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Investigative Attorney Demands Arrest in Dee Ann Warner’s Missing Person Case
The clock is ticking
It has been a year and a half since Dee Ann Warner vanished from her rural home in Tecumseh, Michigan. On April 24, 2021, Dee planned to tell her husband, Dale, she wanted a divorce. She had four adult children from a previous marriage and a nine-year-old daughter with Dale. A friend picked up Dale and Dee’s daughter for an overnight stay to shield the little girl from what was bound to be an emotional scene.
The next morning, Dale Warner claims Dee was sleeping on the couch when he left to work on their farm at 6 AM. Three hours later, one of Dee’s adult daughters and her family came over for their usual Sunday breakfast and Dee was gone. Without a vehicle. Without tapping into her bank account or using credit cards. Without being seen on any of the security cameras surrounding her home and office. Her cellphone was dead. No one heard from her. Dee was just … gone.
Since then, her family has been seeking answers. They insist she didn’t just leave. She never would have left her daughter. They don’t believe she is alive and are determined to get justice. They have held vigils. A rally. Rented a billboard. Spoken to media. Asked the public for help. The only one who seems unconcerned about Dee’s whereabouts is Dale, who claims she left him and took off for Jamaica, or maybe Cancun. After all, she left her $50,000 diamond wedding ring — he found it on his desk the day she was reported missing.
Her family’s hopes were buoyed when nationally recognized investigative attorney, Billy Little, Jr., took on the case pro bono in March 2022. “I have spent hundreds of hours interviewing witnesses and sifting through paperwork,” Little said. “I don’t jump to conclusions. I only look at the facts.”
Little turned his findings over to Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office and continued to dig up evidence. Sadly, local authorities didn’t take action and eventually turned the case over to Michigan State Police in early August 2022. After three months, Michigan State Police still haven’t made an arrest.
