The Day Dee Disappeared
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Got a knock on my door. That changed my whole life that morning. You don't know what to do when somebody goes missing.
They didn't want to believe it. Dee has just disappeared. Just disappeared.
Drone team, infrared cameras, canines, zero physical evidence. She owned a farming company. A strong, independent businesswoman. They definitely both really wanted to build this big empire.
You always have to look at the spouse. Right. I hear your wife is missing. I don't know if she's missing or if she just left.
It was not uncommon for her to leave the home. Both her vehicles were still there.
Did somebody come and pick her up? There was this rumor of somebody that she might have been having an affair with. An employee is seen on the farm in the middle of the night. Very suspicious. You get word that an x-ray has been done. Yes. It was starting to become terrifying.
What the hell is going on here? It's a wholesome farm life in a safe little community where this is not supposed to happen, right?
Mystery on the farm, a frightening disappearance, and fertile ground for secrets. I'm Lester Holt, and this is Dateline.
Here's Andrea Canning with The Day Dee Disappeared.
There's a certain rhythm to farm life in Lenawee County, Michigan. Tilling the soil, planting the crops, tractors crisscrossing the fields at sunrise. Dee Warner knew that cadence by heart. She really cared about the farm.
She did. It was in her blood.
A sixth-generation farmer, 52-year-old Dee ran the sprawling farming enterprise with her husband Dale. She was hard-charging, fiery. Dee drives a Hummer. I mean, do we need to say anything else? Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, she drove a Hummer and an Escalade, so you can see her personality would go either ritzy or rugged, right?
Dee's brother, Greg Hardy, and his wife, Shelly, say she was reliable too, especially when it came to her five children. So when Dee missed a standing breakfast with her daughter, Raquel, on a Sunday morning in April 2021, the kids were alarmed.
Raquel came and said, have you seen my mom? And I said, No, she hasn't come down.
And they said, well, we can't find her anywhere. Dee's husband said he was at a loss as well. Raquel had called Dale and asked him if he knew where Dee was, and he said no. No idea? No.
What happened on the morning Dee Warner was first reported missing?
He said she was sleeping on the couch, snoring like a baby when he saw her in the morning. Greg and Shelly didn't panic at first. Dee would often get away for a day or two when she needed time to think. But when their calls went straight to voicemail...
I knew something was wrong because she would always answer me. We weren't the people, brother and sister, who chatted about the weather every day or anything like that. There was a purpose. Always a purpose. And I'm sure she saw it sometimes when I called, oh, it's Greg. But we would always answer or immediately call back.
Greg and Shelly offered to help look for her.
We started searching everywhere, every place we could possibly think of. We searched at our offices.
We came to the barns. We went back to Dee's, went through her farm.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:57
2
What happened on the morning Dee Warner was first reported missing?
3:57–15:17
3
What clues did Dee’s family find at the farmhouse that raised alarm?
15:17–17:30
4
How did initial police interviews and deputy observations shape the early investigation?
17:30–44:13
Speakers
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