to voicemail, which doesn't happen ever. 108 00:05:52,227 --> 00:05:54,061 She never shuts her phone of 109 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:58,482 I knew that if she wasn't going to be there she would have told me, 110 00:05:58,484 --> 00:06:01,526 so that was a huge red flag to me. 111 00:06:03,155 --> 00:06:06,031 Dale ended up calling me a couple hours later 112 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:09,201 and asking me if I had heard from her, 113 00:06:09,203 --> 00:06:11,495 and said, "Well, she's mad at me again," 114 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:15,332 and she was leaving him for good. 115 00:06:21,715 --> 00:06:25,592 I was too shocked at the situation 116 00:06:25,594 --> 00:06:30,013 to even comprehend what he was really saying. 117 00:06:30,015 --> 00:06:31,515 I just stayed quiet. 118 00:06:32,976 --> 00:06:34,726 I just had a really strange feeling. 119 00:06:38,023 --> 00:06:42,109 On Sunday evening I confronted Mr. Warner face-to-face 120 00:06:43,654 --> 00:06:46,029 and said, "Dale," and this is a quote, 121 00:06:46,031 --> 00:06:48,824 "What the hell went on here? What the hell happened?" 122 00:06:50,244 --> 00:06:54,454 He explained to me that they'd had a horrible fight the night before. 123 00:06:56,208 --> 00:06:58,458 She had been very upset. 124 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:02,212 And he had given her a back massage on the living room floor 125 00:07:02,214 --> 00:07:03,905 and she fell asleep. 126 00:07:03,982 --> 00:07:07,592 He picked her up and put her on the couch about 10:30-or-so 127 00:07:07,594 --> 00:07:09,819 and he went to bed. 128 00:07:14,643 --> 00:07:19,938 And when he got up at 6:30 in the morning to go out to work on the far 129 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:22,357 she was snoring on the couch. 130 00:07:24,194 --> 00:07:26,653 He said, you know, that she took off. 131 00:07:28,532 --> 00:07:31,324 He reaches in his left-hand pocket 132 00:07:31,401 --> 00:07:34,327 and pulled out her wedding ring in his left hand 133 00:07:34,404 --> 00:07:37,372 and bounced it up and down like a golf ball, 134 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:39,332 and he said, "She left this on my desk." 135 00:07:41,336 --> 00:07:43,244 Many things were bizarre. 136 00:07:43,321 --> 00:07:46,339 There was no evidence of any kind of a note or anything like that. 137 00:07:48,177 --> 00:07:49,926 Her car was in the garage. 138 00:07:51,013 --> 00:07:53,180 I said, "Well, Dale, she didn't walk 139 00:07:53,182 --> 00:07:55,140 She never walked anywhere. She always drove her car. 140 00:07:55,142 --> 00:07:56,641 "How do you think she left?" 141 00:07:56,718 --> 00:07:59,144 And he said, "Well, somebody must have picked her up." 142 00:08:00,397 --> 00:08:03,023 She took her purse. She had her phone. 143 00:08:03,099 --> 00:08:06,818 She had her makeup bag and her curling iron. 144 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:13,408 I called my brother and had him look at the cameras. 145 00:08:14,536 --> 00:08:17,913 He came to the office because, at the time, he worked there, 146 00:08:17,915 --> 00:08:20,749 and he looked through all of the cameras, 147 00:08:20,751 --> 00:08:22,709 so on the exterior of the house, 148 00:08:22,711 --> 00:08:25,837 the inside of the office, all around the buildings, 149 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:30,175 just to see who was there, at what times and what they were doing. 150 00:08:30,252 --> 00:08:32,719 And there was nothing with her. 151 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:34,137 You couldn't find her at all 152 00:08:36,934 --> 00:08:39,226 By five or six o'clock that night 153 00:08:39,228 --> 00:08:43,688 my siblings all decided that it would be a good idea to contact the police, 154 00:08:43,690 --> 00:08:46,691 so we made our missing person's report. 155 00:08:53,242 --> 00:08:55,992 [Troy] My name is Troy Bevie I'm the sheriff of Lenawee County 156 00:08:55,994 --> 00:08:58,954 investigating the disappearance of Dee Warner 157 00:09:02,501 --> 00:09:05,627 So, our deputy responded out to the location 158 00:09:05,629 --> 00:09:08,129 to take a missing person report. 159 00:09:08,206 --> 00:09:10,215 The deputy did talk to Dale initially 160 00:09:10,217 --> 00:09:14,386 and the information that Dale gave to the deputy was that she just took off. 161 00:09:14,462 --> 00:09:17,347 And our deputy had some concerns 162 00:09:17,391 --> 00:09:21,226 and that's why, the next day, the detective was following up on it. 163 00:09:22,479 --> 00:09:24,396 What's unusual here, 164 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:30,235 things were not taken that normally were, car or other personal items. 165 00:09:30,237 --> 00:09:35,407 That really spawned us to start doing more investigation around the home. 166 00:09:37,119 --> 00:09:40,370 [Amy] I'm 47 years old. I've never known anybody to disappear. 167 00:09:40,372 --> 00:09:43,248 Never even knew somebody that knew somebody that disappeared. 168 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:45,709 In fact, we leave our keys in our vehicles. 169 00:09:45,711 --> 00:09:47,811 We hardly lock our house. 170 00:09:47,813 --> 00:09:50,755 [McKenzie] So, news of Dee's disappearance consumed the county. 171 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,799 This type of thing just doesn't happen. 172 00:09:52,801 --> 00:09:56,886 This was the biggest news to break in this area in years. 173 00:09:56,888 --> 00:09:58,847 And so, a lot of people had question 174 00:09:58,849 --> 00:10:01,224 about what happened to Dee, where she was, 175 00:10:01,226 --> 00:10:03,518 and they were all wanting answers as well. 176 00:10:06,231 --> 00:10:08,231 [Rikkell] We reported her missing on a Sunday. 177 00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:11,484 They came on a Tuesday to do a big search at the farm 178 00:10:11,561 --> 00:10:15,488 with the helicopters, the drones, the dogs. 179 00:10:15,490 --> 00:10:21,161 Dale initially gave consent for them to search the farm and the house, 180 00:10:22,664 --> 00:10:27,459 but within two hours he revoked consent 181 00:10:27,461 --> 00:10:29,711 and told them to leave and come back with a warrant 182 00:10:29,713 --> 00:10:31,671 'cause he needed to go back to work. 183 00:10:31,673 --> 00:10:35,967 I just remember listening to him tell me why he did that 184 00:10:35,969 --> 00:10:39,429 and all I keep thinking in my head is, "Your wife is missing." 185 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:43,058 We have a lot of farmers in Lenawee County. 186 00:10:43,060 --> 00:10:47,687 And there's a lot of farmers that, when it's time to farm, it's time to farm, 187 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:50,065 even if someone is missing, whether that's right or wrong. 188 00:10:50,067 --> 00:10:53,109 But we continued on with our investigation. 189 00:10:57,366 --> 00:11:01,660 By the time they got their warrant approved and signed by a judge 190 00:11:01,662 --> 00:11:03,620 and got themselves gathered together, 191 00:11:03,664 --> 00:11:07,165 it was dark when they got back on that evening. 192 00:11:07,242 --> 00:11:09,793 And I know that for sure because I was actually 193 00:11:09,795 --> 00:11:13,004 farming in a field where I could watch them right next door. 194 00:11:13,081 --> 00:11:17,592 It was certainly inhibited by darkness 195 00:11:17,594 --> 00:11:21,012 and would not be anywhere near as good a search 196 00:11:21,014 --> 00:11:22,389 as they would've done in the daylight 197 00:11:22,391 --> 00:11:24,273 when they were there to start with. 198 00:11:24,275 --> 00:11:29,437 It's just frustrating and it's horribly painful for the family. 199 00:11:29,514 --> 00:11:32,107 [Rikkell] So, we just were waiting. 200 00:11:32,192 --> 00:11:34,567 And we kept waiting for something. 201 00:11:34,569 --> 00:11:36,319 There has to be something there 202 00:11:36,354 --> 00:11:38,905 that proves whatever happened. 203 00:11:38,907 --> 00:11:43,326 It felt like I got punched in the gut because it was just nothing 204 00:11:47,749 --> 00:11:53,044 And I just was very confused at why Dale just didn't seem concerned. 205 00:11:53,672 --> 00:11:56,840 [Gregg] At this point, I actually told Dale, 206 00:11:56,883 --> 00:12:00,343 "You're the husband. You're the spouse. All eyes are gonna be on you." 207 00:12:09,438 --> 00:12:12,105 [Amy] So, that Saturday she had texted 208 00:12:12,107 --> 00:12:16,359 that there was a big fight and that she was very upset with Dale. 209 00:12:16,403 --> 00:12:18,987 Dee was definitely the type that if something upset her 210 00:12:18,989 --> 00:12:20,739 she had no problem telling anybody. 211 00:12:20,741 --> 00:12:23,575 She was going to send Angelina somewhere 212 00:12:23,577 --> 00:12:27,662 and I said, "Well, let her come over and play with her cousin." 213 00:12:27,739 --> 00:12:29,247 So, she said, "Okay." 214 00:12:29,324 --> 00:12:31,958 And I got there at 7:42 215 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,419 and that was the last that I ever... 216 00:12:36,506 --> 00:12:39,132 Her phone was off after that. 217 00:12:43,388 --> 00:12:47,015 [Rikkell] That was the day she got in a really bad figh with Dale, her husband. 218 00:12:47,726 --> 00:12:51,561 She was ready to end the marriage. 219 00:12:51,563 --> 00:12:54,189 She was ready to sell the businesses. 220 00:12:54,191 --> 00:12:55,732 She was ready to leave. 221 00:12:56,651 --> 00:12:59,027 That was the last time I got to see her. 222 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:06,826 [McKenzie] So, from the very beginning, 223 00:13:06,903 --> 00:13:09,245 Dale maintained that Dee left on her own accord, 224 00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:11,664 possibly to Mexico, Jamaica. 225 00:13:11,741 --> 00:13:15,210 Now, the sheriff's office says that this is a possibility, 226 00:13:15,212 --> 00:13:16,795 but when we talked to the family, 227 00:13:16,797 --> 00:13:19,672 they said this is no way that Dee would just up and leave, 228 00:13:19,749 --> 00:13:21,508 especially with a young chil 229 00:13:21,543 --> 00:13:23,384 You start process of elimination 230 00:13:23,386 --> 00:13:25,136 and the first one to get eliminated 231 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,514 was, actually, someone picking her up. 232 00:13:28,850 --> 00:13:30,683 I contacted all of her friends. 233 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,852 All of them were extremely surprised 234 00:13:32,854 --> 00:13:37,941 about what I was telling them about Dee's disappearance. 235 00:13:37,943 --> 00:13:41,486 We had no one that could've, quote, unquot "Picked up Dee," 236 00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:43,212 given her a ride. 237 00:13:44,491 --> 00:13:47,200 [Troy] So, as we respond to a missing person report, 238 00:13:47,277 --> 00:13:51,037 you let the facts send you in the direction that you need to go in. 239 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,290 So, as you're getting that information, 240 00:13:54,292 --> 00:13:56,501 you wanna make sure that you're asking things like, 241 00:13:56,578 --> 00:13:58,628 "Did they take a particular credit card?" 242 00:14:00,590 --> 00:14:03,091 So that you can look at bank accounts. 243 00:14:03,093 --> 00:14:05,009 [Amy] There's no bank activity. 244 00:14:05,011 --> 00:14:12,642 You can't go MIA and not have availability to funds, to money. 245 00:14:12,644 --> 00:14:15,812 My sister, respectfully, she was high-maintenance, okay? 246 00:14:15,814 --> 00:14:17,480 So her lifestyle, wasn't gonna, 247 00:14:17,482 --> 00:14:19,232 you know, live in the woods in some tent. 248 00:14:19,234 --> 00:14:21,651 So, she would've had to have money 249 00:14:21,653 --> 00:14:23,611 and she would've had to have a lot of it. 250 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:29,617 The probability of her leaving him a wedding ring that was sizeable 251 00:14:29,619 --> 00:14:31,619 is flat zero. 252 00:14:32,664 --> 00:14:36,124 That would've been an easy thing to generate cash by. 253 00:14:36,918 --> 00:14:39,794 We had many concerns when she went missing. 254 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:44,007 Dee wasn't a person who would go hide and not say anything. 255 00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:45,884 She was a communicator. 256 00:14:47,429 --> 00:14:49,679 The information that we really had from the family, and it made sense, 257 00:14:49,681 --> 00:14:53,433 was she would never not get in touch with them. 258 00:14:53,509 --> 00:14:55,977 You know, it was clear afte the facts started to come ou 259 00:14:55,979 --> 00:14:58,897 that finding the truth about what happened to Dee 260 00:14:58,899 --> 00:15:03,151 would be a little more difficult than we had initially thought. 261 00:15:05,322 --> 00:15:08,031 It wasn't unusual that she might have wanted to get away 262 00:15:08,033 --> 00:15:10,617 because of a fight with her husband, 263 00:15:10,693 --> 00:15:13,953 but it was the circumstances around how she left. 264 00:15:15,081 --> 00:15:16,998 No car, no daughter, 265 00:15:17,075 --> 00:15:19,792 no contact, no nothing. 266 00:15:19,794 --> 00:15:21,753 And so, I was concerned about 267 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:24,213 how she may have harmed herself. 268 00:15:27,260 --> 00:15:29,168 We had a community search 269 00:15:29,170 --> 00:15:31,596 that took place on the Saturday after she went missing. 270 00:15:31,598 --> 00:15:36,100 There were 40 or 50 people that spent hours walking the property 271 00:15:38,313 --> 00:15:41,606 looking for a body because of a potential suicide. 272 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,319 Early in the spring, there was no foliage or anything like that, 273 00:15:46,396 --> 00:15:49,155 so everything was pretty visible at that time. 274 00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:52,116 We walked the property, looked all over 275 00:15:52,118 --> 00:15:54,619 and couldn't find any evidence whatsoever. 276 00:15:56,998 --> 00:15:59,624 And then in addition to tha and during that week, 277 00:15:59,626 --> 00:16:02,919 I had been speaking to experts in criminal psychology 278 00:16:02,921 --> 00:16:05,380 and in psychology and psychiatry, 279 00:16:05,382 --> 00:16:08,091 talking about, how does a woman commit suicide? 280 00:16:08,134 --> 00:16:13,096 And it became very obvious that that wasn't a possibility. 281 00:16:13,932 --> 00:16:18,434 She did not have the capability to leave Angelina, 282 00:16:18,478 --> 00:16:20,853 or she does not have the capability 283 00:16:20,855 --> 00:16:23,690 to put anybody else through this hurt. 284 00:16:23,692 --> 00:16:28,569 There's no way possible that she would hurt any of us this bad. 285 00:16:28,571 --> 00:16:29,988 She didn't have it in her. 286 00:16:30,064 --> 00:16:35,743 She wouldn't leave us... wondering what happened. 287 00:16:35,820 --> 00:16:37,578 She wouldn't do this to her kids. 288 00:16:37,580 --> 00:16:39,956 She wouldn't do this to her grandkids. 289 00:16:39,958 --> 00:16:44,377 "The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight..." 290 00:16:44,379 --> 00:16:46,921 [Gregg] So, we instantly began investigating 291 00:16:46,923 --> 00:16:51,634 that toxic relationship between my sister and Mr. Warner. 292 00:16:54,305 --> 00:16:57,306 So, that Saturday, when I was there picking up Angelina, 293 00:16:57,308 --> 00:16:58,599 Dale pulled in. 294 00:16:59,477 --> 00:17:02,311 And when she saw him she acted afraid, 295 00:17:02,313 --> 00:17:04,439 like she wanted to run from the door. 296 00:17:06,818 --> 00:17:08,860 I've seen Dee upset many times, 297 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:15,033 but this was on a whole different level of being upset. 298 00:17:15,109 --> 00:17:19,162 She never, ever expressed anything to me about being scared of him 299 00:17:19,205 --> 00:17:23,958 until the day before she went missing. 300 00:17:25,545 --> 00:17:27,295 By the end of our conversation, 301 00:17:27,297 --> 00:17:30,673 she kind of randomly just said, 302 00:17:30,675 --> 00:17:32,341 "I watch Dateline, like, every night 303 00:17:32,343 --> 00:17:34,302 and he could do something like that to me." 304 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:40,892 [Amy] I definitely have a lot of regret, 305 00:17:40,894 --> 00:17:43,895 not staying or not taking her with me 306 00:17:43,897 --> 00:17:47,106 or making sure she left the house. 307 00:17:48,693 --> 00:17:50,459 [Gregg] For me, the most bizarre 308 00:17:50,461 --> 00:17:54,280 was Dale's total lack of concern, his total lack of emotion... 309 00:17:54,282 --> 00:17:56,032 his total demeanor about, 310 00:17:56,034 --> 00:18:00,244 "I just wanna get my life normal and go on," 311 00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:05,708 was, in my opinion, more impactful than sending the search party away. 312 00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:08,586 [Troy] When the investigation started, 313 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,672 the lead detective pretty much spelled it out for Dale. 314 00:18:11,674 --> 00:18:13,925 "You're the husband. You're the last person that saw her. 315 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:17,845 You are gonna be the person that everybody focusses on, including us." 316 00:18:22,811 --> 00:18:24,435 [Larry] My name's Larry Leib 317 00:18:24,512 --> 00:18:26,312 I'm an attorney here in Michigan. 318 00:18:26,314 --> 00:18:30,024 Maybe two or three days after Dee went missing, 319 00:18:30,902 --> 00:18:34,195 I got a call from Dale and I agreed to represent hi 320 00:18:34,272 --> 00:18:36,155 It is a bizarre situation. 321 00:18:36,157 --> 00:18:37,615 I don't even wanna call it a case. 322 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,325 I think it's really a situation. 323 00:18:39,402 --> 00:18:41,410 There's been no evidence whatsoever 324 00:18:41,412 --> 00:18:45,206 that connects him or anybody close to him to her disappearance. 325 00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:51,295 [McKenzie] Early on, Dee's family, they were suspicious of Dale 326 00:18:51,372 --> 00:18:54,924 But those that support Dale say that there could have be other theories. 327 00:18:54,926 --> 00:18:56,417 So, as part of our reporting, 328 00:18:56,419 --> 00:18:59,345 we did find that Dee had an argument with an employee 329 00:18:59,347 --> 00:19:02,807 just a few days before her disappearance. 330 00:19:02,809 --> 00:19:06,936 [Larry] I understand that Dee was a difficult person to work with 331 00:19:06,938 --> 00:19:09,230 and somebody specific didn't care for her. 332 00:19:09,232 --> 00:19:12,108 [Amy] You're going to ruffle some feathers 333 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:15,027 and you're gonna step on some toes when you're in business. 334 00:19:15,029 --> 00:19:17,947 You can't possibly please everybody. 335 00:19:19,909 --> 00:19:22,493 [Rikkell] She got in a really bad fight with a couple employees 336 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:26,414 and she was really, really upset. 337 00:19:26,875 --> 00:19:28,815 [McKenzie] So, we were shown a text messag 338 00:19:28,817 --> 00:19:31,961 that Dee received just a few days before her disappearance. 339 00:19:31,963 --> 00:19:35,173 That text was sent by someone who was close with the employee 340 00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:37,216 that Dee got into that argument with 341 00:19:38,136 --> 00:19:39,568 The text message was pretty nasty. 342 00:19:39,570 --> 00:19:42,013 It was rude and insulting, called her a mess, 343 00:19:42,015 --> 00:19:46,392 even alleging that she was taking anti-anxiety medication. 344 00:19:46,394 --> 00:19:48,811 So this text raised a lot of red flags 345 00:19:48,855 --> 00:19:50,646 and a lot of people were wondering, 346 00:19:50,681 --> 00:19:53,191 "Did this play a role in Dee's disappearance?" 347 00:20:01,242 --> 00:20:02,691 The Lenawee County sheriff's office 348 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:05,745 has not made any comment about these text messages, 349 00:20:05,747 --> 00:20:08,414 so it definitely has a lot more questions than answers 350 00:20:08,416 --> 00:20:10,458 when it comes to those text messages. 351 00:20:10,460 --> 00:20:13,502 Dee's family thinks that she handled the business wel 352 00:20:13,546 --> 00:20:17,131 so the fact that she would have any sort of violence within the workplace 353 00:20:17,166 --> 00:20:19,508 is something that her family definitely does not think would happen. 354 00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:24,555 I never really had any concern for her safety with the employees. 355 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:29,018 I felt like she had a pretty strong bond with most of them. 356 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:32,230 Most of her employees have worked for her for a long time. 357 00:20:37,862 --> 00:20:44,784 So, in August of '21 Dale called my spouse Dustin. 358 00:20:44,860 --> 00:20:49,080 He had something that he thought we needed to see 359 00:20:49,082 --> 00:20:52,792 I, of course, was, like, ready for something. 360 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,736 So we went over there 361 00:20:55,738 --> 00:21:03,219 and he hands me this three-page letter in my mom's handwriting. 362 00:21:03,221 --> 00:21:08,099 Dale said that he found it about a week after she disappeared 363 00:21:09,978 --> 00:21:14,272 and he'd just gave it to the sheriff's department 364 00:21:14,274 --> 00:21:18,234 Why are you just now handing that over? 365 00:21:20,321 --> 00:21:26,784 On this letter, it talked about how much my mom loved him 366 00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:32,123 and how she worked so hard for him to be happy, 367 00:21:32,199 --> 00:21:34,208 and she just couldn't make him happy. 368 00:21:34,285 --> 00:21:36,961 It didn't talk about that she was leaving. 369 00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:40,965 And then it kind of abruptly ended. 370 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:43,342 With no signature. 371 00:21:43,761 --> 00:21:45,344 Nothing. 372 00:21:45,346 --> 00:21:47,430 I took pictures of this letter. 373 00:21:47,473 --> 00:21:49,223 And I sent it to my siblings. 374 00:21:50,310 --> 00:21:53,019 And my brother said, 375 00:21:53,021 --> 00:21:56,355 "I know that this letter isn't recent. 376 00:21:56,432 --> 00:21:59,650 She wrote this letter a couple of years ago." 377 00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:03,654 It was very strange. 378 00:22:03,656 --> 00:22:04,864 And that was when I realized... 379 00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:07,325 he's manipulating me to think that 380 00:22:07,744 --> 00:22:09,452 she took off on us. 381 00:22:10,413 --> 00:22:11,954 And I know that's not true. 382 00:22:16,919 --> 00:22:18,461 [McKenzie] So, in October 2021, 383 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:20,755 I was called out on breaking news that 384 00:22:20,757 --> 00:22:24,884 FBI agents were at the property of Dale and Dee Warner. 385 00:22:24,886 --> 00:22:27,011 When we arrived on scene we saw 386 00:22:27,013 --> 00:22:29,180 the Lenawee County sheriff's office there, Michigan State police, 387 00:22:29,256 --> 00:22:30,681 along with the FBI 388 00:22:30,758 --> 00:22:33,768 and they had crime scene tape up around the entire area. 389 00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:36,604 We definitely knew something big was either happening 390 00:22:36,606 --> 00:22:40,232 or about to happen with the amount of authorities that were on scene. 391 00:22:40,234 --> 00:22:42,526 [Troy] In October, we actually 392 00:22:42,528 --> 00:22:45,571 had the opportunity to bring in the FBI. 393 00:22:45,573 --> 00:22:49,492 They had a lot of resources and a lot of agents. 394 00:22:49,535 --> 00:22:52,787 They brought in sonar penetrating devices, 395 00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:54,963 so we could search the ground. 396 00:22:54,965 --> 00:22:56,916 [reporter] Law enforcement agencies including the Lenawee County sheriff's department 397 00:22:56,918 --> 00:23:00,961 Michigan State police and even the FBI were involved with today's search 398 00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:03,839 which included looking through acres of property on the Warners' farm 399 00:23:03,883 --> 00:23:06,175 and excavating a nearby fiel 400 00:23:06,177 --> 00:23:08,552 [Rikkell] Excavators, dogs, everything. 401 00:23:08,629 --> 00:23:10,096 Luminol the house. 402 00:23:10,098 --> 00:23:12,223 I sat on my lawn. 403 00:23:12,642 --> 00:23:13,933 With my family. 404 00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:16,118 My brothers. 405 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,730 And watched them dig in the field right next to my house. 406 00:23:20,775 --> 00:23:24,360 We did not get warned that that was happening. 407 00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:28,531 Watching them dig was a mix of emotions. 408 00:23:29,283 --> 00:23:30,741 I wanted an answer. 409 00:23:31,369 --> 00:23:32,243 So bad. 410 00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:34,703 I wanted this to end so bad 411 00:23:34,747 --> 00:23:37,415 that I didn't care what it was that they found. 412 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,501 I want my mom to be alive. 413 00:23:42,004 --> 00:23:46,048 But I know that my mom would never leave us. 414 00:23:46,050 --> 00:23:48,801 [reporter] Bevier tells us there are no new leads after today's search. 415 00:23:48,803 --> 00:23:50,261 And no persons of interest. 416 00:23:50,337 --> 00:23:52,221 The Lenawee County sheriff's office says 417 00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:54,473 they are working to solve this case for her family. 418 00:23:54,475 --> 00:23:56,809 We were able to rule out some things, 419 00:23:56,811 --> 00:23:58,853 but we were also able to get some things 420 00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:00,688 that I'm really not gonna be able to comment on, 421 00:24:00,764 --> 00:24:03,732 because it is an active investigation. 422 00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:06,652 [Rikkell] The emotions I was feeling was hope... 423 00:24:07,655 --> 00:24:09,196 that there was gonna be some end to this. 424 00:24:10,992 --> 00:24:12,450 But there wasn't. 425 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,326 This is just another let dow 426 00:24:15,538 --> 00:24:17,204 [Gregg] I don't wanna sound ungrateful. 427 00:24:17,281 --> 00:24:19,457 I'm very grateful that they did it, 428 00:24:19,459 --> 00:24:22,042 but it fell into that category too little too late. 429 00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:27,923 They have searched his home multiple times. 430 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:30,468 They've searched his office, they've searched his warehouse. 431 00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:32,052 They've searched the fields. 432 00:24:32,054 --> 00:24:34,430 The FBI came in and dug up the fields. 433 00:24:34,474 --> 00:24:37,141 They used sonar to try to fi 434 00:24:37,143 --> 00:24:39,560 any evidence they possibly can. 435 00:24:39,637 --> 00:24:41,645 They've downloaded all the security cameras. 436 00:24:41,722 --> 00:24:44,732 They've downloaded his cell phones, they've downloaded the computers. 437 00:24:44,808 --> 00:24:47,526 I mean, they've done everything that they could possibly do 438 00:24:47,528 --> 00:24:49,737 to try to find some evidence. 439 00:24:50,615 --> 00:24:52,198 But they haven't found anything. 440 00:24:58,414 --> 00:25:00,915 So about seven months after Dee disappeared, 441 00:25:00,917 --> 00:25:03,876 her family, getting very frustrated with how the investigation's 442 00:25:03,878 --> 00:25:06,670 being handled with the Lenawee County sheriff's office. 443 00:25:06,747 --> 00:25:10,216 That's when they decided to essentially take things into their own hands 444 00:25:10,218 --> 00:25:12,468 and they formed a vigil for Dee 445 00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:15,054 at her brother's property, Gregg Hardy. 446 00:25:15,130 --> 00:25:18,224 And they were hoping that it would help spread the word about her disappearance 447 00:25:18,226 --> 00:25:22,811 and really encourage people who might know something, to come forward. 448 00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:25,648 [Gregg] I'd like to start off by saying thank you all very, very much. 449 00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:30,486 It's been truly amazing how many people participated in trying to find Dee. 450 00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:33,489 [Gregg] It was this past fal when the vigil was organized 451 00:25:33,533 --> 00:25:37,117 People were at the point where they just wanted to do something. 452 00:25:37,194 --> 00:25:39,203 Very frustrated by nothing happening. 453 00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:43,374 [Rikkell] Anything that we can possibly do 454 00:25:43,376 --> 00:25:45,167 to keep making people aware, 455 00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:46,627 so that they can share. 456 00:25:46,704 --> 00:25:50,673 And I think Dale has done nothing 457 00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:53,926 to spread awareness that she's been missing. 458 00:25:54,554 --> 00:25:55,702 We've had vigils 459 00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:57,263 and he has not come to any of them. 460 00:25:57,339 --> 00:26:00,391 He's had yard signs... 461 00:26:01,185 --> 00:26:02,226 put in his yard. 462 00:26:03,062 --> 00:26:05,312 He's taken them down immediately. 463 00:26:05,389 --> 00:26:08,941 He has not spoke to any of the press. 464 00:26:09,735 --> 00:26:13,362 Dale not only not participated by attending a vigil, 465 00:26:13,364 --> 00:26:16,407 he did not ever participate in helping organize this one 466 00:26:16,483 --> 00:26:18,659 or organizing any kind of event 467 00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:21,787 that a normal husband would do 468 00:26:21,864 --> 00:26:24,039 to try to help find his missing wife. 469 00:26:25,084 --> 00:26:26,733 So... 470 00:26:26,735 --> 00:26:29,628 his demeanor was totally suspicious about everything 471 00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:35,551 I asked him if he had attended any of the vigils or any of that, 472 00:26:35,595 --> 00:26:38,554 and A, he had never been invited by any of her family. 473 00:26:38,556 --> 00:26:42,182 And second of all, we're in a small town. 474 00:26:42,217 --> 00:26:44,518 All the fingers are pointed at him. 475 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,187 Dale wants to believe that she's still alive. 476 00:26:47,189 --> 00:26:49,815 And is constantly telling Angelina, 477 00:26:49,817 --> 00:26:52,192 "Mommy's on a break and she'll come back." 478 00:26:52,269 --> 00:26:54,528 I think that he wants to 479 00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:57,615 display that sense of confidence to his daughter. 480 00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:05,164 [McKenzie] Nearly a year after Dee went missing, 481 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,958 her family reached out to a private investigator for help, 482 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,668 Attorney Billy Little. 483 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:12,004 And what makes him such a key part of this 484 00:27:12,006 --> 00:27:16,175 is that he has extensive experience when it comes to murder investigations. 485 00:27:16,251 --> 00:27:19,261 Not only with his private practice, but also in the military. 486 00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,222 [Gregg] We were at somewhat of a standstill 487 00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:24,266 actually, with the investigation. 488 00:27:24,268 --> 00:27:27,436 The authorities weren't getting anywhere with the process. 489 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,938 Or they weren't getting there with any speed. 490 00:27:29,982 --> 00:27:31,315 The lack of transparency, 491 00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:33,542 the lack of accountability 492 00:27:33,544 --> 00:27:38,322 to the family, in my opinion has been very frustrating to say the least. 493 00:27:38,399 --> 00:27:40,574 My wife had actually seen a television program, 494 00:27:40,651 --> 00:27:43,952 where Billy Little helped an investigation. 495 00:27:43,996 --> 00:27:47,915 It was impressionable enough on me, I asked my wife if she could find this guy. 496 00:27:47,917 --> 00:27:49,708 And I called him. 497 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,296 [Amy] I remember the first time that I met Billy Little 498 00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:57,549 I got in my car and I cried after I talked to him 499 00:27:57,626 --> 00:27:59,468 because I was happy. 500 00:27:59,512 --> 00:28:00,969 They were tears of joy 501 00:28:00,971 --> 00:28:04,098 and tears of, we're gonna get help. 502 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:05,891 This is the man that's gonna help us. 503 00:28:07,061 --> 00:28:09,228 This is the man that's gonna get us answers. 504 00:28:11,107 --> 00:28:14,108 He is very determined. 505 00:28:14,184 --> 00:28:17,027 He said, just very matter-of-factly, 506 00:28:17,029 --> 00:28:19,196 very confidently said, "I don't lose. 507 00:28:19,782 --> 00:28:21,590 I've got him." 508 00:28:26,038 --> 00:28:29,248 [narrator] Dee Ann Warner wa last seen April 25th, 2021. 509 00:28:29,667 --> 00:28:31,616 [narrator reading] 510 00:28:46,851 --> 00:28:49,852 [Billy] My name is Billy Little, I'm an investigative attorne 511 00:28:49,854 --> 00:28:54,690 I've been invited by the family to help find out what happened to Dee Warner 512 00:28:54,692 --> 00:28:55,941 When I come on a case, 513 00:28:55,943 --> 00:28:58,819 it is a firehose of information. 514 00:28:58,896 --> 00:29:03,490 Hundreds of hours of interviews that I've recorded. 515 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:07,578 And thousands of pages of documents, and I have to sift through that. 516 00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:10,706 And then you start to find things 517 00:29:10,708 --> 00:29:13,083 and the pieces start to come together. 518 00:29:13,085 --> 00:29:15,127 You start to think, "okay, here we go. 519 00:29:15,204 --> 00:29:16,995 Now we got something." 520 00:29:19,049 --> 00:29:22,301 [Troy] Like any other county, any other police agency, 521 00:29:22,336 --> 00:29:24,011 we have other things that we're investigating. 522 00:29:24,013 --> 00:29:26,221 It's a tough thing because you... 523 00:29:26,891 --> 00:29:28,432 you wanna be there for the family. 524 00:29:28,434 --> 00:29:30,476 You want to be there for Dee 525 00:29:30,511 --> 00:29:32,186 And we want to find the trut 526 00:29:32,262 --> 00:29:36,774 And if a private investigato helps to get to the truth, 527 00:29:36,850 --> 00:29:39,276 then we welcome that because it's all for the family. 528 00:29:39,278 --> 00:29:41,427 It really is. 529 00:29:43,824 --> 00:29:47,534 [Billy] Investigating a missing person is a process of elimination 530 00:29:47,536 --> 00:29:49,745 Dale starting throwing us stories about, 531 00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:52,831 well, she had this wealthy friend who had a private jet, 532 00:29:52,908 --> 00:29:54,708 that she went to Mexico. 533 00:29:55,252 --> 00:29:56,502 That she went to Jamaica. 534 00:29:56,837 --> 00:29:58,945 I started looking at that. 535 00:29:58,947 --> 00:30:02,299 Looking for this friend, if she did go to Mexico, how did she do it? 536 00:30:03,469 --> 00:30:06,178 Did she withdraw money out of the bank before she went 537 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:09,139 Were there any financial transactions after she left? 538 00:30:09,517 --> 00:30:11,266 Any credit card usage? 539 00:30:11,268 --> 00:30:13,727 Any phones, any crossing of borders? 540 00:30:14,522 --> 00:30:16,688 [Larry] You know, she loved to travel, so... 541 00:30:16,690 --> 00:30:20,317 Dale made the suggestion that maybe she's in Mexico or Jamaica. 542 00:30:20,394 --> 00:30:23,445 Sometimes people wanna get away and they wanna start a new life. 543 00:30:23,447 --> 00:30:24,738 Um... 544 00:30:25,658 --> 00:30:27,157 we just don't know. 545 00:30:28,369 --> 00:30:31,370 [Amy] For her to go to Mexic 546 00:30:31,372 --> 00:30:33,497 go to Jamaica... No. 547 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:35,690 You have to have money. 548 00:30:35,692 --> 00:30:38,585 This is not something that you just pick up and like, 549 00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:40,754 take off and do, you have to have a plan. 550 00:30:40,831 --> 00:30:42,548 Don't get me wrong, she's a smart woman. 551 00:30:42,550 --> 00:30:44,925 But it would take a very, very smart person 552 00:30:44,927 --> 00:30:47,803 just to literally drop off the face of the Earth 553 00:30:47,805 --> 00:30:49,930 with no communication. 554 00:30:51,392 --> 00:30:54,268 [Billy] But there's no evidence, there's no cars missing, 555 00:30:54,270 --> 00:30:56,186 there's no luggage missing. 556 00:30:56,263 --> 00:30:58,939 One by one, things are not adding up. 557 00:31:03,487 --> 00:31:05,195 [McKenzie] So, early in our reporting we learned that 558 00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:07,281 Dee and Dale Warner, they were well off. 559 00:31:07,283 --> 00:31:09,241 They both had successful businesses, 560 00:31:09,243 --> 00:31:10,284 they were doing well. 561 00:31:10,286 --> 00:31:12,870 Dee owned that trucking company. 562 00:31:12,905 --> 00:31:14,663 Dale had the agriculture business. 563 00:31:14,665 --> 00:31:16,999 It seemed important to look into their finances 564 00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:21,086 to see if that maybe played a role in Dee's disappearance. 565 00:31:21,121 --> 00:31:23,630 [Billy] Dee ran this very profitable trucking company 566 00:31:23,632 --> 00:31:27,301 When she went missing, the assets began being bled off. 567 00:31:27,303 --> 00:31:28,960 Stolen. 568 00:31:29,037 --> 00:31:31,805 Over a million dollars has been taken from that business. 569 00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:34,099 Dale started a new business 570 00:31:34,176 --> 00:31:37,269 called Ddw Transportation. 571 00:31:37,271 --> 00:31:40,105 And just transferred all the assets over there. 572 00:31:41,609 --> 00:31:44,318 How can you possibly transfer assets... 573 00:31:45,487 --> 00:31:46,486 when you don't own them? 574 00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:48,196 Which is what Dale is doing. 575 00:31:48,866 --> 00:31:50,532 Dale produced this power of attorney 576 00:31:50,534 --> 00:31:54,536 that was signed back in 2014, allegedly. 577 00:31:55,539 --> 00:32:00,042 And the document was clearl not Dee's signature. 578 00:32:00,085 --> 00:32:03,003 Any layperson could've looked at it and seen that. 579 00:32:03,005 --> 00:32:06,423 But the document was sent to a qualified 580 00:32:06,425 --> 00:32:11,345 handwriting analysis examine that came up with an expert opinion, 581 00:32:11,347 --> 00:32:15,807 that that absolutely was not her signature on a power of attorney. 582 00:32:18,354 --> 00:32:21,605 Why would a person produce a forged power of attorney? 583 00:32:21,607 --> 00:32:24,358 Especially when you say she's coming back. 584 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,334 If she is coming back, 585 00:32:26,336 --> 00:32:29,321 she's sure as heck is gonna know that that's a forged power of attorney. 586 00:32:31,492 --> 00:32:35,661 But there were certainly questions about Dale's involvement in Dee's business. 587 00:32:35,737 --> 00:32:38,914 And there were other troubling factors about their relationship 588 00:32:38,916 --> 00:32:41,107 that were starting to come to light. 589 00:32:41,185 --> 00:32:44,836 [Billy] There are a lot of things about Dale's behavior that are bizarre. 590 00:32:44,838 --> 00:32:47,714 He had the need to know everything about her. 591 00:32:47,716 --> 00:32:51,093 He had the need to control her. 592 00:32:51,095 --> 00:32:53,929 To make her do what he wanted her to do. 593 00:32:55,516 --> 00:32:58,850 In order to do that, he's gotta monitor what she's saying, 594 00:32:58,852 --> 00:33:00,293 what she's doing. 595 00:33:01,063 --> 00:33:04,481 So part of that was, he would hide his iPad 596 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:09,194 in the office in the slots where files would be kept on a desk. 597 00:33:10,614 --> 00:33:13,824 She would have conversations in her office 598 00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:15,475 and she would say, 599 00:33:19,873 --> 00:33:23,041 and she would point to the recording device 600 00:33:23,043 --> 00:33:24,584 and then whisper to that person, 601 00:33:24,586 --> 00:33:26,561 "We're being recorded." 602 00:33:28,048 --> 00:33:30,757 [Amy] Dee had often told me that she was being recorded. 603 00:33:30,759 --> 00:33:34,428 That she would find iPads in odd places 604 00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:37,222 in the office and that the red light was on, 605 00:33:37,224 --> 00:33:39,433 which means, you know, that it's being recorded. 606 00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:42,168 It's eerily odd. 607 00:33:44,606 --> 00:33:47,733 There's been several times where we would be out to eat. 608 00:33:49,069 --> 00:33:51,319 And all of a sudden, Dale would show up. 609 00:33:51,363 --> 00:33:54,072 And sit in a booth right by us, 610 00:33:54,149 --> 00:33:55,949 so there was no privacy. 611 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:57,984 Just very odd. 612 00:33:57,986 --> 00:34:03,165 To say that it's coincidental would be an understatement. 613 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,128 [Rikkell] Dale was showing up places that she was at. 614 00:34:09,048 --> 00:34:10,797 Dinner parties. 615 00:34:11,425 --> 00:34:13,800 And being... 616 00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:16,928 possessive to her. 617 00:34:20,851 --> 00:34:23,852 In July of 2020... 618 00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:27,773 my mom mentioned finding something in her car. 619 00:34:27,849 --> 00:34:30,067 She thought it was very strange. 620 00:34:30,069 --> 00:34:34,613 Dustin, my spouse, said, "go get it. Show me." 621 00:34:34,615 --> 00:34:37,365 So she went out to her car and brought it in. 622 00:34:37,367 --> 00:34:38,450 She just... 623 00:34:39,661 --> 00:34:40,535 laid it on the counter 624 00:34:40,537 --> 00:34:41,953 and he looked it up, 625 00:34:42,030 --> 00:34:44,748 and it was a tracking device 626 00:34:48,921 --> 00:34:50,962 My mom was going to confront him. 627 00:34:51,423 --> 00:34:52,497 And when she did, 628 00:34:52,499 --> 00:34:54,165 he said he didn't know what it was. 629 00:34:57,096 --> 00:34:59,888 [Larry] The idea that there was a tracker on Dee's car, 630 00:34:59,890 --> 00:35:02,182 I just wanna address that real quickly. 631 00:35:02,184 --> 00:35:05,185 That tracker was only for security purposes. 632 00:35:05,187 --> 00:35:08,814 They had sort of suggested that Dale was somehow following her. 633 00:35:09,149 --> 00:35:10,941 None of that's true. 634 00:35:10,943 --> 00:35:14,236 That tracker was only for the purposes of if the car was stolen. 635 00:35:14,238 --> 00:35:16,613 So in a small town, you never know. 636 00:35:16,690 --> 00:35:21,660 [Billy] I don't find that th particular county is a hotbed for stolen cars 637 00:35:21,662 --> 00:35:25,664 And the only tracking device was put on Dee's car. 638 00:35:25,666 --> 00:35:27,440 Not the other cars. 639 00:35:27,442 --> 00:35:30,001 There are millions of dollar worth of equipment up there 640 00:35:30,003 --> 00:35:31,711 that don't have this tracking device. 641 00:35:31,788 --> 00:35:35,340 And, if it was truly to find a stolen vehicle, 642 00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:37,217 he would have no reason to hide that from her. 643 00:35:37,970 --> 00:35:39,928 This is an element of contro 644 00:35:39,972 --> 00:35:42,013 An element of abuse, an element of stalking. 645 00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:44,141 He's monitoring her phone. 646 00:35:44,143 --> 00:35:47,811 He's recording her surreptitiously. 647 00:35:47,813 --> 00:35:51,148 He is very concerned about everything that she's doing. 648 00:35:51,150 --> 00:35:53,358 Until she goes missing. 649 00:35:53,435 --> 00:35:57,529 All of a sudden, not concerned about where she is, not trying to find her. 650 00:35:58,907 --> 00:36:00,949 In March of 2022, 651 00:36:01,743 --> 00:36:04,786 a witness gave us information. 652 00:36:04,830 --> 00:36:07,789 Who that witness is, I can't reveal at this point. 653 00:36:07,824 --> 00:36:12,878 I believe that I can prove Dale's alibi is a lie. 654 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,006 Dale's statement that they were asleep and he left at 6:00 AM, 655 00:36:16,041 --> 00:36:18,425 I know, without any doubt, that is false. 656 00:36:18,427 --> 00:36:21,386 On the night of April 24th, 657 00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:23,597 I know where he was, I know what he was doing. 658 00:36:23,599 --> 00:36:26,933 Dale was absolutely not at home sleeping. 659 00:36:37,112 --> 00:36:41,364 [Billy] I received informati on the Sunday when Dee disappeared, 660 00:36:41,441 --> 00:36:44,117 that between 3:00 and 4:30 AM that morning, 661 00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:45,559 Dale left his home. 662 00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:50,874 Dale was at his father's farm at 3:55 AM. 663 00:36:50,876 --> 00:36:54,419 He was seen by a witness going into the office, 664 00:36:54,421 --> 00:36:58,048 getting the keys for the chemical and equipment barn. 665 00:36:58,926 --> 00:37:00,675 When he was seen by witnesse 666 00:37:00,677 --> 00:37:02,719 he was in a hurry, he didn't address anybody. 667 00:37:02,721 --> 00:37:05,222 He didn't look at anybody. 668 00:37:05,224 --> 00:37:08,391 He was completely different than he had behaved in prio times when they had seen him 669 00:37:08,393 --> 00:37:10,143 In my opinion, 670 00:37:10,145 --> 00:37:11,603 Dale went to his father's place 671 00:37:11,605 --> 00:37:14,439 to try to dispose of Dee's body. 672 00:37:16,944 --> 00:37:18,610 [Larry] You know, the night that she went missing, 673 00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:21,905 Dale was wearing his Apple watch 674 00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:24,616 and he was connected to his Apple phone. 675 00:37:24,618 --> 00:37:27,827 And there was not a pulse that was raised. 676 00:37:29,122 --> 00:37:32,624 His disposition was of a normal person sleeping. 677 00:37:34,211 --> 00:37:36,544 Got up to go to work at 6:30 in the morning, 678 00:37:36,546 --> 00:37:39,464 saw his wife laying on the couch and went to work. 679 00:37:41,343 --> 00:37:45,512 Neither Dale nor his attorney have shared the Apple watch data with us. 680 00:37:45,514 --> 00:37:46,888 And we have requested that 681 00:37:46,890 --> 00:37:48,823 and we would be happy to look at it, 682 00:37:48,825 --> 00:37:51,768 and happy to have some independent experts look at it. 683 00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:56,106 But I turned over a great deal of information to the police. 684 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:01,361 The Lenawee County sheriff's office has named Dee Anne Warner's husband 685 00:38:01,438 --> 00:38:03,763 a person of interest in her disappearance. 686 00:38:03,765 --> 00:38:06,741 [male reporter] Her family pointing the finger at Warner's husband, Dale Warne 687 00:38:06,743 --> 00:38:08,952 in connection to her disappearance. 688 00:38:09,029 --> 00:38:12,539 However, Lenawee County sheriff's office has not named a suspect in the case, 689 00:38:12,615 --> 00:38:15,959 instead, calling Dale Warne a person of interest. 690 00:38:18,005 --> 00:38:20,297 [Troy] The only difference between a person of interes 691 00:38:20,373 --> 00:38:23,341 and a suspect is, a suspect you have a crime 692 00:38:23,376 --> 00:38:25,302 and it's been labeled a crim 693 00:38:25,378 --> 00:38:27,679 In this situation, we have a missing person. 694 00:38:27,681 --> 00:38:30,390 Although, the longer that missing person case goes, 695 00:38:30,467 --> 00:38:35,103 we'll see what happens as far as developing into something else. 696 00:38:36,982 --> 00:38:39,006 [Gregg] For me, personally, 697 00:38:39,008 --> 00:38:42,610 it's hard to imagine why that person wouldn't be considered a suspect. 698 00:38:43,864 --> 00:38:48,283 It definitely put a divide in the county on who was on whose side. 699 00:38:48,285 --> 00:38:51,745 So many people went straight to thinking that 700 00:38:51,821 --> 00:38:54,956 Dale may have been responsib for Dee's disappearance. 701 00:38:56,126 --> 00:38:58,242 But at this point, 702 00:38:58,244 --> 00:39:00,211 sheriff's office really hasn't commented much about where they stand 703 00:39:00,213 --> 00:39:01,896 on their investigation. 704 00:39:01,898 --> 00:39:04,424 And we could see the frustration building with the family. 705 00:39:08,263 --> 00:39:11,097 But Dale and his attorney still maintain his innocence 706 00:39:11,174 --> 00:39:13,975 They say that he has cooperated with authorities. 707 00:39:13,977 --> 00:39:16,936 And they still say that Dee left on her own accord. 708 00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:19,939 [Larry] Dale really, truly believes 709 00:39:19,941 --> 00:39:23,943 that over the course of a period of years, she planned her exit. 710 00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:27,614 I think that she set herself up, 711 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,450 when he went to work, 712 00:39:30,452 --> 00:39:32,827 to avoid the security cameras and she left. 713 00:39:34,289 --> 00:39:35,613 She knew where she was going 714 00:39:35,690 --> 00:39:38,625 and she knew she wanted to start fresh. 715 00:39:38,627 --> 00:39:41,795 And that's the reason why you haven't found any evidence whatsoever 716 00:39:41,797 --> 00:39:43,296 of her demise. 717 00:39:44,216 --> 00:39:45,256 We hope she's okay. 718 00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:46,774 But at this point, 719 00:39:46,776 --> 00:39:49,344 there's no evidence to suggest he did anything 720 00:39:49,379 --> 00:39:52,806 or anybody close to him did anything to assist in her disappearance. 721 00:39:57,687 --> 00:39:59,354 The best case scenario, 722 00:39:59,356 --> 00:40:03,775 I would hope that she is somewhere like Fiji, 723 00:40:03,777 --> 00:40:05,902 sitting on the beach, having a drink, 724 00:40:06,405 --> 00:40:08,571 living life to the fullest. 725 00:40:08,573 --> 00:40:11,950 I would love to just be mad at her, 726 00:40:11,952 --> 00:40:13,743 instead of mourn her. 727 00:40:14,788 --> 00:40:18,039 But sadly, she is also the type of person 728 00:40:18,041 --> 00:40:19,641 and the type of mother 729 00:40:19,643 --> 00:40:22,127 that could never put people through this amount of hurt 730 00:40:22,162 --> 00:40:23,828 and this amount of pain. 731 00:40:23,905 --> 00:40:27,424 "The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight..." 732 00:40:28,802 --> 00:40:31,136 [Amy] This is raw and it's real. 733 00:40:31,596 --> 00:40:33,513 And it's true. 734 00:40:33,515 --> 00:40:35,849 I constantly wonder what happened 735 00:40:35,851 --> 00:40:37,308 and where she's at. 736 00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:43,481 [Troy] I can say that the sheriff's office, 737 00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:46,192 state police and the FBI, we will continue to work on this 738 00:40:46,194 --> 00:40:48,445 until we can get closure. 739 00:40:49,865 --> 00:40:52,699 We're not gonna give up until we have the truth. 740 00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:54,784 [Gregg] The reality is this 741 00:40:54,786 --> 00:40:57,370 There was only one person at the house 742 00:40:57,372 --> 00:40:59,330 on the evening that my sister disappeared. 743 00:41:00,292 --> 00:41:02,709 She didn't just vaporize. 744 00:41:02,711 --> 00:41:05,003 And that one person knows where she's at now. 745 00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:09,466 Everybody who's involved 746 00:41:09,542 --> 00:41:11,759 in my sister's death needs to pay the price. 747 00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:14,512 The final goal of here would be to see someone in prison. 748 00:41:15,807 --> 00:41:18,391 [Rikkell] I one hundred percent think that 749 00:41:18,393 --> 00:41:21,102 Dale is responsible for what happened to my mom. 750 00:41:21,104 --> 00:41:25,523 So we're ready for justice for my mom. 751 00:41:25,525 --> 00:41:27,442 There will be closure for the family. 752 00:41:27,444 --> 00:41:28,801 I guarantee it. 753 00:41:28,878 --> 00:41:31,571 I will not be gone until there's closure. 754 00:41:31,573 --> 00:41:34,532 This investigation is gettin bigger, not smaller. 755 00:41:34,609 --> 00:41:36,159 I'm not gonna leave until it's done. 756 00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:38,036 And the longer this goes on, 757 00:41:38,038 --> 00:41:40,020 the worse it gets for Dale. 758 00:41:40,056 --> 00:41:44,209 I now know what happened, and I know that justice is coming. 759 00:41:44,211 --> 00:41:48,880 I have zero doubt in my mind that there will be resolution for this family.