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[narrator] Dee Ann Warner
disappeared on April 25, 202
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[Rikkell] Usually,
every Saturday and Sunday,
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we would
go over to my mom's house
and have breakfast.
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She wasn't there.
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That was
a huge red flag to me.
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[narrator] Her family
is desperate for answers.
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Many things were bizarre.
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She took her purse.
She had her phone.
She had her makeup bag.
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There was no evidence
of any kind of a note.
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For her to go to Mexico,
go to Jamaica... No.
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[Rikkell] She got
in a really bad fight
with her husband.
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She was ready
to end the marriage.
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She was ready
to sell the businesses.
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[narrator] This episode
of Disappeared
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retraces Dee Ann's
last known steps.
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[Amy] She wouldn't leave us
wondering what happened.
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She wouldn't
do this to her kids.
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She wouldn't
do this to her grandkids.
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[Rikkell] Watching the FBI,
the police dig,
was a mix of emotions.
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I want my mom to be alive,
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but I know that my mom
would never leave us.
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[Billy] There will be
closure for the family.
I guarantee it.
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I will not be gone
until there's closure.
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[narrator] The more people
who know Dee Ann's story,
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the greater the chance
of bringing her home.
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Share on social media.
Get the word out.
Help find her.
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Have you seen Dee Ann Warner
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[Rikkell] My name
is Rikkell Bock
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and I am Dee's
youngest adult daughter.
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It was a Saturday
and I went over to her house
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and that was the last time
I got to see her.
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My mom had a heart of gold
and would do anything
for anybody.
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"The goose in the yard
that was bathed
in the starlight,
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and hunkered them down
in their nest for the night."
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If you needed her,
she would be there.
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But you also didn't
wanna get on her bad side
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and you didn't
wanna lie to her
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'cause she
took care of business.
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[Amy] My name is Amy Alexand
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and I have known Dee
for the last 12 years.
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Dee was the life of the part
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She radiated light.
She radiated life.
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She texted everybody
and had to know everything
about everyone
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because she genuinely
cared for people.
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She always went
above and beyond for people.
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Very, very giving woman.
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Her kids and her grandkids
meant everything to her.
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I have an older sister
and then two older brothers
from my dad,
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and then Angelina,
half-sister, from my mom
and her second husband Dale
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My sister and Mr. Warner
took up when they were
both married.
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It raised a lot of eyebrows
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particularly because
you wouldn't match them.
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I mean,
she had a dynamic personality
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that was outgoing
and vivacious.
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He had more of an
introvert personality.
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So they were, dynamically,
polar opposites,
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not only
in their personalities
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but also in how
they presented themselves.
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He had to be
far from a GQ guide, for sur
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She was more high-maintenanc
well-taken-care-of woman.
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In fact, I don't ever remember
seeing her out of the house
without her makeup on.
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And he was the total opposit
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I mean,
I never seen the guy withou
a pair of blue jeans on,
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a work shirt
and a pair of work boots.
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Their way of meshing
was business.
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And I think that's what
drove them together.
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They had the same dreams,
the same goals,
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and they could
accomplish that together.
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You know,
they started with one busine
and then grew to five.
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[McKenzie] My name
is McKenzie Kuehnlein.
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I'm an anchor and reporter
with WTVG 13abc.
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So, I cover
a lot of Lenawee County.
That's a bit of my beat.
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I'm also from the area.
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Lenawee County
is a very rural area
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and Dee and Dale Warner's
family
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is definitely a dynasty
in the community,
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specifically when it comes to
the farming side of things.
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They both
have farming backgrounds
that span generations.
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Dee's family
and her brother Gregg Hardy
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has a mega dairy farm
just down the road.
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And Dale also
started his business War-AG
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and then Dee started
what was a trucking business
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so they were very well known
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But family and friends
will tell you that
this was no perfect marriage.
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They had a rocky relationship.
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A lot of times,
they had arguments that were
based on their business.
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[Amy] There were some
very poor business decision
that were made
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and she always felt like
she had to fix everything.
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She would often talk to me
about divorcing Dale
or leaving Dale.
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That conversation
happened a lot
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where she was going to leave
she was gonna divorce him,
she was done.
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When I was young,
we would leave
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and we would
go stay at a hotel.
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We'd stay at my uncle's
for a night or two
and then we'd go back.
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And everything was fine
until the next fight
and we'd leave.
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My house is actually
right behind my mom's farm.
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So, usually, every Sunday
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we would go over
to her house in the morning
and have breakfast.
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So it was just
a normal Sunday.
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I went over there
with my family.
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She wasn't there.
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We walked
all around the house.
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I couldn't
find my little sister or Dal
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so I assumed
she was maybe with them.
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But she wasn't responding
to my text messages,
so I called her...
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[phone rings]
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...and her phone
went straight to voicemail,
which doesn't happen ever.
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She never shuts her phone of
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I knew that if she
wasn't going to be there
she would have told me,
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so that was
a huge red flag to me.
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Dale ended up calling me
a couple hours later
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and asking me
if I had heard from her,
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and said,
"Well, she's mad at me again,"
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and she was
leaving him for good.
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I was too
shocked at the situation
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to even comprehend
what he was really saying.
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I just stayed quiet.
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I just had
a really strange feeling.
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On Sunday evening
I confronted Mr. Warner
face-to-face
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and said, "Dale,"
and this is a quote,
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"What the hell went on here?
What the hell happened?"
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He explained to me that
they'd had a horrible fight
the night before.
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She had been very upset.
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And he had
given her a back massage
on the living room floor
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and she fell asleep.
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He picked her up
and put her on the couch
about 10:30-or-so
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and he went to bed.
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And when he got up
at 6:30 in the morning
to go out to work on the far
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she was snoring on the couch.
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He said, you know,
that she took off.
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He reaches
in his left-hand pocket
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and pulled out
her wedding ring
in his left hand
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and bounced it up and down
like a golf ball,
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and he said,
"She left this on my desk."
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Many things were bizarre.
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There was no evidence
of any kind of a note
or anything like that.
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Her car was in the garage.
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I said,
"Well, Dale, she didn't walk
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She never walked anywhere.
She always drove her car.
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"How do you think she left?"
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And he said,
"Well, somebody must have
picked her up."
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She took her purse.
She had her phone.
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She had her makeup bag
and her curling iron.
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I called my brother and
had him look at the cameras.
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He came to the office because,
at the time, he worked there,
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and he looked through
all of the cameras,
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so on the exterior
of the house,
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the inside of the office,
all around the buildings,
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just to see who was there,
at what times
and what they were doing.
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And there was
nothing with her.
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You couldn't find her at all
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By five or six o'clock
that night
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my siblings all decided
that it would be a good idea
to contact the police,
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so we made
our missing person's report.
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[Troy] My name is Troy Bevie
I'm the sheriff
of Lenawee County
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investigating the
disappearance of Dee Warner
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So, our deputy responded
out to the location
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to take
a missing person report.
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The deputy
did talk to Dale initially
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and the information
that Dale gave to the deputy
was that she just took off.
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And our deputy
had some concerns
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and that's why, the next day,
the detective
was following up on it.
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What's unusual here,
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things were not taken
that normally were,
car or other personal items.
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That really spawned us to
start doing more investigation
around the home.
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[Amy] I'm 47 years old.
I've never known anybody
to disappear.
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Never even knew somebody
that knew somebody
that disappeared.
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In fact, we leave our keys
in our vehicles.
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We hardly lock our house.
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[McKenzie] So,
news of Dee's disappearance
consumed the county.
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This type of thing
just doesn't happen.
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This was the biggest news
to break in this area
in years.
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And so,
a lot of people had question
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about what happened to Dee,
where she was,
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and they were all
wanting answers as well.
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[Rikkell] We reported
her missing on a Sunday.
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They came on a Tuesday to do
a big search at the farm
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with the helicopters,
the drones, the dogs.
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Dale initially gave consent
for them to search the farm
and the house,
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but within two hours
he revoked consent
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and told them to leave
and come back with a warrant
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'cause he needed
to go back to work.
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I just remember
listening to him
tell me why he did that
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and all I keep thinking
in my head is,
"Your wife is missing."
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We have a lot of farmers
in Lenawee County.
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And there's a lot of farmers
that, when it's time to farm,
it's time to farm,
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even if someone is missing,
whether that's right or wrong.
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But we continued on
with our investigation.
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By the time they
got their warrant approved
and signed by a judge
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and got themselves
gathered together,
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it was dark when they got back
on that evening.
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And I know that for sure
because I was actually
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farming in a field
where I could watch them
right next door.
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It was certainly
inhibited by darkness
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and would not be anywhere near
as good a search
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as they would've done
in the daylight
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when they were there
to start with.
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It's just frustrating
and it's horribly painful
for the family.
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[Rikkell] So,
we just were waiting.
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And we kept waiting
for something.
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There has to be
something there
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that proves whatever happened.
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It felt like
I got punched in the gut
because it was just nothing
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And I just was very confused
at why Dale
just didn't seem concerned.
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[Gregg] At this point,
I actually told Dale,
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"You're the husband.
You're the spouse.
All eyes are gonna be on you."
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[Amy] So, that Saturday
she had texted
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that there was a big fight
and that she was
very upset with Dale.
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Dee was definitely the type
that if something upset her
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she had no problem
telling anybody.
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She was going
to send Angelina somewhere
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and I said,
"Well, let her come over
and play with her cousin."
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So, she said, "Okay."
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And I got there at 7:42
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and that was
the last that I ever...
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Her phone was off after that.
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[Rikkell] That was the day
she got in a really bad figh
with Dale, her husband.
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She was ready
to end the marriage.
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She was ready
to sell the businesses.
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She was ready to leave.
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That was the last time
I got to see her.
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[McKenzie] So,
from the very beginning,
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Dale maintained that Dee
left on her own accord,
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possibly to Mexico, Jamaica.
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Now, the sheriff's office says
that this is a possibility,
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but when we
talked to the family,
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they said this is no way that
Dee would just up and leave,
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especially with a young chil
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You start
process of elimination
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and the first one
to get eliminated
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was, actually,
someone picking her up.
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I contacted
all of her friends.
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All of them
were extremely surprised
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about what I was telling them
about Dee's disappearance.
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We had no one
that could've, quote, unquot
"Picked up Dee,"
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given her a ride.
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[Troy] So, as we respond
to a missing person report,
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you let the facts
send you in the direction
that you need to go in.
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So, as you're
getting that information,
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you wanna make sure that
you're asking things like,
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"Did they take
a particular credit card?"
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So that you can
look at bank accounts.
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[Amy] There's no
bank activity.
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You can't go MIA
and not have availability
to funds, to money.
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My sister,
respectfully, she was
high-maintenance, okay?
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So her lifestyle,
wasn't gonna,
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you know, live in the woods
in some tent.
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So, she would've
had to have money
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and she would've
had to have a lot of it.
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The probability of her
leaving him a wedding ring
that was sizeable
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is flat zero.
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That would've been
an easy thing
to generate cash by.
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We had many concerns
when she went missing.
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Dee wasn't a person who would
go hide and not say anything.
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She was a communicator.
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The information that
we really had from the family,
and it made sense,
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was she would never
not get in touch with them.
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You know, it was clear afte
the facts started to come ou
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that finding the truth
about what happened to Dee
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would be
a little more difficult
than we had initially thought.
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It wasn't unusual that she
might have wanted to get away
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because of a fight
with her husband,
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but it was the circumstances
around how she left.
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No car, no daughter,
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no contact, no nothing.
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And so, I was concerned about
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how she may have
harmed herself.
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We had a community search
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that took place
on the Saturday
after she went missing.
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There were 40 or 50 people
that spent hours
walking the property
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looking for a body because of
a potential suicide.
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Early in the spring,
there was no foliage
or anything like that,
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so everything was
pretty visible at that time.
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We walked the property,
looked all over
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and couldn't find
any evidence whatsoever.
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And then in addition to tha
and during that week,
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I had been speaking to experts
in criminal psychology
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and in psychology
and psychiatry,
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talking about,
how does a woman
commit suicide?
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And it became
very obvious that
that wasn't a possibility.
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She did not have
the capability
to leave Angelina,
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or she does not have
the capability
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to put anybody else
through this hurt.
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There's no way possible
that she would hurt any of us
this bad.
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She didn't have it in her.
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She wouldn't leave us...
wondering what happened.
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She wouldn't
do this to her kids.
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She wouldn't
do this to her grandkids.
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"The goose in the yard
that was bathed
in the starlight..."
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[Gregg] So, we instantly
began investigating
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that toxic relationship
between my sister
and Mr. Warner.
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So, that Saturday,
when I was there
picking up Angelina,
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Dale pulled in.
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And when she saw him
she acted afraid,
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like she wanted
to run from the door.
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I've seen Dee
upset many times,
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but this was on
a whole different level
of being upset.
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She never, ever
expressed anything to me
about being scared of him
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until the day
before she went missing.
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By the end
of our conversation,
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she kind of randomly
just said,
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"I watch Dateline,
like, every night
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and he could
do something like that to me."
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[Amy] I definitely have
a lot of regret,
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not staying
or not taking her with me
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or making sure
she left the house.
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[Gregg] For me,
the most bizarre
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was Dale's
total lack of concern,
his total lack of emotion...
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his total demeanor about,
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"I just wanna
get my life normal and go on,"
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was, in my opinion,
more impactful than
sending the search party away.
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[Troy] When the
investigation started,
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the lead detective pretty much
spelled it out for Dale.
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"You're the husband.
You're the last person
that saw her.
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You are gonna be the person
that everybody focusses on,
including us."
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[Larry] My name's Larry Leib
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I'm an attorney
here in Michigan.
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Maybe two or three days
after Dee went missing,
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I got a call from Dale
and I agreed to represent hi
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It is a bizarre situation.
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I don't even wanna
call it a case.
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I think
it's really a situation.
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There's been
no evidence whatsoever
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that connects him
or anybody close to him
to her disappearance.
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[McKenzie] Early on,
Dee's family,
they were suspicious of Dale
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But those that support Dale
say that there could have be
other theories.
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So, as part of our reporting,
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we did find that Dee had
an argument with an employee
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just a few days
before her disappearance.
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[Larry] I understand that
Dee was a difficult person
to work with
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and somebody specific
didn't care for her.
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[Amy] You're going to
ruffle some feathers
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and you're gonna
step on some toes
when you're in business.
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You can't possibly
please everybody.
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[Rikkell] She got
in a really bad fight
with a couple employees
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and she was
really, really upset.
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[McKenzie] So,
we were shown a text messag
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that Dee received
just a few days
before her disappearance.
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That text was sent by someone
who was close
with the employee
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that Dee
got into that argument with
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The text message
was pretty nasty.
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It was rude and insulting,
called her a mess,
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even alleging
that she was taking
anti-anxiety medication.
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So this text
raised a lot of red flags
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and a lot of people
were wondering,
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"Did this play a role
in Dee's disappearance?"
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The Lenawee County
sheriff's office
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has not made any comment
about these text messages,
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so it definitely has
a lot more questions
than answers
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when it comes
to those text messages.
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Dee's family thinks that
she handled the business wel
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so the fact that she would
have any sort of violence
within the workplace
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is something that her family
definitely does not think
would happen.
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I never really had
any concern for her safety
with the employees.
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I felt like she had
a pretty strong bond
with most of them.
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Most of her employees
have worked for her
for a long time.
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So, in August of '21
Dale called my spouse Dustin.
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He had something that
he thought we needed to see
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I, of course, was, like,
ready for something.
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So we went over there
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and he hands me
this three-page letter
in my mom's handwriting.
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Dale said that he found it
about a week after
she disappeared
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and he'd just gave it
to the sheriff's department
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Why are you just now
handing that over?
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On this letter,
it talked about how much
my mom loved him
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and how she worked so hard
for him to be happy,
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and she just
couldn't make him happy.
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It didn't talk about
that she was leaving.
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And then it kind of
abruptly ended.
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With no signature.
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Nothing.
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I took pictures
of this letter.
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And I sent it to my siblings.
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And my brother said,
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00:21:53,021 --> 00:21:56,355
"I know that this letter
isn't recent.
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She wrote this letter
a couple of years ago."
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00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:03,654
It was very strange.
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And that was when
I realized...
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he's manipulating
me to think that
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she took off on us.
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And I know that's not true.
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[McKenzie] So,
in October 2021,
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I was called out on
breaking news that
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FBI agents were at
the property of Dale
and Dee Warner.
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00:22:24,886 --> 00:22:27,011
When we arrived on
scene we saw
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the Lenawee County
sheriff's office there,
Michigan State police,
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along with the FBI
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and they had crime scene tape
up around the entire area.
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00:22:33,770 --> 00:22:36,604
We definitely knew something
big was either happening
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00:22:36,606 --> 00:22:40,232
or about to happen
with the amount of authorities
that were on scene.
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[Troy] In October,
we actually
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had the opportunity to bring
in the FBI.
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They had a lot of resources
and a lot of agents.
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They brought in sonar
penetrating devices,
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00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:54,963
so we could search the ground.
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[reporter] Law enforcement
agencies including the Lenawee
County sheriff's department
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Michigan State police
and even the FBI were
involved with today's search
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00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:03,839
which included looking
through acres of property
on the Warners' farm
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and excavating a nearby fiel
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[Rikkell] Excavators,
dogs, everything.
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Luminol the house.
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I sat on my lawn.
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With my family.
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00:23:14,435 --> 00:23:16,118
My brothers.
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00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:19,730
And watched them
dig in the field right
next to my house.
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00:23:20,775 --> 00:23:24,360
We did not get warned
that that was happening.
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00:23:25,279 --> 00:23:28,531
Watching them dig was
a mix of emotions.
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00:23:29,283 --> 00:23:30,741
I wanted an answer.
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00:23:31,369 --> 00:23:32,243
So bad.
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00:23:32,245 --> 00:23:34,703
I wanted this to end so bad
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that I didn't care what
it was that they found.
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I want my mom to be alive.
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But I know that my mom
would never leave us.
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[reporter] Bevier tells us
there are no new leads
after today's search.
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And no persons of interest.
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00:23:50,337 --> 00:23:52,221
The Lenawee County
sheriff's office says
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00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:54,473
they are working to solve
this case for her family.
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00:23:54,475 --> 00:23:56,809
We were able to rule out
some things,
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but we were also able
to get some things
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that I'm really not gonna
be able to comment on,
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00:24:00,764 --> 00:24:03,732
because it is an active
investigation.
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[Rikkell] The emotions
I was feeling was hope...
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that there was gonna
be some end to this.
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But there wasn't.
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This is just another let dow
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[Gregg] I don't wanna
sound ungrateful.
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00:24:17,281 --> 00:24:19,457
I'm very grateful
that they did it,
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00:24:19,459 --> 00:24:22,042
but it fell into that category
too little too late.
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00:24:25,089 --> 00:24:27,923
They have searched his home
multiple times.
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00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:30,468
They've searched
his office, they've searched
his warehouse.
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00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:32,052
They've searched the fields.
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00:24:32,054 --> 00:24:34,430
The FBI came in
and dug up the fields.
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00:24:34,474 --> 00:24:37,141
They used sonar to try to fi
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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.
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00:24:41,722 --> 00:24:44,732
They've downloaded
his cell phones, they've
downloaded the computers.
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00:24:44,808 --> 00:24:47,526
I mean, they've done
everything that they
could possibly do
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to try to find some evidence.
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00:24:50,615 --> 00:24:52,198
But they haven't found
anything.
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So about seven months after
Dee disappeared,
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her family, getting very
frustrated with how
the investigation's
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00:25:03,878 --> 00:25:06,670
being handled with
the Lenawee County
sheriff's office.
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That's when they decided
to essentially take things
into their own hands
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00:25:10,218 --> 00:25:12,468
and they formed
a vigil for Dee
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00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:15,054
at her brother's property,
Gregg Hardy.
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And they were hoping that
it would help spread the word
about her disappearance
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and really encourage people
who might know something,
to come forward.
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00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:25,648
[Gregg] I'd like to start off
by saying thank you all
very, very much.
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00:25:25,691 --> 00:25:30,486
It's been truly amazing
how many people participated
in trying to find Dee.
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00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:33,489
[Gregg] It was this past fal
when the vigil was organized
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People were at the point
where they just wanted
to do something.
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Very frustrated by
nothing happening.
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00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:43,374
[Rikkell] Anything that
we can possibly do
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to keep making people aware,
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00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:46,627
so that they can share.
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00:25:46,704 --> 00:25:50,673
And I think Dale
has done nothing
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00:25:50,716 --> 00:25:53,926
to spread awareness
that she's been missing.
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00:25:54,554 --> 00:25:55,702
We've had vigils
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00:25:55,780 --> 00:25:57,263
and he has not come
to any of them.
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00:25:57,339 --> 00:26:00,391
He's had yard signs...
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00:26:01,185 --> 00:26:02,226
put in his yard.
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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.
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Dale not only not participated
by attending a vigil,
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00:26:13,364 --> 00:26:16,407
he did not ever participate
in helping organize this one
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00:26:16,483 --> 00:26:18,659
or organizing any
kind of event
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00:26:18,661 --> 00:26:21,787
that a normal husband would do
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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.