Talking Dateline: The Day Dee Disappeared
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Hi, everybody. I'm Josh Mankiewicz, and we're all here to play Password. Wait, sorry, different program. I'm Josh Mankiewicz and we're talking Dateline today with Andrea. Hi, Andrea.
Hey, Josh.
So we're here to talk about Andrea's episode, which is called The Day Dee Disappeared, which is actually one of the very few Dateline stories that two Dateline correspondents covered. These two, both of us.
You, for Missing in America, and me.
For TV, yes. Now, if you've not seen this episode, you can watch it on Peacock. You can listen to it on the Dateline podcast feed and then come back here. And then later, we have an extra clip about a psychics theory. about what might have happened to Dee Warner. But first, let's talk Dateline. Now, for anybody who did not see the broadcast, here's what you need to know. The victim was Dee Warner, and she was a successful farmer and businesswoman. She was reported missing in April of 2021. Now, from very early on, investigators suspected her husband, Dale, had killed her. And they ended up arresting him in November of 2023, even though they had not found Dee's body. Her body was found much later, and they found it on the property hidden in a fertilizer tank.
Dale ended up being convicted at trial, and he was sentenced to 70 years behind bars. So, you know, one of the things that I thought was really interesting about this when I was looking at it for Missing in America is, you know, It seemed impossible to imagine that Dee Warner was not on that property somewhere. I mean, everything she had was there. Her car was there. Like, she didn't just go away. She was somewhere on that property. It certainly seemed that way from the beginning.
That was the thought of most people close to the case and – So one person from law enforcement told us, and we didn't include this in the show, but that they had actually had an FBI profiler looking at the case at one point who said that they believed that Dee was somewhere on the property and likely buried. So the buried part was not accurate, of course, but what went into this theory by the FBI certainly panned out.
So when I was first working on this story, I heard about this giant property on which Dee was missing, because it's not just the buildings there, but obviously many, many, many more acres around it. Yeah, it's huge. When I saw the farm, I mean, it looks like a farm like out of a movie. And I sort of didn't think of it as sort of that pristine and camera ready. It's interesting what your mind does, because when I was hearing about it on Missing in America, I was like, this is some, like, giant sprawling property where the buildings are all a couple of miles apart. But that's not true. It's all kind of the working part of it is actually concentrated, and then the fields are spread out around it.
Yeah, acres and acres and acres of land. I mean, and it's beautifully kept, as you say, beautifully.
And all of that had to be searched because nobody knew where she was. But they strongly believed she was out there somewhere.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:38
2
What happened when Dee Warner was first reported missing and who did investigators suspect?
5:38–15:50
3
Why did early searches focus on the Warner property and what made the farm hard to search?
15:50–22:48
4
How did investigators discover the fertilizer tank and why was it suspicious?
22:48–30:05
5
What evidence tied Dale Warner to Dee’s disappearance and how did his behavior raise red flags?
30:05–32:20
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