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[Music] where's mom I called her phone and it went straight to voicemail I've never seen my
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mom not answer her phone where are you what are you doing no response something's not right something wasn't
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right my name is Zach Bach I am Rael my mom was the Warner she was my mom Rael called me she was at Mom's
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house and she couldn't find her her cars were there she wasn't there there's no chance that she would not drive the
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Escalade to wherever the hell she was going not my sister my mom was a very bubbly outgoing
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person she made you laugh there wasn't a day that I was in the office where we weren't laughing she's a very very good
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businesswoman she's very smart she could be very tough you didn't want to be on her bad side she was good sister-in-law
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she spoke the truth you knew where you stood with her she was always done up her nails were done her hair was done
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her eyelashes were done always ready to go and beautiful we reported her missing at
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night Sunday night hello are you D than I hear your wife is missing well I don't know if she's missing or she
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just left that was not unusual for your mom to pack her bags and disappear for a day
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right right this isn't the first time she's done this guys the first time why is this so different because nobody knew
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where she was at I don't know until another day goes by right I'm concerned but I'm not you know alarmed yet I began
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searching and searching we were running around looking at the credit cards to see if there was a charge on it D Warner
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hasn't been seen since late April she had an alteration two of them she just really
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upset she's just a mess that day a complete mess hyperventilating and throwing up and crying the FBI searched
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Warner's Franklin Township property we've looked everywhere 56 700 Acres we all went on foot
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the first year was a struggle authorities say they are constantly following up on tips it's
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been more than 2 years since D Warner's disappearance there's not a day since she left that I don't wonder what
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happened to her when you're driving through here are you still wondering where D is yeah you know it sort of
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haunt you she was reported missing more than 3 years ago she never would have have left
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like this never never never when do you miss your mother the most when life gets
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hard do you think D Warner was murdered yes wholeheartedly absolutely we had been struggling
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because everybody said you don't have a body you don't have a body I know a no body homicide is very hard
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maybe you'll find the body maybe you won't but don't sit around wait for Santa Claus to come you got to solve
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this case [Music] [Music] I remember riding my bike or around there riding the four-wheelers around
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there just being a kid that was where I I grew up so it's home it'll always be home to me but it's home in a different
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way now it was Sunday April 25th 2021 a spring morning in the Farmland of lenaway County Michigan Raquel Bach
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drove the short distance from her house to her childhood home for her weekly breakfast with her mother D Warner
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Sundays we would go to my mom's first thing Rael says that when her mom was not there and not answering calls or texts
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it just didn't feel right if my mom could glue her phone to her hand she would if I didn't respond to a text
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message in 5 minutes I was getting another one hello one of de's cars a Hummer was parked at the Farm office
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just down the road what about your mother's car that she drove all the time the Cadillac it was parked in the garage
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so all your mother's cars are there yes and she's not responding to any kind of calls or texts
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no the fertilizer sprayer usually parked in a barn was gone and Raquel's stepfather Dale Warner was out on it
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working was that normal yeah it was pretty normal for him to work any day any time of day Raquel went
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down the road to de's brother Greg and his wife Shell's house she said we can't find her and I'm like what do you mean
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you can't find her they said her car is here we have called everybody we don't know where she's at the first thing I
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did was call her number if she was somewhere she would answer my phone call and then I text her and did you and
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nothing Rael and her Aunt Shelly went driving to look for D they returned to her house with only more questions there
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were blankets laying on the couch couch and tissues tissues everywhere everywhere there was these
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tissues they looked upstairs in the bedroom and bathroom for Clues her makeup bag was gone her curling iron and
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all of that stuff was gone later they learned de's phone and passport were missing too the feeling that I had in my
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stomach was nothing but fear Zack boach another of D's four children from her first marriage soon
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came over to join the surge he went down to the Farm office to look for any sign
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of his mom there's cameras here in the office I'll look at the cameras there was a security camera inside the office
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and a few more outside I never saw her walk to the office and never saw her drive a vehicle I didn't see
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her and there was something else out of the ordinary their 9-year-old sister Lena de and Dale's only child together
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had stayed at at her cousin's house the night before and D hadn't yet called or come to get her Lena went everywhere
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with my mom they were very very close and would she ever leave Lena behind with Dale
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never I called my siblings we met up at my house and we called the sheriff's department by now it was late in the day
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on Sunday and the lenaway County Sheriff's Office sent a deputy to talk to Dale the conversation was recorded on a
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body camera I am count sh was how are you sir good this and other body cam footage has been adjusted at times for
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clarity she was sleeping on the couch Dale told police he had last seen D that morning before he went out to work and
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then this morning around 6:00 I got up and you know she was snoring away I texted her and she didn't answer so I
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figured well she still asleep Dale seemed to believe his wife was alive and well and that she left
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intentionally while her hairc was gone her um hair Dryer's gone her makeup bag's gone I went and see all that stuff
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was a real concern he said she might be using another phone I told the other kids she's got a second phone you even
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have a phone number no it's a secret phone that she doesn't know that I know she has it Dale also told police that de
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had been upset and suffering from a migraine the night before after an argument with two of her employees I
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came home last night and she was really upset she was talking bad things far as employees and one employee decided to
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quit we got three different businesses here so the attentions are high all the time Dale and D ran three main
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businesses from their Farm Zach was their bookkeeper my mom ran essentially the office for all three businesses
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there was a trucking business with about 15 employees that Dem managed she always
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referred to it as her trucking business and there was the farm itself and a chemical company that sold fertilizer
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and Seed which was the most successful which did the best 100% the trucking company Stephanie vocal worked for Dale
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and D in describes d as a good business person tough generous and hardworking but Raquel says that running that
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trucking business was not easy for D I know that she had a hard time getting respect from some of the farmers because
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she was a woman and younger and pretty Dale told Poli that conflict between de and their employees was nothing
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new had all vacation with quite few people she's pretty W if you know my wife I I don't know
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she's in your face and tell you how it is on Saturday the day before she went missing di you texted Stephanie asking
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her how to block the driver who had quit from the company's Facebook page I told
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her how to do it that was at 4:34 on Saturday afternoon April 24 yep and then at 4:44 I said did you tell
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Zach at 7:43 I said how are you and she never answered that's the very last time you ever heard from D
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[Music] Warner D's sister-in-law Shelly wondered if the pressures had just become too
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much for D you're thinking at that point she might have taken her life I did we were worried because of everyone's
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report of her emotional Behavior she had been upset and had an argument on Friday
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and Saturday the crescendo was building up there might have been a Breaking [Music]
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Point can you think of a day when no one knew where your mother was was a full day
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no after hearing nothing from D Warner some of those closest to her feared she may have harmed
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herself and they noticed that Dale her husband didn't seem very worried she'll cool off come back
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home D told police that D when upset had a history of spending the night elsewhere she took all her bags so
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somebody picked her up and he said he thought she come back eventually I mean I don't know what else to do other wait
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a day or so and see what she shows up but the Sheriff's Office did not wait for D to show up they came out on Monday
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and Tuesday to conduct interviews and search the property on Thursday 4 days after de disappeared they searched the
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farm again and Dale agreed to talk to them at length at the kitchen table start went out on Saturday morning
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Dale now told investigators that he and D had had a fight on Saturday he said she had accused him of talking about her
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behind her back to the employees she had fought with which Dale denied and she hang up the phone and I had no more
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contact with her the rest of the day I tried calling her several times and she wouldn't answer he said he didn't talk
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to D again until that evening at home when their fight continued she says you don't care about me nobody
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cares about me what does it matter if I'm even here Dale and D have been Partners in
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life and business since they started their first company together in 2005 the year before they got married was this a
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love match did you feel that way no she had a desire for Success yes I believe that's what her attraction was I really
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do they weren't an obvious pair de's family and friends say she loved to have fun dress up go out and dance Dale
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they say just seemed to work a lot I don't know what she's seen in him I really don't he doesn't like to do things with
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her I went on a cruise with her because he didn't want to go Dale was fairly quiet kind of distant from all of us
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kids when he did communicate it was usually he kind of likeed to poke at people where he knew would hurt the
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worst Rael says Dale help feed de's insecurities I don't think she ever felt good enough like she felt like she had
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to prove constantly everything in her life her looks her her money her businesses everything de's family later
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learned she had been having an affair it didn't surprise them they said given the
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state of her marriage but police say her Affair partner was out of town the weekend she went missing
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and could not have had anything to do with the case a week after her disappearance de's
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brother Greg organized a search of the land around her home we all went on foot and we walked
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probably 5 six 700 Acres wow we we came up with zero by now de's family was growing
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suspicious of Dale on the day D went missing Dale told each of them what happened but they say
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they all heard slightly different versions she had a bad migraine headache she was laying on the floor he gave her
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massage she went to sleep he picked her up and put her on the couch about 12:30 he got up around 6 6:30 he left but she
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was snoring on the couch Zach says Dale told him he had had a fight with d he said that they had a
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really big fight the night before but Raquel says Dale told her the fight was no big deal he said that they had a
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little fight the night before and she was all mad and she won't answer him now and there was another odd detail in the
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story Dale told de's family and police that Sunday the only thing that's really strange too is this time
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she put her wedding ring in my desk yeah she's never done that before Rael Zach and Greg all say he
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showed them that ring on Sunday too seeming to offer it as proof that D had left intentionally and maybe for
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good but Greg says that ring is worth as much as $40,000 and leaving it behind didn't
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sound like d That's Not my sister Not only would she not give him the wedding ring back she probably would have thrown
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a Molotov cocktail in the house on her way out as time passed the family's suspicions that Dale had harmed his wife
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only grew about 6 weeks after d went missing Greg says he confronted Dale about how
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he thought the investigation was progressing I asked him Point Blank Dale what do you think about your wife
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still missing she just disappeared under thin air and he said to me well it it could be a little faster but I think
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they're doing a good job and that's when I I told him I said you know what you're
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a liar and uh and I told him I'll get you you told him that yeah but believing d had something to do
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with D's disappearance was very different from being able to prove it the Michigan State Police and the FBI
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helped the county sheriff conduct a large scale search of their properties again in October but there was still no
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sign of D alive or dead we had been struggling because everybody said you don't have a body you don't have a body
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in February 2022 10 months after dia missing Shelly was watching an episode of 48 Hours featuring an investigator
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named Billy little you don't have a body so what you don't get to get away with murder because you're good at disposing
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of bodies so I thought oh my gosh I I got to have Greg see this so he watched it and immediately when he said that he
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said give me that guy's number [Music] [Music] every time you go by here does it hurt a
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little bit it hurts a lot every time Greg Hardy was convinced Dale Warner was behind his sister's disappearance
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did she love living here she did although the Sheriff's Office had conducted at least seven searches and
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interviewed Dale several times Greg was growing impatient by what he saw as a lack of progress Authority says Greg
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told him that without a body it would be difficult to charge Dale with murder which is why Greg called Billy little
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maybe you'll find the body maybe you won't but don't sit around wait for Santa Claus to come you got to solve
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this case Missouri based attorney and investigator Billy little made his first trip to lenaway county in the spring of
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2022 my goal is always to just discover the truth find out what happened the nice thing about the truth is it doesn't
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have a side Billy little got to work on his own investigation and learned from de's family that the couple argued
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frequently especially about money this was not a happy marriage a marriage of Endless
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Love de's adult children told him their mom had often talked about divorce but that she didn't want to split custody of
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their little sister Lena with Dale still the day before de disappeared they say something had changed had you really
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seen your mother like that before upset yes but this was just very different she was like almost calm
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de's kids say that she had finally had enough and was going to tell Dale that night she wanted to sell the profitable
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trucking business and end her marriage this was de's life why did she want to sell the business because it had become
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too difficult emotionally and personally for her that's how bad the marriage had
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gotten Greg told Billy little that he thought Dale was moving money between the businesses after d disappeared Greg
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had already filed a civil suit to protect D's interests and to get more information about what Dale was doing
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call it gut feeling if you'd like whatever you'd call it in court documents Dale says he did move money on
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the advice of professionals the more Billy little learned he says the more he liked the
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family became convinced that D was no longer alive the evidence that she's dead is the absence of evidence that
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she's alive no surveillance cameras No Electronic signature her phone's not found her bank accounts were never
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accessed cash wasn't taken from the house even the ring she didn't even take that Greg and Billy little tried to
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increase the pressure on Dale friends had started a social media campaign called Justice for D and Greg
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paid for this billboard that he says he wrote sarcastically saying Help Dale find D it went up at a big intersection
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near Dale's Farm where Greg says drivers from the trucking company would be sure
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to see it every day helped Dale find D um it was part of almost psychological operations but little says he and Greg
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were mostly focused on trying to find EV to help build a murder case without a body you got a lot of equipment you got
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a lot of chemicals there are a lot of ways to dispose of a body on a farm and they continue to search
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relentlessly for any trace of D you can see there's a silo right over there that's the location of where the
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buildings were this property about 3 miles from D and's home is one of the places that
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stood out to Greg 6 months after d disappeared there was a fire where the old farmhouse used to be and Greg says
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the neighbors told him they thought Dale who owned the property with d had set that fire the fire was determined to be
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a controlled burn which are common in the area police searched this site in October
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2021 just a few days after that fire it's not known what if anything they learned Greg and Billy little came here
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themselves the next year we use a drone to fly not only this site but every site
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we could find around here we flew a couple thousand acres of Drone footage they found nothing conclusive
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but that Old Farm was just one site they thought was suspicious there's basically three or
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four major sites that bother me there was a field near rael's house that Dale had farmed which one where it's right
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around the corner here and another field Two Towns over that Dale had access to and many more places Greg wanted
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police to check further and isn't the really hard part about this Greg is there's just so many places there are so
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many places in August 2022 the Michigan State Police took over D's Cas Greg and Billy little had pushed for this because
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they say the state police had more experience and resources than the county sheriff okay and uh what do you do after
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that the house after the state police took over the case they interviewed Dale again and
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pressed him on his story Dale told them that the argument with that employee just before D disappeared was partly
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about D taking money from the business he said he called her out I know which you knew him it's been taking this money
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to know you a new this she been hang she inv anymore but police did not have evidence
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that D had stolen money in September the family filed another suit to have D Warner declared legally dead Greg says
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he wanted to be able to file a wrongful death suit against Dale one day the family waited for news on the criminal
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case and then it was pretty crazy because we had a meeting with the prosecutor the same day
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and she gave me no indication on November 21st 2023 2 and a half years after d Warner went missing
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the news came that her husband Dale was under arrest Stephanie Was preparing for her
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mother's funeral when she got the call rael's boyfriend called me and he said Dale was arrested for
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murder and I fell to my knees at the funeral home just so happy Dale Warner was charged with the
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murder of his wife de Mr Warner does enter plead not guilty he pleaded not guilty and de's family BRAC themselves
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for a long legal battle ahead however long it took we wouldn't stop stop fighting you had to
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testify were you nervous yeah I mean all you do is tell the truth so that's what
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I kept telling myself I'm May 1st 2024 just a little more than 3 years after d Warner
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disappeared her friends and family gathered here at the lenaway County District Court for the first day of Dale
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Warner's preliminary hearing all right it would be up to judge Anna fresh hour to decide if the case should move to
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trial I was worried because there is so little physical evidence there is nobody there are no
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body parts been recently declared dead in civil court but Dale Warner's defense attorney Mary sharder said this was a
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fact prosecutors would need to establish themselves in the criminal case whether
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Miss Warner is dead is something that the the government needs to prove raise your right hand please do you swear to
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tell the truth but the state was determined to show that while there was no body there was also no evidence that
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D was still alive since April 24th 2021 one have you seen D Warner no have you heard from D Warner no in the months
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leading up to D going missing and prosecutor Jackie wise worked to show there was no evidence that D had taken
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off on her own she's got a second phone she asked Stephanie vocal about that secret phone that Dale claimed his wife
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had did she ever discuss getting a second phone with you she did if she had asked me to look uh into pricing and
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trying to find one for her yes okay so up until April 25th 2021 did you ever purchase that phone no could she have
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bought the phone on her own yeah she could have bought it on her own but she would have had somebody else set it
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up she was not techsavvy people would call Daniel Jor Michigan state police detective Daniel dror is the lead
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investigator on this case you swear to tell the truth he testified about the exhaustive searches law enforcement did
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to find any trace of activity from D over the three years she had been missing we did search warrants for uh
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Healthcare Records phone records we searched numerous Vehicles we got records for social media we did uh
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several land searches all their searches came up empty but de's daughter Raquel had noticed something curious at the
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Warner home on the the stand she said that on the day her mother disappeared she saw tire tracks by the back of the
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house there were two tracks that led up to the side and glass door there were no security cameras
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pointed at this part of the property but the prosecution suggested that the tracks Raquel saw were left by Dale
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using the Farm's JCB front end loader to remove de's body from their home when parking the front end loader the JCB in
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this spot the bucket attached to it fits between those two pillars and you can set it on the deck up against the back
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door remember Dale said his wife was asleep in the living room when he left that morning close to those sliding
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doors didn't see any house you still sleeping okay in his 2022 interview with police Dale had an explanation for those
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tracks he said he thought he used the loader to go back to the house and get his worksheet for the sprayer at around
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6:30 a.m. I think I had to run and grab my dam sheet my load sheet I don't remember for sure I come got to uh jcv
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the loader pull her on by the house and I run in I had to grab something out of the house I R back out got Lo back back
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up no evidence that Miss Warner is dead and no evidence that she was murdered was found correct yes ma'am the defense
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emphasized there was no evidence Dale Warner had anything to do with these disappearance and in fact his statements
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about what he was doing that morning were supported by security videos around the farm the videos played in court show
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Dale at 700 a.m. using that frontend loader at 7:45 a.m. police say he text D going to be sprain call you later he is
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seen 3 minutes later driving a sprayer onto the road and returning at 8:13 a.m. so you had the sprayer records for the
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John Deere and then did you actually even do a sprayer reenactment we did yes ma'am consistent with what Mr Warner
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said right consistent with the time that occurred on that morning yes the defense also argued that Dale
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had not acted like a guilty man are you Dale he allowed police to search his properties and spoke to them many times
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after de disappeared only parts of a few of those interviews were played in court but his
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attorney said that Dale had repeatedly denied harming D of all the phone calls and interviews
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with Mr Warner he never once said I he harmed his wife correct correct he was always adamant that he did not
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correct yes over and over the defense underscored the lack of physical evidence in the case do you have a
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murder weapon in this case no ma'am big pool of blood anything like like that no
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we have no forensic evidence of that nature no me they hone in on Mr Warner from the beginning in her final
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statement to the judge Mary chartier argues that there is no basis for the charges if he murdered his wife where on
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Earth is Ms Warner since 425 2021 nobody has heard from or seen D Warner prosecutor Jackie wise maintain
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that the state's case was strong all we're required to prove at this stage is pro cause to believe that Dale Warner
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killed D Warner and probable cause standard has been met the decision was now with the judge and D's supporters
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were worried would Dale now face the murder charge at trial or would he walk out as a free
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man the thought of him getting out was just scary do we have enough [Music] rise please how nervous were you before
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the judge issues the ruling so it was horrible it was so horrible I felt like I could just
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curl open a ball and GH on June 7th 2024 judge Anna fresh hour returned to court with her decision she first spoke
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about d d Warner was a woman with a big heart and a temper she cared for her children and grandchildren and
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employes there was nothing in the evidence that suggested she would disappear intentionally especially from
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her children and there was nothing she heard the judge said that made her feel differently the statements by Dale
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Warner of a secret phone she's got a sa phone and someone coming to pick up D Warner she's with someone somewhere
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we're not supported by any facts or evidence in this case but there was enough evidence she said to believe that
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D Warner was dead and that her husband was likely the one behind it there's probable cause that D Warner died by
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homicide at the hands of the defendant Dale Warner all right this is reality they think
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that there's enough evidence that he killed our mom to go to trial Dale Warner has been ordered to stand trial
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for the murder of his wife but Billy little knows the real work is still ahead my fear for getting past a
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preliminary hearing was probably a one out of 10 um my fear of getting a conviction at trial is probably an eight
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out of 10 it's a by bar yeah law enforcement was still searching for physical evidence and in August 2024
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2 months after that preliminary hearing concluded that's exactly what they found breaking news in the case of D
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Warner D's family heard about it first I received a a message that said we need to have an emergency meeting with the
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detectives they met detectives at Greg and chell's farm police told them they had gone back to a property that Dal and
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de owned and taken away a large metal tank that was used to store fertilizer according to a search warrant
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that tank had a non-factory weld on the back and a sign on it that said out of service do not
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fill when the tank was scanned investigators finally found what they had been looking for it was my mom well
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it was a body in a tank it took just days authorities say to confirm that the body inside that tank was D
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Warner her death was ruled a homicide and how did she die uh they're not sharing that with me authorities are not
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granting any interviews about this case before the trial but that warrant also says that security video from the day D
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was reported missing showed Dale in one of the farm buildings searching for something near the welding equipment for
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3 years police have been looking for de's body underg ground and now they had come to believe that she might have been
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concealed above ground the tank was in this agricultural storage building right behind
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me and was the cylinder right in here yeah it was parked here so Dale would have access to all this he
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did Greg says he has no doubt now that Dale killed D and hit her body all these things point in one single Direction
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clearly without any question and that's a Dale that's correct Dale's defense attorney declined to speak to 48 Hours
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on camera but she told us that Dale maintains his innocence and said in this email they're prepared to vigorously
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fight for him in court and present his defense isn't it likely that Dale's going to argue well that was a cylinder
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sitting out in a barn anybody had access to that cylinder someone could have come
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into his own barn and put your mom absolutely I mean he he can say anything Raquel says finding her mom's
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body after these three long long years gave the family A sense of peace I wanted to shout from the rooftops to
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everybody that she didn't leave us willingly de's family laid her to rest in a private burial soon after her body
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was identified her daughter Lena now 12 was with them the one thing that she knows for sure that was her mother there
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that her mother didn't leave her it was real it's like you get hit in the stomach every time I miss her laughter
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and her comfort you miss her very much I miss her every day Raquel and Zach say they miss their
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mother deeply and that her death has changed them in profound ways I now three years
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sober and shortly after she went missing I started my own real estate company I stopped being scared of failing on
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something cuz there was nothing left to lose he's my mom's Spirit very hardworking and driven
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and determined your children will grow up hearing about D yeah what will you tell
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them about your mother oh my mom enjoyed being a grandma so [Music] much they will always remember how she
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would have been there my mom would have been there for everything [Music] CBS next Saturday a young girl found
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dead in a swamp did this look like an accident or something else something entirely different a decades old mystery
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with a surprising answer oh no oh no I never would have guessed how this ended 48 hours is all new CBS next Saturday
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