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I was looking at a quantity called the- And the search continues for a missing Lenaway County woman. A successful business woman goes missing without a trace. No signs of de-worner were founds and family told me they aren't giving up. Time is with the essence. The longer this goes on, the more concerned we become.
She had disappeared from the family home. I am a missing down for quite some time. You go through so many scenarios. Where in the hell is she? My family and I need to know something.
We searched every tip, every lead. More than 4,000 acres of land have been searched. For 52-year-old Dee Warner. They've used sonar, drones, he'd abradoms. They started putting up billboards around town.
Somebody has to know something. Help Dale find Dee. Help Dale. Try to find his wife. It's a literal needle and I hate that thing.
You're not starting to look everywhere. Dee's four adult children and her brother have spent every waking moment trying to find the 52-year-old mother. It was a total mystery of what happened to Dee Warner. It was like somebody just hit the stop button. Unlike.
It was Sunday, me and Dustin and our two girls went over to my mom's house. Was that a routine? We'd eat breakfast at her house and then we would go grocery shopping. A regular Sunday breakfast, so regular that they don't even text about it anymore. They just show up to the home.
We walked in and nobody was in there. And so I texted my mom and I asked her, where are you? And I didn't get a response. So we just made some breakfast. We cooked some eggs and toast and cleaned up and we just left.
I called her and the phone went straight to voicemail. She always answered her phone, always answered text messages any time, any day. It was just odd to me. So I called her friends and my other sister and my brother. Nobody knew where she was.
Nobody had heard from her. And so I went down to my uncle's, which is just down the road to see if maybe she went down there. Approximately 10 o'clock in the morning. I was out in the field farming. I said, well, I'm not seen her.
I'm not heard from her. But if I call her, she would always answer her phone. And she did not answer and her phone went right to him to voicemail. And then we came back to the house and checked around again. You know, we were just looking all over the house, the rooms, the bathrooms, the uslight was parked in the garage.
Her second vehicle, which was a Hummer, was parked out at the office. Was it unusual that the Hummer and Escalade were both there on the property Sunday morning and she wasn't? Yes. My mom, I mean, if she was leaving, she was driving. Dee never, never, never walked anywhere.
She would drive to her office, which was only a few feet away. The house in office sat on a 1,500-acre farm that Dee shared with her husband Dale. Dale called me in the mix of that time period. And he said, she was sleeping on the couch this morning when I left at 6 a.m. Dale Warner was very big into the farming business.
All hours of the day, he would be working on equipment or in the field. Dale went out to spray the fields, which was common of him to do early in the morning Sunday. I think I were very close. I was her only blood nephew. Around noon one o'clock, my father called me and he said, well, they can't find my sister.
Do you know where she's at? I said, I have no idea. The only thing I know to do, I'm the one that installed all over security cameras. And I said, let's review the cameras. We've got cameras all over the property, pointed all different directions.
The kids start going to the office and they're looking at the cameras. Try to find any clue that a vehicle come, that a person come, that she leave on her own. These are a camera that shows her walking to the road. There's never anything on camera that showed her into a vehicle. There are areas of the farm where the surveillance cameras don't pick up.
So Ms. Warner could have left voluntarily from that location, or Ms. Warner could have been taken out from that location, and that would not be caught on camera. No sign of anything. That would be ordinary.
Tell me about the kind of person your mom was. Vibrant, loving, nurturing. Always somebody that was wanting to take care of people. Everywhere we went, she knew somebody. Outgoing bubbly.
Very fiery personality. She had four adult children of her own. Four adult stepchildren that were from Bales First Marriage. Dean Dale had one child together, who was nine years old at the time of her disappearance. She was obsessed with her kids.
I mean, she loved them. If I needed help with anything, whether it was my kids, my house, my work, she was there. What was your mom like as a grandmother? She was very involved. She bragged about them all the time.
She loved to be a grandma. D was a successful business woman that showed it off. She did not hide her wealth. We were always going shopping for things and we always liked a lot of bling. Dressed to the nines, full jewelry, designer clothing.
Got her nails done, massage, facials. Always put together. From like, son up to sundown. You would never leave the house without the lashes, the makeup hair done. No.
So you're a hairstylist and you would do mom's hair. Even when I styled it, she always styled it herself. She was very particular about how she liked herself done. Aside from being there that morning, everything else seemed to be a typical Sunday morning. Were you worried?
I was worried, yes. She was always in contact with people. If something isn't right, they should have some sort of text message call to say I'm here. I'm there. So then a search, family members began around the home.
They're looking in the bedroom. They're looking in the office. Dale is now home. And he's convinced that she had taken off. They had an argument the night before.
It wasn't uncommon for her to leave after a heated argument. The night before, Dale said that. They got into a little fight. She got in my brain. And he gave her massage and she fell asleep on the ground.
And he picked her up and put her on the couch. And then she was there at 6am. He left. By evening, I was very alarmed. In fact, Shelly called me and said, listen.
Do you think they should call the police? And my response was instantaneous, absolutely. About 5 or 6 o'clock that night. We left the house and everybody kind of went home. And my siblings, we decided that we needed a call 911.
An officer requesting a ping for a phone for a missing person. Was there ever a thought that maybe this wouldn't add a hidden lifestyle? This isn't the first time she's done this, guys. We're in Tipton, Michigan. A very small town in Southeastern Michigan.
It's not even a one-horse town. It's a half-horse town. He drives through Tipton and you blink and you miss it. We have a post office and a church. That's all we got.
Typical farming community. You have your soybeans, corn, cattle. Basically, just all farmland. My family settled here in 1831. The main foundation of what our family has been involved in has been agriculture.
It has been for our family for six generations and of course, D was part of that. This is a small town. Was there an active buzz in the community about where's D Warner? Yes. You all call 911.
At what point do you really think this is not okay? Really from the very beginning. I literally took this exact route to get up to the kids when I first was dispatched to this incident. My name is Austin Hall and I'm a former deputy with the Lenowy County Sheriff's Office. I started my shift like normal at 4pm shortly after there.
I was called to meet with a family that was saying that their mom was missing. So in talking to the kids, I contacted dispatch and at least have a phone being requested. An officer was requesting a ping for a phone for a missing person. Which came back relatively quickly within about 10 minutes. The guy is currently off.
He's about to find a device was on. So this morning it's about 7-14 hours each time. I was pinging off of the closest rise in tower. It was just a half a mile from the farm. So after I talked with the kids, I felt like I needed to go check it out myself.
I talked to the husband who was home there with her that morning. Anytime we have interactions with the public, we always wear a body or on cameras. And I go knock on the door and as I turn to my right, I saw somebody coming around and let's Dale Warner. Hello? Are you Dale?
Excellent. I am Deputy All from Lonely County Sheriff's Office. How are you, sir? So I hear your wife is missing? Well, I don't know if she's missing or if she just left.
And he tells me that the day before, the two of them kind of got into an argument. They had an employee altercation. The deak kind of had it out with one of their truck drivers. She had an altercation with one of our employees. I came home last night when she was really upset.
My employee decided to quit. And he says she's an in-your-face kind of girl. I had all the occasions with quite a few people. She was pretty wide or a human wife. I don't know.
She's in your face and tell you how it is. And that was a very common story that even the kids said that she was a very opinionated woman. How would you describe her as a business woman? Strong, dedicated, tough, yes. She could get angry and she could yell and she could scream.
Outspoken, if she liked you, she liked you, if she didn't, she didn't like you. I worked with Dee for five years. I did. At Count's payable, I did a concreceivable. We became really good friends.
I think she bumped heads a lot of times with other men because it's a woman in a big position. She probably did have enemies just because of her personality. So this is all their land? That's correct. What you had here by the first blue silo.
That is the, what's the frequency office? What do you learn then about the businesses that Dee and Dale loan together? There's three primary ones. They have the farming operation. They have the trucking company, large semi-trac-trailer type business, and also some commercial spraying and farming services.
His priority was clearly the farming operation and her baby was the trucking company. This was no ragtag farm business. This was an empire of farming businesses. There's thousands of acres involved. There are millions of dollars involved.
So he goes on to say that that night they argue she gets a headache. Finally, they asked out on the couch, went to sleep and got her calmed down. I thought that was close to midnight when she finally went to sleep. And then this morning around six o'clock I got up and she was snoring away. So then I went out and got my chemicals and got sprayed loaded up.
I went to a bag here and I went in the house and she was gone. He reported several items to be missing. Her hair curlers gone, her hair dryers gone, her makeup bag is gone. And she has a go bag packed all the time. Because of the frequency in which she left, she kind of always had a bag pack that seemed.
He mentions that she takes off all the time and it was very much a run of the middle situation. She's with someone somewhere. I don't know what else to do other way today or so and see what she shows up. Yeah, I mean if you sign I don't want to get her swing off fired up. The kid's gonna go fire it up on a couple of weeks.
This isn't the first time she's done this guys. The kids have told me that this is far from the first time that she is left having an upset argument with Dale. And so I said is there anything unusual about this time? And he said well the only thing unusual about it is that their daughter didn't go with her. They went everywhere together.
You don't see one without the other ever. I'm concerned that my daughter's wondering what the hell's going on. It's one thing to be pissed off and take off. We really leave this guy three different businesses here so that their intentions are high all the time. Very common.
Marital dispute like that. Oftentimes it's mom got mad at dad and took off and was walking down the road to cool off some steam. She's a person who normally keeps your phone on her hip or is she's pretty never without it. Never without it. But I told the other kids she's got a second phone.
It's a secret phone that she doesn't know that I know she has it. Why would she have her? I have no idea. I haven't confirmed her about it because I didn't want the confrontation. Well that might be an important chunk of information there.
If someone disappeared on their own and there's no activity on their own cell phone, the secret phone could be something that she's going to communicate with someone else. And then on top of that, it reaches its hand in its pocket. The only thing that's really strange too is this time she put her wedding ring on her desk. Pulls out the biggest wedding ring I've ever seen in my life. And it's interesting.
That ring was approximately $35,000 to $40,000. She never took it off. Leaving a wedding ring to me would say that the marriage might be over. So that reinforced a Mr. Warner that she had left voluntarily.
She leaves behind a $40,000 wedding ring. It doesn't quite make sense. Well she has an extra period of repair. She's talked flirtatious about somebody. There's nothing more peaceful to me than being in the middle of a quiet field and doing just nature.
It's my way of being close to God. My job during the spring season is a lot of tractor riding. It's a lot of time and a cab of a tractor would really nothing but a radio to listen to. So you're just stuck with your thoughts. And I spent countless hours thinking about where D could be, what happened to D.
It's now been 24 hours since D Warner has been reported missing. And the Lendaway County Sheriff's Office heads back to the Lornour House. This time it's Detective Kevin Greca who talks to her husband Dale. Hey, I'm Detective Greca from the Sheriff's Department. Can we step inside?
Yeah, let's see if we can figure out what's going on. He says, oh come on in, come on in. He goes right into his kitchen. He's like, I forgot I haven't roasted him yet. We didn't show up. I forgot I'm back.
Dale was not panicked. You didn't hear worry in his voice. You don't expect foul play. I mean I don't want to get kids are going around. Yeah, I'll get to excited.
That's fine. That's right. But she's done this before. I mean I don't want to get everybody all worked up excited for it. She shows up tomorrow.
I just wanted to go home. Right. Not that. She goes to her here. I don't like having guys in there.
I've been playing bad for years. Your mom and Dale get married in 2006. Do you remember the wedding day? I do. Remember the wedding day being happy?
We all had her hair done. She was excited and happy to have the wedding and get married and kind of move on with their life together. So they were both previously married and they began their relationship as an extramental affair. At some point they both leave their spouses and end up getting married. The Warners and the Hardys, I always refer to the families being as the Hatfields and the boys because it seemed like they were always trying to outdo each other.
Dale and your mom in their marriage were they opposites? Were they similar? Dale and my mom were very much opposites. My mom was outgoing. She loved to do things.
She loved talking to people. Dale was very quiet. He didn't like to socialize. He didn't really have friends. He was a boring person.
He didn't want to do anything. All he wanted to do was farm. And farming was his life. This was a lifelong interest for Dale. Even in his high school yearbook he's pictured as a member of the Future Farmers of America.
I personally believe that these attraction to Dale was, they both had ambitions to do more than they were doing. They wanted to build in a little empire. We've poured through the house trying to find something, searching through bedrooms, combed through that rug. Look at the couch cushions, we even looked through garbage. There is nothing in the house that would point to a kidnapping, a murder, there's no blood stains anywhere.
Nothing seems out of place. Nothing stolen. Nothing broken. that leads them to think that there was a crime that occurred, nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Detective started doing some follow-up and some interviews. That Tuesday, after she went missing, Detective Greco came to my house and questioned me. Sorry, my dog's freaking out. I am gonna check this off, just... I was really nervous, because I'm like, wow, like the police are involved.
You reached out and nothing, and that's just... I tried Snap, I had tried Messenger. One thing that Dale reported to the Sheriff's Department immediately was that she had a secret phone. So when it came to this investigation, one of the bridges we had to cross was, was she having an actual marital affair? And then, who are you aware of right now for having an affair with right now?
I don't know where her having an affair with anyone. She has never told me. She keeps that as a cyber. But she's talked flirtatious about somebody. I just know they talk.
Thank you. Thank you. Dale, initially, is very consistent about the fact that he does not believe his wife to be having an affair. You don't think she's having an affair? No. I don't think she's having an affair.
I mean, I could be wrong. I don't think she's having an affair. So, any previous relationship she had, we were chasing them down at this time? What did you hear or were ultimately determined about that? She was involved in an affair, at least one at one point.
That did end prior to her disappearance. When did you learn that your mom was having an affair? I was a senior in high school. My mom would have me watch my little sister, and she would ask, you know, to go to town to go tanning. I ended up going through her phone one time, and I saw some messages that confirmed that it was happening, and then I didn't need to know anymore.
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Confirming Roger might just be the one. Way to go, Roger. Skip to the good part. Every minute the past was more unusual than something he was just mad and took off. They're casting a wide net on trying to talk to as many people as possible.
The sheriff's office is talking to these kids, friends, acquaintances, per brother. They're talking to Dale. Everyone had their own theory. She had COVID three, four weeks ago. This was in 21, COVID is still a very big deal going around.
He said that she was having real bad brain fog and just not quite acting right. It wasn't my wife anymore. It was like her whole personality, everything about her chain. And I don't get it. I work in the medical industry, so as far as like COVID, I'm infected people, maybe psychologically I really did mess with her more than others.
I did not see any evidence of her personality changing with COVID. No. What about Mads? Do you know what she's doing on there? No, no, the Mads either.
You know she takes them. I know she takes medication, but I don't know what she takes. She had had neck pain very bad, along with migraines. She had excruciating migraines. The interview on April 26th, they were kind of walking through the home and he asked about prescription medications.
He mentioned she had taken something for her migraine. The medication, did you think she took them? And Dale walks them over and pulls open the medicine cabinet and it's just full of bottles. No, I mean, I don't even talk about him. I mean, took him physically, so I was nervous over here.
Any clue? If you took some? She's got this many other vehicles. Okay. Alright.
It's... what about the suicidal end? Well, if you was talking about killers, you know, once you get pissed off, she's saying stuff about killing her. Quickly, quickly. Yeah, that's fine.
I mean, it's... But when was the last time she said something like that? It was that nice. Okay, so, you talk about killing herself? Okay.
You take that as much attention or something like that? It was just... Okay. Let's go to the green salt. She's not all of my siblings and everybody's like, you know, I guess I get that she ran off before, but she's never gone like this.
And this is all new. Police believe Dean may have had more than one affair in the past, so they speak to a man rumored to have been involved with her to see if she did have a second phone. These are fair weather persons. She might have been missing something not by me. You know?
Oh, if it was something she wanted or something in her favor, she was as good as it gets. She was a perfect friend, but if it wasn't going her way, you're a ******* *******. Have you ever had an affair with her? Absolutely not. Never once had I ever sleep with her.
So... Any physical... anything you've ever... Just... I guess her a couple times, but that was absolutely the end of it.
He explains it years later, Handy fell out over a dispute over a potential business deal. I don't know if you're any wonder, I mean, I wouldn't kill her, but I mean, I don't care that she's going either. You've had absolute confidence that you were not involved in her disappearance. He was helpful. He provided me what I asked him, and he did it diligently to prove that I had nothing to do with this.
How'd you communicate outside of her normal phone and all that kind of stuff? Nothing. That's why. It's your normal phone's the only way I ever talk to her. If she had a second phone, I have no idea.
Okay. I'm not blowing smoke. I really appreciate it coming in this is really important today. It's a lot of good for him. Thank you so much. There was no respect you guys getting anything I can do to help. I will.
I don't care much for Dean, but I do really like all of her kids. Yeah. I'm sorry they lost their mom, you know, or if they didn't, if she's gone somewhere. He was in fact in Florida at the time, and all of his time was accounted for. He was excluded as a suspect.
We never found any kind of evidence that she had a true-stack at phone. Mr. Warner was trying to come up with places he thought, where his Warner might be. He was trying to come up with aliases he thought she might use, or people she might contact. Like one day he came in and said next to me, and you know, where do you think she is?
What do you think could have picked her up and not said anything? And I'm just like, I have no idea, Dale. I don't know anybody that she knows that would pick her up and not tell any of her family. Dale could tell Parker that when he was having trouble sleeping, he would go out and work on these tanks, painting them. Well, I said, what the hell are you doing with this hydrostank?
I put this head down. He said, I just can't sleep at night. He said, I don't know what the hell's happened to Dean. And he said, she left me in this terrible mess. And he said, so I just can't sleep at night.
So I told the guys to bring some in hydrostanks and I needed to paint it. And I would paint him and I couldn't sleep. So that's what I've been doing. She appeared to be at a breaking point. They were starting to see some signs, starting to see some issues, bleeding into the marriage and the businesses.
She just seemed defeated on Saturday when I saw her. But she's not, she's usually fiery. And when she's mad, she just, you know, she'll pack her bag and she'll leave. And this was very different. This was a calm, defeated mom.
She wasn't in my opinion. Dean, I go, he's not my fault. She wasn't at the right point. She kept going, like, talking. And she was talking about a fight that she had with. Oh, God, what does this mean?
Todd, Eric shows up on the farm at approximately three o'clock in the morning on the 25th of April. Now, this is interesting if you have another person that D was arguing with, so that we can show up at the property in an hour. I want to copy. Dale talked to the police a number of times. He did allow them to search as property number of times.
It's still an active working farm property while it's just going on. It is not roped off with Tae. People are coming and going on to the property, but he is allowing them to walk around. In the early afternoon on April 27th, Detective Greco went back on scene and Greco is saying, you got a canine here that's going to start looking as well as some drones. I'm really sorry, guys, but I've got work to do. I've got fields that, you know, this is the one sunny day I'm going to have this week.
I've got to get up to work. You guys were told me this this morning. No, we're going to come out at six. No, I want to work back. I appreciate it.
She left here. And Greco did the proper thing and said, okay, guys, I'm sorry, consent's withdrawn. We've got to go. And so they all load back up and they leave. We just got shut down. So we'll debrief somewhere. He's like, no, you guys are done.
So he got the search warrant, goes back shortly after eight o'clock. I did call Dale. We do have a search warrant for the property at this point. We're just looking for her. They arrive with the drones, the dogs, cadaver dogs, as well as just search dogs.
Nothing evidentiary was found. Nothing substantial was found. Nothing at all. So then we go back. We got there. Dale was actually in the spray barn.
In the first moment he calls. And as we're talking to him, he actually agrees for another consent search to happen. We call more canines. We call more drones. We call more officers and detectives to come help.
He says, hey, I just want you to know you shouldn't bring your dogs into the spray barn. The phone's loaded in the inside and fungicides. Sure. I just want you to take dogs and air because the floor is still covered with it. They'll soak up to your feet. The box is one of our shoppers from now.
Yeah. I mean, just can't do what you want, but I got my dog's and I don't let him in. I don't let him in there either one. I just had a lot of them. I got it apart for him.
From that. We were running around. We were calling friends. And so what was our next step? We decided to have a search on that Saturday.
Greg, whose Dee's older brother took it upon himself to organize a community search. Friends, family that may have known Dee. We were the first ones to do a broad on foot search. And we walked at least 600 to 1,000 acres of land on foot. They were walking miles through fields and roads and cow pastures, just looking for anything for my mom.
We kind of had all designated Greg as our main leader. And he finally said, Shelly, Dee's not coming home. And at that point, I realized I thought, I'm sure she's not going to now. So while Dee's family is starting to come to terms with the idea that Dee may be gone, investigators are looking into a new lead. Shortly before her disappearance, Dee got into an argument with one of her trucking company employees.
A big part of what made her trucking business successful was their primary dispatcher and kind of manager of the business, Todd, Todd Nierig. She was very protective of Todd. She did anything she could for him. And then there was a lot of times where they bumped heads. It was a love-hate relationship.
I seen her that afternoon the Friday before she went missing. That was the day that her and Todd got into it. Todd told Detective Greca that he and Dee had a confrontation about the rates they were charging trucking customers and it escalated. And she was making a big deal. And just like, I just see them as her. It just changed me.
I have not seen her that upset before. I have seen her upset. I feel like she was done. And so that led into a fight with my mom and Dale because my mom felt like Dale didn't have her back. Was there ever a time you suspected Todd?
When I found out that Todd left at 3am on the 25th, it felt very strange to me. Todd Nierig shows up on the farm at approximately 3 o'clock in the morning on the 25th of April. And he does that to pick up a load to drive to Burns Harbor, Indiana. And he's on the property for approximately 10-15 minutes. And then he leaves the property and does his takes the load.
Where he was going, scared me. He was going to the Burns Harbor. Just took a metal melting place essentially. So she could have been in the back. So the only two people that were on that property right around the time that Dee went missing was Dale and Todd.
Was Todd involved? How do I eliminate that? How do I include or exclude him? A plan was hatched to secretly record Todd. All that helped was tonight. Run the great shit that she's been doing.
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The order was last seen at her home on Munger Road in Franklin Township outside to come see Michigan. At this point, we haven't ruled anything out. We're still investigating it as a missing person. Six months now, and we have nothing. Nothing added up. Time is your enemy, right?
And what was frustrating to me is I saw it in no urgency from the authorities. We were sure there's probably no more physical evidence we're going to find. So they started checking airlines. It has a lot of administrative nonsense. It took a lot of time. But as far as the community was concerned, they weren't seeing any action.
The family hired Billy Little as a private investigator. Billy Little, a man, investigator and an attorney. Families that are missing loved ones. They don't feel like they're getting the kind of results they want. That's generally when they reach out.
I went up to Michigan and started digging in. Billy was the person to come in and stir the imaginary pot for, excuse my language, but that was what got the ball rolling again. He rallied people. He gave us a hope that we could still push forward. This is Billy Little. I'm looking into the D Warner disappearance.
I wanted to know if you had a minute to talk. I wanted to ask you some questions about the D.M. Warner case. In that very morning of her disappearance, a truck driver had picked up a truck and left the premises to go to the Chicago area. So one of my first calls was to this guy named Todd Narek.
Well, there were some reasons to look at him. Todd was on the property in the early morning hours of that Sunday. It was very suspicious to me, but I didn't want to believe that he had anything to do with it. Because him and my mom were very close. I was trying to get him to talk about the case and the things that were going on while he was in what he felt was a safe environment.
So this young lady was willing to record their interactions. Somebody followed me and asked to fight him. I don't know. Who calls her brother? I know. I was like running her a **** sheep in the moor.
It's just a horrible thing for you right now. Well, did you kill her? No. I took a pile of your apple and passed the remove I made that big. I was on camera. My fault. I've been taken and run through the police saying.
Todd, if you were involved in this in any way. I would go along with anything bad under her. As pissed off as I was at her, I still have feelings. Because 90% of the time she was a joy to be around. And for 95% of the time that I worked there, it was always this great relationship.
He was probably one of the first employees that worked for Dee when she began the trucking company. And she became very close with this guy. And he was very close to her. Todd willingly took a lie detector test, which he passed. In my opinion, he was not directly involved in this either before or even an accessory after the fact.
There was a camp of people absolutely that thought perhaps Dee was killed. And he was there to help. And ultimately this theory was disproven. I eventually was able to rule Todd out. There was definitely something in the community where they wanted answers.
So there was this grassroots movement to try to find her. We had the Justice for Dee Facebook page. The Justice for Dee Facebook group got 25,000 people in it. The community definitely helped big time. We went through thousands of signs that said Justice for Dee.
Anything we could do to shout from the rooftops of like, we need help from our community. We did. And Dee was not part of that. No. There was actually a sign put in his yard and he took it immediately.
Took it down. Yes. If your wife is missing, why are you not out there looking for her? Was he doing anything to try to find your mom? No.
I really don't think he did anything at all to find her. He did not show up to the searches on foot, even when the law enforcement showed up. To talk to him about her being recorded missing, it was never urgent to find her at all. I don't know. I think I can tell another day goes by act.
I'm concerned. I'm not alarmed yet. The visuals were held in our event center. It was amazing to see how many people rallied together. Tonight, Warner's brother Greg spoke out for the first time.
It was my opinion that he did not leave her home momentarily. But rather she was planning on confronting Deele when he returned home on a day. So now the gloves are coming off. And I said, well, Deele, listen. I know you did it and I am going to get you.
So this is my mom's farm. My mom and dad divorced and then Deele moved in. And I live right here, right behind her. When everything unfolded, we could pretty much monitor everything. I just was afraid.
I didn't want things to get worse. Was your mom a fan of true crime shows? Yeah. She loved you crime. Did she ever suggest to you anything about what she saw actually playing out in her own life?
Yeah, she did. She made a comment about it. You know, I was mentioning something that Deele could do something like that to her. And by that, I would assume she means he could kill her. Their marriage was very volatile.
They were constantly fighting with each other. They were in marriage counseling. Money was absolutely an issue. Deele didn't like Deele's personal spending. Deele didn't like the fact that they always needed the latest farm equipment.
Where the business is doing well? The trucking company was doing well and that's about it. Who owned the trucking company? The trucking company was 100% my mom's name. They were certainly having a tumultuous time at the end.
The businesses and the issues with those certainly appeared to be bleeding over into the marriage. They had had times where they lost millions on different pieces. I did see Deele get angry a few times. I remember her telling me. They were in an argument in her bedroom and he got upset and pushed her and she fell and hit her head on the dresser.
It was the next morning she came in and showed me the goose bump on her head. I just remember distinctly asking her like, Dee, why is this okay? No incidents of domestic violence or abuse were ever reported to authorities. You know my mom would say, I feel like Deele's following me. I think he's tracking me.
In July of 2020, she had the car in for service and was brought to her attention that the tracking device was in the car. She was put back by that. She was really upset. Deele denied that it was a tracker. He claimed that he was using it to diagnose a problem with the Hummer.
Did your mom discuss with you that she was going to leave? Yes. Her biggest thing was she never wanted to divorce Deele because she didn't want to leave my little sister with him. I did have the hope that she would just one day get sick of it and just be done. She told me Saturday she wanted to sell everything.
She said, I told Deele I want to sell everything. And I thought, wow, she's really serious. Dee was going to have a final conversation with Deele about leaving, splitting up the businesses on that night and she knew it was going to be an argument and she didn't want the daughter to see that. So she had a friend that she contacted and said, hey, can you watch the daughter for tonight? I can have a conversation with Deele.
He was afraid of my mom divorced him. He would lose everything. The tracking company, the farm, everything. In my view, all the pointers were pointing at Dale Warner. Granted, we didn't have a body. Nothing.
There were a couple of places that I was suspicious about if Dalele had wanted to get rid of her body, it only seemed logical that it had to be somewhere close. So Billy said, can you show us where that location is? You got me showing where that is. Yeah, let's do it. We'll work here.
So we walked back there and I specifically pointed out this location and said that no one had really looked there. So we turned around to come back and I said, okay, we got a problem. I said, here comes Dale Warner. How are you, sir? I'm not sure I've been doing that.
Yeah, you know, I just realized that when... Oh, you didn't have to lie. That's a ****. Well, I got Mr. Hardy here with you.
Okay. He's ****ed trespassing too. What would you do? Greg flies down your place and you didn't have permission. Don't **** call me and ask.
Sorry. Don't do that, sir. What the ****? Well, it was truly showing your two colors. I think he became more and more suspicious than I was onto him.
The family had really started to latch onto Dale because of his behavior and because of his blasé demeanor. Not participating in the searches. That's your guy. Tell me about the billboard. Help Dale find you.
Yeah, so Greg bought the billboard to get Dale's detention of like, are you going to help us find your wife or... No. We would like this billboard to trigger Dale to get some emotion out of him because somebody knows something. My reaction is I laughed. I thought it was very hysterical because obviously he hasn't lifted one finger to help find her.
It was a psychological play. We were hoping that by having this kind of impact on Dale Warner, that at some point, perhaps, the authorities would literally give him a hard interview and maybe he would actually talk. You couldn't make a turn without seeing some kind of yard sign, without seeing something on the side of a farm building. At every turn in Tipton, Michigan, you'll spot signs like these demanding justice for D. Remember this has been going on months, right? And we were getting nothing. I mean, absolutely nothing.
Sheriff Troy Bovier says detectives have kept an open mind but have told these husband that he is a person of interest in the case. I won't say he's been extremely active in the search, but he's been cooperative. I was very frustrated along with everyone else because I did not feel like he was a suspect at all. So I feel like I caused this uproar of saying we need a state to take over this investigation. I'm not afraid to tell Sheriff what I think and I'm not afraid to call out people who are not being accountable. And so that's what I did.
Dale Warner! This is my favorite picture of us. Oh my gosh. She was always the life of the party. We were at a Jason Aldean concert in that picture. We went to a lot of concerts.
This was the Keith Urban concert in the suites that really shows her personality. We had a special moment where Blue Ain't Your Color came on. And there's a portion in that song. Something about that guy isn't right for you. I'm serving you, you're talking that guy.
I screamed at her. And I'm like sobbing because, you know, he's not right for you. He's not treating you good. And she kind of looked at me and smiled and I don't know. I just always remember that moment and I just wish that, you know.
What happened to Dee Warner? The mother of five from Tecumseh has been missing more than a year now. Yeah, more than. Yeah, more than. It was tense to say the least for the Sheriff's office. They were under immense pressure.
In a statement to ABC News, the Lenaway County Sheriff's Office said this investigation presented many challenges for an office of our size and we recognize our resources for women. After months of the demands of wanting the case to be taken to the state police became louder and louder. Lenaway County is no longer safe under the current leadership and threats of its citizens. I wouldn't wish what my family has gone through upon anyone. We're going to do whatever it takes to bring justice to my hand and prevent this from happening again.
We do care because we care. Last week on the 26th, I get an official request to mission the state police to become the lead agency. So you join this case, missing woman Dee Warner. What are your first steps when you start? The first thing I do is essentially a basic review to get an understanding of what's already been done.
At what point did you really turn your investigation more toward Dale? Well, it's interesting because you don't investigate people as an detective, you investigate an incident. And what we found consistently is the only pieces of evidence that were pointing towards a person were all indicating that Dale was involved in somehow. If we're going to be charging Dale with her murder, it was going to be strongly based off of circumstantial evidence. And I absolutely knew I needed him to come in and talk to me one more time.
Dale Warner was seated in this corner with a blue chair. I mean, definitely. As attorney at the time, Larry Lee was here in this red chair. And myself and my partner were situated in chairs roughly in this area. Why wouldn't you do something to me?
My wife, I mean, my soul made it. I love her. The state police really wanted to dig in on all of the stories. What made sense? What didn't make sense?
Going into the interview, there are things he did on his phone at the time of her disappearance. He had never been directly confronted on these things, but depending on his answer would lend credibility to the fact that he was involved in Dee's disappearance. By his own statement, prior to 1030, as far as he knows, it's a normal Sunday and Dee sleeping on the couch. Dale says once he was told that Dee was nowhere to be found, he used his phone to access the farm surveillance system. Okay, so when you try to access the camera, what were you doing?
I was looking to see who was in the office. Dee was on the camera. Okay, see, look at her, Dee. I told her. Try to get it. Yeah. Okay.
And what about when you try to locate your iPhone? What purpose was that? It's like where she's at. Same thing. I'm covering what I was trying to find her iPhone.
Essentially, those items on his phone, he states that he was looking for his wife, but he's checking the cameras to see if he can find her, and he's trying to find her iPhone to see where she is. But unfortunately for him, he did all of those things before she's missing. You did all of those things before you even wanted it, but she was missing. Before she's missing? Yes.
If I looked at the camera system to see if anybody's in the office and if it works that time, so... Was there anything unusual about where the cars were parked that morning on Sunday? I mean, the Hummer was parked in front of the office, so that was unusual, especially if she wasn't in there. Dee's Hummer was typically parked behind the house. The morning she went missing, Dee's nephew said in his usual spot, he saw tracks from a JCB front end loader.
The reason that was suspicious was that Dee had been sleeping right inside that back door. So the working theory was they moved to the Hummer, so we could park the front end loader there, and he had to park the front end loader there because that was the easiest way to get the body out of the house. The JCB tracks were the Hummer's part. Who's that here, Stu? They please did an experiment where they, at a search warrant, they used the JCB, they drove it up to the porch just like Dale had done on Sunday morning, and sure enough they were able to lay the bucket right down in between the two columns behind that back door.
There's actually no doubt that you did something much of that morning. Actually no doubt. She's not dead. She's not dead. She's sitting back, so we're watching us and laughing at me.
That's not the truth, Bill. You're being dishonest. I'm not being dishonest. Dale, this is your opportunity to tell us what happened on Sunday. This is your time to send the records, right?
I told you. I guess Larry's. We're done, I guess. We're on the same bus. There's nothing else to say, guys. She's not dead. You're looking the wrong place and you're looking the wrong guy.
Okay. Please, no, you're done. There was nobody. There was no physical evidence that connected that he did it. Thank you, too.
Oh, gosh. We're having trouble finding her body, and you know, you wake up at two o'clock in the morning and you think, oh, did she go here? Did he put her here? The search warrant missing Lenaway County Woman intensified. Today, Michigan State investigators actively digging in a site as we speak.
We had to find her. Find me. Tell us how difficult it is to have this vast of an area as a crime scene. We had no physical evidence. So you're left pondering what's possible and you go with what's the most likely, which are areas of control, and those are areas that they own and the areas that they lease for farming, which is still thousands of acres.
So it's a literal needle in a haystack. Within a couple of weeks of these disappearance, Dale conducted an internet query on his iPad, and the video that he clicked on was how to bury a large thousand-gallon propane tank, which became, in part, why we were working off of the theory that she was buried based off all the land. And then when the state police took over, it got a whole new life. You saw the state police doing more searches. I mean, we would literally some days watch them dig and bring in big pieces of equipment.
We've been up here for most of the morning, and I want to give you a live look at what's happening. D Warner disappearing in 2021. This is property of D and Dale Warner. So we conducted a multi-day search with between 100 and 150 personnel, depending on the day to make sure that we searched in different levels. If she was there, we wanted to find her.
They've been pretty tight-lipped today about exactly why they are digging and what brought them here, even to Dee's family. I think that there's something that they've really been tipped off of here. I don't know what it is. We've been searching and searching and searching. I mean, I'd hired drones. We've been on foot. The state police, I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And it became very apparent we weren't finding her buried. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. In 2023, I did meet with detectives, and they walked me through this case. And at that point in time, I was convinced that Dale murdered his way.
How did you react when they said, yeah, we have enough here? We just felt like, you know, here's the next step. We were a long way from the end, but this is such a good step forward. Hey, Dale. You're under arrest in the murder of you, Warren. We're saying fine schmets.
Thank you, Kidney. You're gonna wait your fingers. I got a break. I got the call from my news director, and it was almost like you're not gonna believe it. They arrested him.
We just received the news from MSP today. That arrest has finally been made. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to be there when they put the handcuffs on him, because I knew they were down the road, but they wouldn't let it. It was like that 900-pound elephant was off of your shoulders for a second.
But Michigan State Police believe they've cracked this case, but it is far from over. Dale Warner officially charged with his wife's murder and tampering with evidence, pleading not guilty today. In any kind of an arrest, a murder arrest in Michigan is a preliminary hearing. Preliminary examination in Michigan is essentially a mini trial, just to see if there is enough probable cause to see that A, a crime was committed and B, that the defendant is the one that may have committed it. So we do hear evidence.
The hearing will determine if Dale Warner will stay on trial for the death of Dean Warner. Very shardier. Defense lawyer. She's one of the best. At the preliminary examination, the detective admitted they had no evidence at the point that she had even been murdered, let alone that Mr. Warner was purportedly the person who did it.
A nobody homicides arrest in trial is very uncommon. Without a body, this case was extremely hard. We've got one shot, and if her body's found at another date and time and a jury has found a knock, he'll see we can't come back and redo this. There was nobody, so they couldn't even say that she was dead. Were you thinking they're really going to be able to charge him? They'll really be able to get a conviction.
We have all the circumstantial evidence, but you know, you can argue that either way. It was, yeah, we had no idea. We were so scared. Breaking news in the case of Dale Warner, today a judge ruling the Lenaway County man, Will Stan trial for the murder of his wife, Dee. This is a break that the family was waiting for. It is a relief to see it happen, but she's still gone.
And they still hadn't found her. Investigators for a long portion of Dee's disappearance believe she was somewhere underground. Is there a possibility that this body is above ground? They were doing a search that day. I got a text. The detective wants to have an emergency meeting tonight.
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We are your punk rock spirit. FX is the lowdown, now streaming on Hulu. Part of the darker side of policing from a personal point, especially when you're working on violent crime, is you're at home with your wife and your kids, or you're doing family stuff, but you're always thinking about whatever you're working on. You have an idea you jotted down or you remember you have to do something. And so I lived this case for years.
The investigation focused underground for the majority of the time, but I believe investigators then, they started thinking that maybe they should take a look above ground. I had kind of up and down relationship with Greg Hardy, but at this point we run pretty good terms like a calm and good information. When we run good terms, he was very helpful. I asked them about the tanks. He calls and he said, listen Greg, he said, where does Dale Warner keep those anthydrous tanks?
And I said, well, there's some at the home farm and there's some on the Paragon farm. So investigators got a search warrant to take a look at what fertilizer tanks on Dale's property had maybe been tampered with, something that didn't come with the original tank. These tanks were approximately 30 feet long. They weighed thousands of pounds, they're very large. When I get to the Paragon road barn on that particular day, there's I think right around 13 or 14 tanks storage, kind of in conjunction with each other.
It was an open part of the barn and some stored outside all kind of parked near each other. It was Greg, diesel to brother, that had remembered Dale painting one of the fertilizer tanks on his property. I said, all I can tell you is the tank that I saw he was working on to restore it. So if you were looking for that tank, it would have fresh paint or new paint. It would have a non-factory weld on it.
And so what did you find here? There were tanks kind of scattered throughout everywhere and it wasn't until close to the end of my time at this property that I opened that barn door and I saw that one tank alone. This particular tank was painted fresh. It very clearly had a non-factory weld, was painted after this weld and then had new stickers applied to it. And a tag that says, do not use, which all those things together were suspicious to me.
Then he calls back. He said, how can we find out if there's something in the tank? I said, well, it's a ammonia, it's a gas. You'd have to be careful because it's toxic. Because the gas is so toxic, they're designed to not have any openings and so you can't see what's inside of them.
So we had to come up with a way of, if we find a tank that's of interest, how are we going to search it? I said, you know, down there's an x-ray machine at the Canadian border. If you could get those guys to do that, they radiograph trucks there so they could easily radiograph this tank. We didn't know exactly what had led investigators to that tank, but we knew it was different than the searches we've seen before. We're all wondering, why that one, what did they learn and what's inside?
They loaded it on a flatbed trailer via record service, took a detrain. When I am putting this tank on a tow truck to drive it an hour to a good x-rayed, I am zero confident that this is kind of how to anything that's beneficial to the case. But that's the job. You look, right? In when I show up, a bunch of other people come in this room, and the x-ray flashes on the screen, and the guy sitting in the chair says, there she is.
I can truly tell you that next to the birth of my children was one of the most profound moments I've had. Hello, this is a prepaid call from... Deal. So, information is really powerful in police investigations, and especially when someone's incarcerated, listening and monitoring their jail phone calls can be really important. So, after having the tank x-rayed, I called Dale's son, Jaren, and formed him of the search that we had conducted.
At the end, I just think number 34 is what their search warrant says. The tank number 34? Yep. So, they took that tank and another x-rayed or something. I'm like, what's the time?
Okay. Yeah. It's really good. Why would you care if one of your old tanks opened unless you knew what was inside of it? After years of searching underground, searching the properties, she was inside that tank the entire time.
She was found in pajamas in the tank. She was a barefoot wrapped inside of a tarp. The tank was essentially airtight, and no insects or animals could get in it, so all the things that would typically degrade a body were not able to get inside. There was much more well preserved than what I would anticipate. I got a text. The detective wants to have an emergency meeting tonight.
What did you think? Immediately I knew something was right. I knew my stomach was just in knots, and we met up, we all met up, siblings and everything. And he showed us the pictures of my mom in the tank. You're seeing pictures of your mom, deceased. How do you feel?
It was such a mixed up emotions. It was the relief that we felt because we knew that our mom didn't run away. But then to think about the reality of what happened to her was really hard. Knowing this whole time that while I was working, she's like in a tank behind me in a barn is disgusting. Well, your first year overcome with emotion and sad grief, and then there's another relief like this is going to be so much better to prove that he did it.
Well, this morning, a case that has ripped out of his mission for years. Inside the courtroom, it was high stakes, it was high tension. And it was high tech. Surveillance cameras capture the chilling moments that life on the farm with the ill-runner. This case rings at the top of all of the list imaginable, the hardest case, the oddest case.
The most difficult case, most stressful case, most interesting case that I've had. Easily. We charged it November of 2023, we didn't get to trial until February of 2026. The trial begins in Adrian, Michigan, in a small courtroom, packed shoulder to shoulder. Opening statements begin today in the murder trial of Dale Warner.
This is D. Warner. April 24, 2021, she went home to tell her husband, the defendant, with the marriage was over, she was never seen or heard from again. We anticipated a trial with dozens of witnesses, and the witnesses might know a part of the beginning, a part of the middle, and part of the end. The prosecution's theory is that there is an argument, there's a fight, there's a blow up between the two of them.
There's a physical altercation, and D loses her life that night. This marriage had no intimacy, only secrecy. The medical examiner ruled that it was a homicide by blunt force drama to the head in strangulation. When they read us the autopsy, information that was brutal. Prosecutors did a really good job of paying a timeline of what may have happened.
I think he kills her, he goes out, gets the JCB, brings it up to the house, puts her body in the bucket, takes her back into the spray barn. Prosecutors point to a safe in the spray barn, that's where they believe D's body was stored after the murder. How could he have hid her body while he was doing all these things and all these people are moving around the farm? And the obvious answer from the people's side is he put her in that safe. I'm going to show you people's exhibit 254, what is this?
That's me laying inside of the station. D. Warner's body would have fit in the safe that is in the spray barn. Then, according to prosecutors, they'll move D's body out of the safe and into the tank. I want you to understand where the cameras are and what they show.
The surveillance video is absolutely key, especially in retrospect. There's powerful testimony from a welder about everything you would need to properly open up something like a tank and then close it and weld it shut. Talking about migg welding or a wider welding. He would have used this type of welder, a migg welder. Well, here he is getting that exact welder that he had on the property.
Typically, you would use an angle grinder with an abrasive wheel. Here he is on video getting an angle grinder on Sunday afternoon. A welding mask and then probably heavy-duty welding gloves. There's Dale getting welding masks in gloves. The welding expert mentioned that you would get almost a sunburn if you weld without long sleeves.
If you did this without something on your arms, what would you expect to see? You could expect to see essentially some burn marks. This is the body camera on Monday the 26th and there's Dale's arm. And that becomes pretty pivotal because the prosecution is arguing that that's a burn from the welding. This is the spray barn here.
As you can see in the back left corner here, that is tank 34. When you get a little bit too close for his liking, he's going to start spraying us out of the barn. I was tough to see and know that we were right there and we might have been able to save that family from a lot more anguish. I'd like to walk through some of the reasonable doubts this afternoon. The defense had to completely redo their defense strategy from, we don't know where she is to, we don't know exactly who did it.
The government's speculative theory is that Mr. Warner killed Ms. Warner in the house while not leaving a single trace of physical evidence. There was no direct evidence that Mr. Warner harmed Ms. Warner.
They were trying to make the argument that there'd be every reason for him to have a piece of farm equipment. This is a guy with an active farm and he has a wife that has disappeared before and he is going on with his life. The fact that he grabbed a welder, no I don't equate to him cutting open the tank, putting his wife inside, putting it back on again. Welding it shot, painting it. The defense kept repeating that this was all circumstantial.
There's no evidence that Ms. Warner was in the safe, no blood, no hair, no DNA, absolutely nothing. Yes, she was murdered, yes she was found in a tank and their story was a deal, did not do any of that. You're the defensive club Gregory Hardy. They were asking hard questions. How do you have access to the property? What do you know about tanks?
You said you wanted them to look for a specific tank, correct? Yes. Thank you. And then once the tank was found, you told the police that you know how to cut an unhidrous tank open, right? Yes.
To me like it was more in our favor than the defense we were able to show all the things that he did to try to find him. I called anybody that I could think of. Greg was emotional during his testimony. Do you have an idea of how many people you called in this effort? I'm sure over a hundred.
It was really powerful testimony about a brother who's just done everything he possibly could to find his sister. Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to proceed with closing arguments at this point. The prosecutor does not need to have a motive to prove that the Bennett had reason to commit the crime, but he was not getting another divorce. I bet you wanted a divorce. My sure as hell don't go through no going to water. Is that worth it?
If D divorced Dale and the trucking company was actually hers, he was left with a failing farming business. I think he was very much motivated by the money, but he was going to lose. You're not here to determine if a tragedy occurred because it did. What you are here to determine is that the government has proven its case against Mr. Warner beyond a reasonable doubt.
And it didn't. We want you to return a verdict of guilty of murder and tampering with evidence. You have these 12 people that are really determining his fate. Was it convincing enough? You might think you have the best case in the world, but at the end of the day don't know what the jury is going to do.
It was almost like every emotion you feel it all at once. You're almost in disbelief. The last five years has been the hardest years by far of my life. In a case where a woman is murdered or was missing, everyone thinks the husband did it. When we were trying to get across to the jury, the lack of any direct evidence that Mr. Warner murdered Ms. Warner.
Breaking news out of Loughway County, Michigan in the murder trial of Dale Warner. The jury has reached a verdict. Members of the jury, you do say upon your oath that you find the defendant, Dale Warner. As to count one, guilty of second degree murder. As to count two, guilty of tampering with evidence.
It's not like it's just a light switch. When you've done this for five years, 365 days a year damn near 24 hours a day, it doesn't just hit you in that moment when the verdict guilty comes home. You want to cry, you want to laugh, you want to smile, you want to yell. The kids finally have some closure. We finally have answers for them.
It didn't feel real. I mean, it was really hard to really process that this is actually done. And we can move forward. You've since gotten engaged. Yes. My mom highly encouraged us to get married a long time ago.
He had it made so that my mom's birthstone is a part of the ring. It won. Today's the day. Yeah, it is Sensing Day. I took a quick look at my impact statement and tried to muster the personal fortitude to the jury.
The personal fortitude to deliver it today. This is what we've been waiting for. Now is our turn to give our peace of mind. Good morning, Your Honor. My name is Raquel and I am the mother of three of these beautiful grandchildren.
My mom was blessed to meet two of them, but my youngest will only know her through the stories we share. Her death created a pain and burden that none of us will ever fully recover from. I only hope that the only way Dale Warner is able to leave prison is in a small dark box. May God absolutely have no mercy on him whatsoever. Dale, you not only destroyed all of our lives, but also the lives of your children.
And families. Dean knew we would fight to the end and we won. And now I'm going to remove my bracelet that I've worn since D was missing because we got justice. Thank you. Alainaway County Judge handed down a sentence of up to 70 years in prison.
Right now I feel so much relief that everything's over. That was kind of the final day of this nightmare we've been living. And I'm so glad. How's your little sister? She's doing pretty well. I mean, she's an L-14 and she's a strong kid.
She lives with Dale's son in my mom's house. And then she also goes to my older sister's house. And then I can see her whenever. What do you tell her about your mom? It's always a, oh mom used to do this or, you know, mom loved this kind of food.
We just bring up anything that kind of comes to mind just to refresh her memory of my mom. I've always grieved from the very beginning. I grieved on the first day that I knew she was gone. Your life is never the same. She was a great supporter of love and family.
I wonder if it ever goes away like they're really gone. It doesn't seem possible. Dee's gone. What do you miss most about her? There's so much. Her supportiveness. Her love.
What happened to her does not define who she is. She was a strong, strong woman. And the people that knew her the most knew that they could rely on her for whatever it was. And that is the truth. She was a good person.
Dee Warner's daughter, Raquel David, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. She's asking for $100 million against their mother's killer, Dee's husband Dale. He declined to speak to us here at 2020, but his attorney tells us tonight that he plans to appeal his conviction. That's our program for tonight. Thanks so much for watching. I'm David Bure.
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