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3 days ago
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New trial date set in trial of man accused of killing Dee Warner; change of venue motion denied
A Lenawee County judge has moved back the trial of Dale Warner, who is accused of killing his wife, Dee Warner. During a motion hearing on Friday, the judge scheduled the trial to begin on Jan. 27, 2026, according to online court records. Dale Warner's trial was previously set to start on Sept. 2, 2025. The change was made at the request of Dale Warner's attorney, Mary Chartier, who cited medical reasons, according to CBS affiliate WTOL. Judge Michael Olsaver, who is overseeing the case, made rulings on several motions during Friday's hearing. He denied a change of venue motion, though the issue may "be raised again if necessary," according to court records. Chartier argued emotions of Lenawee County residents are too high for Dale Warner to get a fair trial, WTOL reported. Olsaver also denied a motion to prevent phone calls made by Dale Warner from jail from being used in the trial. He added that the defense should be given access to all jail phone records. A motion to suppress evidence laid out in two search warrants was also denied, WTOL reported. A motion to compel discovery was approved, court records say. Chartier argued her team should get more complete text message records, because what they've received so far is incomplete, WTOL reported. Dee Warner, 52, was reported missing in April 2021 after she was last seen at her home in Lenawee County. Her remains were found on Dale Warner's property in August 2024. Dale Warner was arrested in November 2023 and is charged with one count each of open homicide and tampering with evidence. He was arraigned in June 2024. The case was featured on an episode of "48 Hours" in February 2025. Note: The above video first aired on Jan. 31, 2025.
CBS News
21-05-2025
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Family of Lenawee County murder victim Dee Warner speaking on investigation
The family of Dee Warner plans to make statements to the media Wednesday regarding the investigation of her murder in Lenawee County, Michigan. Dee Warner was reported missing in April 2021 after she was last seen at her home. Her remains were found on her husband, Dale Warner's, property in August 2024. In the aftermath, her husband, Dale Warner, was arrested in November 2023 and charged with homicide and tampering with evidence. He was arraigned in June 2024 and bound over for trial. He will stand trial in September. The case has received national attention and was featured by "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in the episode "The 'No Body' Case of Dee Warner. In the most recent development, charges against her stepson, Jaron Warner, accused of tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact, were dropped in early May. CBS News Detroit will monitor the press conference and stream the presentation. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— How to watch statement from Dee Warner's family What: Family of Dee Warner speaking on status of the murder investigation. Family of Dee Warner speaking on status of the murder investigation. Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Time: 11 a.m. ET 11 a.m. ET Online stream: Live on the player above and on your mobile or streaming device ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
CBS News
14-05-2025
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Charges dropped against stepson in Dee Warner murder case
Charges against the stepson of Dee Warner, a Michigan woman whose remains were found three years after reported missing, have been dropped. CBS-affiliate WTOL in Ohio reported that Jaron Warner's Friday hearing has been canceled. He was charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact. Dee Warner was reported missing in April 2021 after she was last seen at her home in Lenawee County. Her remains were found on her husband, Dale Warner's, property in August 2024. Her husband, Dale Warnef, was arrested in November 2023 and charged with homicide and tampering with evidence. He was arraigned in June 2024 and bound over for trial. He will stand trial on Sept. 2, 2025. The case received national attention and was featured by "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in the episode "The 'No Body' Case of Dee Warner." NOTE: The video above previously aired on Jan, 31, 2025.
CBS News
03-03-2025
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Dee Warner's stepson charged with tampering with evidence as murder investigation continues
A second arrest has been made in the case of Dee Warner, a southeast Michigan woman whose 2021 disappearance and murder gained national attention. Charges have been filed against the victim's stepson, the Michigan State Police reported Monday. Jaron Dale Warner, 28, of Tecumseh, had an arraignment hearing Monday morning in Lenawee County 2A District Court on charges of tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact to a felony, police said in their statement. Jaron Warner is the son of Dee's husband, Dale Warner, who has been ordered to stand trial Sept. 2 in the case on charges of homicide and tampering with evidence. Dee Warner, age 59, was living with Dale Warner, her second husband, on a Lenawee County farm when she was last seen in April 2021. Dozens of people joined search parties, and police repeatedly searched for her. In 2022, her family filed a petition to declare her legally dead, which was granted. Remains that were later identified as Dee Warner's body were found last August on property owned by her husband Dale Warner. Michigan State Police said at the time her death was ruled a homicide. In the meantime, Dale Warner was arrested in November 2023. He was arraigned in June 2024 and bound over for trial on charges of homicide and tampering with evidence, even without the discovery of her body. The trial is slated for Sept. 2, 2025. The case recently was featured by "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in the episode "The 'No Body' Case of Dee Warner." Dale Warner has denied any involvement in his wife's disappearance, and his attorney has said that "Mr. Warner maintains his innocence." Michigan State Police consider this to be "an ongoing investigation," and ask that anyone with information on the case call the MSP Monroe post at 734-242-3500. The video above previously aired on Jan. 31, 2025.
CBS News
31-01-2025
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Billboard trolls missing Michigan woman Dee Warner's husband, suspected of her murder
Dee Warner disappeared on a Sunday morning in the spring, just as the first crops were being planted in the farmland of Lenawee County, Michigan. Warner, 52, was living on a farm with her second husband, Dale Warner, and their one child together, then 9. The Warners ran three main businesses from their farm, and Dee Warner had four adult children from her first marriage—all living on their own. Dee Warner's daughter, Rikkell Bock, lived about a half-mile from her mother's farm — close enough to see her mom's house from her own front yard. It was Bock who first noticed Dee Warner was missing, on April 25, 2021, when she came over for their weekly Sunday breakfast and found no sign of her mom at home. Both of Dee Warner's cars were on the property, and she was not responding to calls or texts, which Bock says was very unusual. As she tells "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in"The 'No Body' Case of Dee Warner,""if my mom could glue her phone to her hand, she would." Dee and Dale Warner owned a trucking business with about 15 employees. They also had a farm business, raising crops, and a chemical company that sold fertilizer and seed, all based on their rural property. Dee Warner is described by friends and family as a good businessperson — tough, generous and hard-working. Bock says she and her adult siblings had seen their mother the day before she disappeared and says Dee Warner told them she had been in a fight with two employees from the trucking business that Saturday. Bock says her mom was very upset that day, which is part of the reason they made the decision to call the sheriff's office and report her missing that Sunday. After police got that call, the Lenawee County Sheriff's Office sent a deputy out to the Warner home. Dale Warner met the deputy and told him about his wife's fight with their employees the day before. He said Dee had been upset, but that he wasn't that alarmed because he noticed her makeup bag, hair dryer and curling iron were gone. He also said his wife had been known to leave before when upset. Dale Warner told police that he thought his wife would cool off and come back home. Dee Warner's brother Gregg Hardy and his wife Shelley Hardy say they were worried that Dee Warner had been so upset that she may have harmed herself — and wondered if that was why no one could find her. Gregg Hardy says he organized about 50 people to do a foot search of the farmland around his sister's farm the weekend after she was reported missing, to see if they could find any trace of her. Their search came up empty. Gregg Hardy says on the day of that search, Dale Warner showed up on a four-wheeler and "doesn't really participate." Gregg Hardy says he soon began to fear that Dale Warner may have harmed his sister, telling Moriarty, "I was getting these, call it a gut feeling if you like, whatever you'd call it, but I was very suspicious of his mannerisms." As time passed, Gregg Hardy says his suspicion only grew. Hardy says it was about six weeks after Dee Warner had disappeared when he asked Dale Warner how he thought the investigation was going. He says Dale Warner told him he thought the search for his wife was a little slow, but OK, and Hardy says he accused Warner of lying about what happened to his wife and vowed to get him. Police had searched repeatedly for any trace of Dee Warner, but found no sign of her dead or alive, and no signs of violence. Dale Warner spoke to police many times voluntarily about his wife and allowed them to search his properties on several occasions. He would later assert, through an attorney, that he had not harmed Dee and that he had repeatedly denied harming her in his conversations with police. Gregg Hardy organized a public vigil at his farm in the fall of 2021 to publicly ask for justice and draw attention to his sister's case. At that vigil, Hardy accused Dale Warner of telling a concocted story that his sister had left on her own. Hardy told "48 Hours" that he was impatient for police to make a move. But the now former county prosecutor says he emphasized to Hardy at the time how important finding a body or similar physical evidence was and was aware of the risks of making an arrest too quickly. Three months after that vigil, Shelley Hardy was watching an episode of "48 Hours" about a case where the victim's family suspected foul play, but there was no body. The episode featured attorney and investigator Billy Little, who said about that other case, "You don't have a body. So what? You don't get to get away with murder because you're good at disposing of bodies." Gregg and Shelley Hardy say they were both moved by that statement, and wanted to find Little and see if he could help them with Dee Warner's case. Little came to Lenawee County the next month to do what he could to assist. Part of Little's help, Gregg Hardy says, was strategic: he gave Hardy advice on how to use the press to get the word out about Dee Warner's case. And Little says he did a lot of footwork — talking to potential witnesses, walking properties where Hardy thought they might find evidence, and flying drones over the land to look for clues. Part of that effort, they both say, was to make Dale Warner feel the pressure of their investigation. Soon after Little came to help, Hardy says he paid for a billboard that read, "Help Dale Find Dee," and put it up at a big intersection near the Warner home, where, Hardy says, the truck drivers from their trucking company would be sure to see it. The billboard was intended sarcastically, Little and Hardy say, since they both didn't think Dale Warner was acting like a concerned husband. Little also said the billboard was intended almost as a form of psychological pressure on Warner, and to publicly shame him for their belief that he was not doing enough to find his wife. With a community of Dee's friends and supporters, Little and Hardy continued to hold more rallies, and vigils, and lobbied to have state police take over the case from the county sheriff. Michigan State Police did take over Dee Warner's case in August 2022, but had been assisting on the investigation before that, as did the FBI. In November 2023, state police arrested Dale Warner and charged him with Dee Warner's murder. Dale Warner pleaded not guilty. At the time of that arrest, police still had not found any trace of Dee Warner. Dale Warner was bound over for trial in June of 2024 and his trial for murder is slated to begin on Sept. 2, 2025. Dale Warner and his attorney declined to speak to "48 Hours" about the case pretrial, as did the state police and the county prosecutor. Warner's attorney told "48 Hours" in an email that "Mr. Warner maintains his innocence, and we are prepared to vigorously fight for him in court and present his defense." In August 2024, soon after Dale Warner was bound over for trial, police found a major piece of physical evidence in the case. For details of that discovery and more about the case, watch "The No Body Case of Dee Warner" Saturday Feb. 1, 2025, at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount +.
