[narrator] Dee Ann Warner disappeared on April 25, 202
[Rikkell] Usually, every Saturday and Sunday,
we would go over to my mom's house and have breakfast.
She wasn't there.
That was a huge red flag to me.
[narrator] Her family is desperate for answers.
Many things were bizarre.
She took her purse. She had her phone. She had her makeup bag.
There was no evidence of any kind of a note.
For her to go to Mexico, go to Jamaica... No.
[Rikkell] She got in a really bad fight with her husband.
She was ready to end the marriage.
She was ready to sell the businesses.
[narrator] This episode of Disappeared
retraces Dee Ann's last known steps.
[Amy] She wouldn't leave us wondering what happened.
She wouldn't do this to her kids.
She wouldn't do this to her grandkids.
[Rikkell] Watching the FBI, the police dig, was a mix of emotions.
I want my mom to be alive,
but I know that my mom would never leave us.
[Billy] There will be closure for the family. I guarantee it.
I will not be gone until there's closure.
[narrator] The more people who know Dee Ann's story,
the greater the chance of bringing her home.
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Have you seen Dee Ann Warner
[Rikkell] My name is Rikkell Bock
and I am Dee's youngest adult daughter.
It was a Saturday and I went over to her house
and that was the last time I got to see her.
My mom had a heart of gold and would do anything for anybody.
"The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight,
and hunkered them down in their nest for the night."
If you needed her, she would be there.
But you also didn't wanna get on her bad side
and you didn't wanna lie to her
'cause she took care of business.
[Amy] My name is Amy Alexand
and I have known Dee for the last 12 years.
Dee was the life of the part
She radiated light. She radiated life.
She texted everybody and had to know everything about everyone
because she genuinely cared for people.
She always went above and beyond for people.
Very, very giving woman.
Her kids and her grandkids meant everything to her.
I have an older sister and then two older brothers from my dad,
and then Angelina, half-sister, from my mom and her second husband Dale
My sister and Mr. Warner took up when they were both married.
It raised a lot of eyebrows
particularly because you wouldn't match them.
I mean, she had a dynamic personality
that was outgoing and vivacious.
He had more of an introvert personality.
So they were, dynamically, polar opposites,
not only in their personalities
but also in how they presented themselves.
He had to be far from a GQ guide, for sur
She was more high-maintenanc well-taken-care-of woman.
In fact, I don't ever remember seeing her out of the house without her makeup on.
And he was the total opposit
I mean, I never seen the guy withou a pair of blue jeans on,
a work shirt and a pair of work boots.
Their way of meshing was business.
And I think that's what drove them together.
They had the same dreams, the same goals,
and they could accomplish that together.
You know, they started with one busine and then grew to five.
[McKenzie] My name is McKenzie Kuehnlein.
I'm an anchor and reporter with WTVG 13abc.
So, I cover a lot of Lenawee County. That's a bit of my beat.
I'm also from the area.
Lenawee County is a very rural area
and Dee and Dale Warner's family
is definitely a dynasty in the community,
specifically when it comes to the farming side of things.
They both have farming backgrounds that span generations.
Dee's family and her brother Gregg Hardy
has a mega dairy farm just down the road.
And Dale also started his business War-AG
and then Dee started what was a trucking business
so they were very well known
But family and friends will tell you that this was no perfect marriage.
They had a rocky relationship.
A lot of times, they had arguments that were based on their business.
[Amy] There were some very poor business decision that were made
and she always felt like she had to fix everything.
She would often talk to me about divorcing Dale or leaving Dale.
That conversation happened a lot
where she was going to leave she was gonna divorce him, she was done.
When I was young, we would leave
and we would go stay at a hotel.
We'd stay at my uncle's for a night or two and then we'd go back.
And everything was fine until the next fight and we'd leave.
My house is actually right behind my mom's farm.
So, usually, every Sunday
we would go over to her house in the morning and have breakfast.
So it was just a normal Sunday.
I went over there with my family.
She wasn't there.
We walked all around the house.
I couldn't find my little sister or Dal
so I assumed she was maybe with them.
But she wasn't responding to my text messages, so I called her...
[phone rings]
...and her phone went straight to voicemail, which doesn't happen ever.
She never shuts her phone of
I knew that if she wasn't going to be there she would have told me,
so that was a huge red flag to me.
Dale ended up calling me a couple hours later
and asking me if I had heard from her,
and said, "Well, she's mad at me again,"
and she was leaving him for good.
I was too shocked at the situation
to even comprehend what he was really saying.
I just stayed quiet.
I just had a really strange feeling.
On Sunday evening I confronted Mr. Warner face-to-face
and said, "Dale," and this is a quote,
"What the hell went on here? What the hell happened?"
He explained to me that they'd had a horrible fight the night before.
She had been very upset.
And he had given her a back massage on the living room floor
and she fell asleep.
He picked her up and put her on the couch about 10:30-or-so
and he went to bed.
And when he got up at 6:30 in the morning to go out to work on the far
she was snoring on the couch.
He said, you know, that she took off.
He reaches in his left-hand pocket
and pulled out her wedding ring in his left hand
and bounced it up and down like a golf ball,
and he said, "She left this on my desk."
Many things were bizarre.
There was no evidence of any kind of a note or anything like that.
Her car was in the garage.
I said, "Well, Dale, she didn't walk
She never walked anywhere. She always drove her car.
"How do you think she left?"
And he said, "Well, somebody must have picked her up."
She took her purse. She had her phone.
She had her makeup bag and her curling iron.
I called my brother and had him look at the cameras.
He came to the office because, at the time, he worked there,
and he looked through all of the cameras,
so on the exterior of the house,
the inside of the office, all around the buildings,
just to see who was there, at what times and what they were doing.
And there was nothing with her.
You couldn't find her at all
By five or six o'clock that night
my siblings all decided that it would be a good idea to contact the police,
so we made our missing person's report.
[Troy] My name is Troy Bevie I'm the sheriff of Lenawee County
investigating the disappearance of Dee Warner
So, our deputy responded out to the location
to take a missing person report.
The deputy did talk to Dale initially
and the information that Dale gave to the deputy was that she just took off.
And our deputy had some concerns
and that's why, the next day, the detective was following up on it.
What's unusual here,
things were not taken that normally were, car or other personal items.
That really spawned us to start doing more investigation around the home.
[Amy] I'm 47 years old. I've never known anybody to disappear.
Never even knew somebody that knew somebody that disappeared.
In fact, we leave our keys in our vehicles.
We hardly lock our house.
[McKenzie] So, news of Dee's disappearance consumed the county.
This type of thing just doesn't happen.
This was the biggest news to break in this area in years.
And so, a lot of people had question
about what happened to Dee, where she was,
and they were all wanting answers as well.
[Rikkell] We reported her missing on a Sunday.
They came on a Tuesday to do a big search at the farm
with the helicopters, the drones, the dogs.
Dale initially gave consent for them to search the farm and the house,
but within two hours he revoked consent
and told them to leave and come back with a warrant
'cause he needed to go back to work.
I just remember listening to him tell me why he did that
and all I keep thinking in my head is, "Your wife is missing."
We have a lot of farmers in Lenawee County.
And there's a lot of farmers that, when it's time to farm, it's time to farm,
even if someone is missing, whether that's right or wrong.
But we continued on with our investigation.
By the time they got their warrant approved and signed by a judge
and got themselves gathered together,
it was dark when they got back on that evening.
And I know that for sure because I was actually
farming in a field where I could watch them right next door.
It was certainly inhibited by darkness
and would not be anywhere near as good a search
as they would've done in the daylight
when they were there to start with.
It's just frustrating and it's horribly painful for the family.
[Rikkell] So, we just were waiting.
And we kept waiting for something.
There has to be something there
that proves whatever happened.
It felt like I got punched in the gut because it was just nothing
And I just was very confused at why Dale just didn't seem concerned.
[Gregg] At this point, I actually told Dale,
"You're the husband. You're the spouse. All eyes are gonna be on you."
[Amy] So, that Saturday she had texted
that there was a big fight and that she was very upset with Dale.
Dee was definitely the type that if something upset her
she had no problem telling anybody.
She was going to send Angelina somewhere
and I said, "Well, let her come over and play with her cousin."
So, she said, "Okay."
And I got there at 7:42
and that was the last that I ever...
Her phone was off after that.
[Rikkell] That was the day she got in a really bad figh with Dale, her husband.
She was ready to end the marriage.
She was ready to sell the businesses.
She was ready to leave.
That was the last time I got to see her.
[McKenzie] So, from the very beginning,
Dale maintained that Dee left on her own accord,
possibly to Mexico, Jamaica.
Now, the sheriff's office says that this is a possibility,
but when we talked to the family,
they said this is no way that Dee would just up and leave,
especially with a young chil
You start process of elimination
and the first one to get eliminated
was, actually, someone picking her up.
I contacted all of her friends.
All of them were extremely surprised
about what I was telling them about Dee's disappearance.
We had no one that could've, quote, unquot "Picked up Dee,"
given her a ride.
[Troy] So, as we respond to a missing person report,
you let the facts send you in the direction that you need to go in.
So, as you're getting that information,
you wanna make sure that you're asking things like,
"Did they take a particular credit card?"
So that you can look at bank accounts.
[Amy] There's no bank activity.
You can't go MIA and not have availability to funds, to money.
My sister, respectfully, she was high-maintenance, okay?
So her lifestyle, wasn't gonna,
you know, live in the woods in some tent.
So, she would've had to have money
and she would've had to have a lot of it.
The probability of her leaving him a wedding ring that was sizeable
is flat zero.
That would've been an easy thing to generate cash by.
We had many concerns when she went missing.
Dee wasn't a person who would go hide and not say anything.
She was a communicator.
The information that we really had from the family, and it made sense,
was she would never not get in touch with them.
You know, it was clear afte the facts started to come ou
that finding the truth about what happened to Dee
would be a little more difficult than we had initially thought.
It wasn't unusual that she might have wanted to get away
because of a fight with her husband,
but it was the circumstances around how she left.
No car, no daughter,
no contact, no nothing.
And so, I was concerned about
how she may have harmed herself.
We had a community search
that took place on the Saturday after she went missing.
There were 40 or 50 people that spent hours walking the property
looking for a body because of a potential suicide.
Early in the spring, there was no foliage or anything like that,
so everything was pretty visible at that time.
We walked the property, looked all over
and couldn't find any evidence whatsoever.
And then in addition to tha and during that week,
I had been speaking to experts in criminal psychology
and in psychology and psychiatry,
talking about, how does a woman commit suicide?
And it became very obvious that that wasn't a possibility.
She did not have the capability to leave Angelina,
or she does not have the capability
to put anybody else through this hurt.
There's no way possible that she would hurt any of us this bad.
She didn't have it in her.
She wouldn't leave us... wondering what happened.
She wouldn't do this to her kids.
She wouldn't do this to her grandkids.
"The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight..."
[Gregg] So, we instantly began investigating
that toxic relationship between my sister and Mr. Warner.
So, that Saturday, when I was there picking up Angelina,
Dale pulled in.
And when she saw him she acted afraid,
like she wanted to run from the door.
I've seen Dee upset many times,
but this was on a whole different level of being upset.
She never, ever expressed anything to me about being scared of him
until the day before she went missing.
By the end of our conversation,
she kind of randomly just said,
"I watch Dateline, like, every night
and he could do something like that to me."
[Amy] I definitely have a lot of regret,
not staying or not taking her with me
or making sure she left the house.
[Gregg] For me, the most bizarre
was Dale's total lack of concern, his total lack of emotion...
his total demeanor about,
"I just wanna get my life normal and go on,"
was, in my opinion, more impactful than sending the search party away.
[Troy] When the investigation started,
the lead detective pretty much spelled it out for Dale.
"You're the husband. You're the last person that saw her.
You are gonna be the person that everybody focusses on, including us."
[Larry] My name's Larry Leib
I'm an attorney here in Michigan.
Maybe two or three days after Dee went missing,
I got a call from Dale and I agreed to represent hi
It is a bizarre situation.
I don't even wanna call it a case.
I think it's really a situation.
There's been no evidence whatsoever
that connects him or anybody close to him to her disappearance.
[McKenzie] Early on, Dee's family, they were suspicious of Dale
But those that support Dale say that there could have be other theories.
So, as part of our reporting,
we did find that Dee had an argument with an employee
just a few days before her disappearance.
[Larry] I understand that Dee was a difficult person to work with
and somebody specific didn't care for her.
[Amy] You're going to ruffle some feathers
and you're gonna step on some toes when you're in business.
You can't possibly please everybody.
[Rikkell] She got in a really bad fight with a couple employees
and she was really, really upset.
[McKenzie] So, we were shown a text messag
that Dee received just a few days before her disappearance.
That text was sent by someone who was close with the employee
that Dee got into that argument with
The text message was pretty nasty.
It was rude and insulting, called her a mess,
even alleging that she was taking anti-anxiety medication.
So this text raised a lot of red flags
and a lot of people were wondering,
"Did this play a role in Dee's disappearance?"
The Lenawee County sheriff's office
has not made any comment about these text messages,
so it definitely has a lot more questions than answers
when it comes to those text messages.
Dee's family thinks that she handled the business wel
so the fact that she would have any sort of violence within the workplace
is something that her family definitely does not think would happen.
I never really had any concern for her safety with the employees.
I felt like she had a pretty strong bond with most of them.
Most of her employees have worked for her for a long time.
So, in August of '21 Dale called my spouse Dustin.
He had something that he thought we needed to see
I, of course, was, like, ready for something.
So we went over there
and he hands me this three-page letter in my mom's handwriting.
Dale said that he found it about a week after she disappeared
and he'd just gave it to the sheriff's department
Why are you just now handing that over?
On this letter, it talked about how much my mom loved him
and how she worked so hard for him to be happy,
and she just couldn't make him happy.
It didn't talk about that she was leaving.
And then it kind of abruptly ended.
With no signature.
Nothing.
I took pictures of this letter.
And I sent it to my siblings.
And my brother said,
"I know that this letter isn't recent.
She wrote this letter a couple of years ago."
It was very strange.
And that was when I realized...
he's manipulating me to think that
she took off on us.
And I know that's not true.
[McKenzie] So, in October 2021,
I was called out on breaking news that
FBI agents were at the property of Dale and Dee Warner.
When we arrived on scene we saw
the Lenawee County sheriff's office there, Michigan State police,
along with the FBI
and they had crime scene tape up around the entire area.
We definitely knew something big was either happening
or about to happen with the amount of authorities that were on scene.
[Troy] In October, we actually
had the opportunity to bring in the FBI.
They had a lot of resources and a lot of agents.
They brought in sonar penetrating devices,
so we could search the ground.
[reporter] Law enforcement agencies including the Lenawee County sheriff's department
Michigan State police and even the FBI were involved with today's search
which included looking through acres of property on the Warners' farm
and excavating a nearby fiel
[Rikkell] Excavators, dogs, everything.
Luminol the house.
I sat on my lawn.
With my family.
My brothers.
And watched them dig in the field right next to my house.
We did not get warned that that was happening.
Watching them dig was a mix of emotions.
I wanted an answer.
So bad.
I wanted this to end so bad
that I didn't care what it was that they found.
I want my mom to be alive.
But I know that my mom would never leave us.
[reporter] Bevier tells us there are no new leads after today's search.
And no persons of interest.
The Lenawee County sheriff's office says
they are working to solve this case for her family.
We were able to rule out some things,
but we were also able to get some things
that I'm really not gonna be able to comment on,
because it is an active investigation.
[Rikkell] The emotions I was feeling was hope...
that there was gonna be some end to this.
But there wasn't.
This is just another let dow
[Gregg] I don't wanna sound ungrateful.
I'm very grateful that they did it,
but it fell into that category too little too late.
They have searched his home multiple times.
They've searched his office, they've searched his warehouse.
They've searched the fields.
The FBI came in and dug up the fields.
They used sonar to try to fi
any evidence they possibly can.
They've downloaded all the security cameras.
They've downloaded his cell phones, they've downloaded the computers.
I mean, they've done everything that they could possibly do
to try to find some evidence.
But they haven't found anything.
So about seven months after Dee disappeared,
her family, getting very frustrated with how the investigation's
being handled with the Lenawee County sheriff's office.
That's when they decided to essentially take things into their own hands
and they formed a vigil for Dee
at her brother's property, Gregg Hardy.
And they were hoping that it would help spread the word about her disappearance
and really encourage people who might know something, to come forward.
[Gregg] I'd like to start off by saying thank you all very, very much.
It's been truly amazing how many people participated in trying to find Dee.
[Gregg] It was this past fal when the vigil was organized
People were at the point where they just wanted to do something.
Very frustrated by nothing happening.
[Rikkell] Anything that we can possibly do
to keep making people aware,
so that they can share.
And I think Dale has done nothing
to spread awareness that she's been missing.
We've had vigils
and he has not come to any of them.
He's had yard signs...
put in his yard.
He's taken them down immediately.
He has not spoke to any of the press.
Dale not only not participated by attending a vigil,
he did not ever participate in helping organize this one
or organizing any kind of event
that a normal husband would do
to try to help find his missing wife.
So...
his demeanor was totally suspicious about everything
I asked him if he had attended any of the vigils or any of that,
and A, he had never been invited by any of her family.
And second of all, we're in a small town.
All the fingers are pointed at him.
Dale wants to believe that she's still alive.
And is constantly telling Angelina,
"Mommy's on a break and she'll come back."
I think that he wants to
display that sense of confidence to his daughter.
[McKenzie] Nearly a year after Dee went missing,
her family reached out to a private investigator for help,
Attorney Billy Little.
And what makes him such a key part of this
is that he has extensive experience when it comes to murder investigations.
Not only with his private practice, but also in the military.
[Gregg] We were at somewhat of a standstill
actually, with the investigation.
The authorities weren't getting anywhere with the process.
Or they weren't getting there with any speed.
The lack of transparency,
the lack of accountability
to the family, in my opinion has been very frustrating to say the least.
My wife had actually seen a television program,
where Billy Little helped an investigation.
It was impressionable enough on me, I asked my wife if she could find this guy.
And I called him.
[Amy] I remember the first time that I met Billy Little
I got in my car and I cried after I talked to him
because I was happy.
They were tears of joy
and tears of, we're gonna get help.
This is the man that's gonna help us.
This is the man that's gonna get us answers.
He is very determined.
He said, just very matter-of-factly,
very confidently said, "I don't lose.
I've got him."
[narrator] Dee Ann Warner wa last seen April 25th, 2021.
[narrator reading]
[Billy] My name is Billy Little, I'm an investigative attorne
I've been invited by the family to help find out what happened to Dee Warner
When I come on a case,
it is a firehose of information.
Hundreds of hours of interviews that I've recorded.
And thousands of pages of documents, and I have to sift through that.
And then you start to find things
and the pieces start to come together.
You start to think, "okay, here we go.
Now we got something."
[Troy] Like any other county, any other police agency,
we have other things that we're investigating.
It's a tough thing because you...
you wanna be there for the family.
You want to be there for Dee
And we want to find the trut
And if a private investigato helps to get to the truth,
then we welcome that because it's all for the family.
It really is.
[Billy] Investigating a missing person is a process of elimination
Dale starting throwing us stories about,
well, she had this wealthy friend who had a private jet,
that she went to Mexico.
That she went to Jamaica.
I started looking at that.
Looking for this friend, if she did go to Mexico, how did she do it?
Did she withdraw money out of the bank before she went
Were there any financial transactions after she left?
Any credit card usage?
Any phones, any crossing of borders?
[Larry] You know, she loved to travel, so...
Dale made the suggestion that maybe she's in Mexico or Jamaica.
Sometimes people wanna get away and they wanna start a new life.
Um...
we just don't know.
[Amy] For her to go to Mexic
go to Jamaica... No.
You have to have money.
This is not something that you just pick up and like,
take off and do, you have to have a plan.
Don't get me wrong, she's a smart woman.
But it would take a very, very smart person
just to literally drop off the face of the Earth
with no communication.
[Billy] But there's no evidence, there's no cars missing,
there's no luggage missing.
One by one, things are not adding up.
[McKenzie] So, early in our reporting we learned that
Dee and Dale Warner, they were well off.
They both had successful businesses,
they were doing well.
Dee owned that trucking company.
Dale had the agriculture business.
It seemed important to look into their finances
to see if that maybe played a role in Dee's disappearance.
[Billy] Dee ran this very profitable trucking company
When she went missing, the assets began being bled off.
Stolen.
Over a million dollars has been taken from that business.
Dale started a new business
called Ddw Transportation.
And just transferred all the assets over there.
How can you possibly transfer assets...
when you don't own them?
Which is what Dale is doing.
Dale produced this power of attorney
that was signed back in 2014, allegedly.
And the document was clearl not Dee's signature.
Any layperson could've looked at it and seen that.
But the document was sent to a qualified
handwriting analysis examine that came up with an expert opinion,
that that absolutely was not her signature on a power of attorney.
Why would a person produce a forged power of attorney?
Especially when you say she's coming back.
If she is coming back,
she's sure as heck is gonna know that that's a forged power of attorney.
But there were certainly questions about Dale's involvement in Dee's business.
And there were other troubling factors about their relationship
that were starting to come to light.
[Billy] There are a lot of things about Dale's behavior that are bizarre.
He had the need to know everything about her.
He had the need to control her.
To make her do what he wanted her to do.
In order to do that, he's gotta monitor what she's saying,
what she's doing.
So part of that was, he would hide his iPad
in the office in the slots where files would be kept on a desk.
She would have conversations in her office
and she would say,
and she would point to the recording device
and then whisper to that person,
"We're being recorded."
[Amy] Dee had often told me that she was being recorded.
That she would find iPads in odd places
in the office and that the red light was on,
which means, you know, that it's being recorded.
It's eerily odd.
There's been several times where we would be out to eat.
And all of a sudden, Dale would show up.
And sit in a booth right by us,
so there was no privacy.
Just very odd.
To say that it's coincidental would be an understatement.
[Rikkell] Dale was showing up places that she was at.
Dinner parties.
And being...
possessive to her.
In July of 2020...
my mom mentioned finding something in her car.
She thought it was very strange.
Dustin, my spouse, said, "go get it. Show me."
So she went out to her car and brought it in.
She just...
laid it on the counter
and he looked it up,
and it was a tracking device
My mom was going to confront him.
And when she did,
he said he didn't know what it was.
[Larry] The idea that there was a tracker on Dee's car,
I just wanna address that real quickly.
That tracker was only for security purposes.
They had sort of suggested that Dale was somehow following her.
None of that's true.
That tracker was only for the purposes of if the car was stolen.
So in a small town, you never know.
[Billy] I don't find that th particular county is a hotbed for stolen cars
And the only tracking device was put on Dee's car.
Not the other cars.
There are millions of dollar worth of equipment up there
that don't have this tracking device.
And, if it was truly to find a stolen vehicle,
he would have no reason to hide that from her.
This is an element of contro
An element of abuse, an element of stalking.
He's monitoring her phone.
He's recording her surreptitiously.
He is very concerned about everything that she's doing.
Until she goes missing.
All of a sudden, not concerned about where she is, not trying to find her.
In March of 2022,
a witness gave us information.
Who that witness is, I can't reveal at this point.
I believe that I can prove Dale's alibi is a lie.
Dale's statement that they were asleep and he left at 6:00 AM,
I know, without any doubt, that is false.
On the night of April 24th,
I know where he was, I know what he was doing.
Dale was absolutely not at home sleeping.
[Billy] I received informati on the Sunday when Dee disappeared,
that between 3:00 and 4:30 AM that morning,
Dale left his home.
Dale was at his father's farm at 3:55 AM.
He was seen by a witness going into the office,
getting the keys for the chemical and equipment barn.
When he was seen by witnesse
he was in a hurry, he didn't address anybody.
He didn't look at anybody.
He was completely different than he had behaved in prio times when they had seen him
In my opinion,
Dale went to his father's place
to try to dispose of Dee's body.
[Larry] You know, the night that she went missing,
Dale was wearing his Apple watch
and he was connected to his Apple phone.
And there was not a pulse that was raised.
His disposition was of a normal person sleeping.
Got up to go to work at 6:30 in the morning,
saw his wife laying on the couch and went to work.
Neither Dale nor his attorney have shared the Apple watch data with us.
And we have requested that
and we would be happy to look at it,
and happy to have some independent experts look at it.
But I turned over a great deal of information to the police.
The Lenawee County sheriff's office has named Dee Anne Warner's husband
a person of interest in her disappearance.
[male reporter] Her family pointing the finger at Warner's husband, Dale Warne
in connection to her disappearance.
However, Lenawee County sheriff's office has not named a suspect in the case,
instead, calling Dale Warne a person of interest.
[Troy] The only difference between a person of interes
and a suspect is, a suspect you have a crime
and it's been labeled a crim
In this situation, we have a missing person.
Although, the longer that missing person case goes,
we'll see what happens as far as developing into something else.
[Gregg] For me, personally,
it's hard to imagine why that person wouldn't be considered a suspect.
It definitely put a divide in the county on who was on whose side.
So many people went straight to thinking that
Dale may have been responsib for Dee's disappearance.
But at this point,
sheriff's office really hasn't commented much about where they stand
on their investigation.
And we could see the frustration building with the family.
But Dale and his attorney still maintain his innocence
They say that he has cooperated with authorities.
And they still say that Dee left on her own accord.
[Larry] Dale really, truly believes
that over the course of a period of years, she planned her exit.
I think that she set herself up,
when he went to work,
to avoid the security cameras and she left.
She knew where she was going
and she knew she wanted to start fresh.
And that's the reason why you haven't found any evidence whatsoever
of her demise.
We hope she's okay.
But at this point,
there's no evidence to suggest he did anything
or anybody close to him did anything to assist in her disappearance.
The best case scenario,
I would hope that she is somewhere like Fiji,
sitting on the beach, having a drink,
living life to the fullest.
I would love to just be mad at her,
instead of mourn her.
But sadly, she is also the type of person
and the type of mother
that could never put people through this amount of hurt
and this amount of pain.
"The goose in the yard that was bathed in the starlight..."
[Amy] This is raw and it's real.
And it's true.
I constantly wonder what happened
and where she's at.
[Troy] I can say that the sheriff's office,
state police and the FBI, we will continue to work on this
until we can get closure.
We're not gonna give up until we have the truth.
[Gregg] The reality is this
There was only one person at the house
on the evening that my sister disappeared.
She didn't just vaporize.
And that one person knows where she's at now.
Everybody who's involved
in my sister's death needs to pay the price.
The final goal of here would be to see someone in prison.
[Rikkell] I one hundred percent think that
Dale is responsible for what happened to my mom.
So we're ready for justice for my mom.
There will be closure for the family.
I guarantee it.
I will not be gone until there's closure.
This investigation is gettin bigger, not smaller.
I'm not gonna leave until it's done.
And the longer this goes on,
the worse it gets for Dale.
I now know what happened, and I know that justice is coming.
I have zero doubt in my mind that there will be resolution for this family.