The Day Dee Disappeared

On a Sunday morning in April 2021, 52-year-old Dee Warner missed a standing breakfast with her daughter Raquel. That was the first sign something was wrong. Dee, a sixth-generation farmer who drove a Hummer and an Escalade, who never went to the gas station without full makeup, who ran a multi-million dollar farming empire alongside her husband Dale, had simply vanished from their farm in Lenawee County, Michigan. Her vehicles were still there. Her phone went dark around 7 a.m. and never came back on. Her family would spend nearly five years searching for her—and the truth about what happened that night.

A Missing Woman and a Husband Who Wasn't Worried

When Deputy Austin Hall arrived at the Warner farmhouse, Dale Warner met him in the barn. "Well, I don't know if she's missing or if she just left," Dale told the deputy. He explained that Dee had been stressed over an argument with employees, had taken migraine pills, and fallen asleep on the couch. When he woke up to spray the fields, she was still there. By the time he returned, she was gone—along with an overnight bag and some beauty products. Dale seemed unconcerned. "This isn't the first time she's done this," he said. The deputy checked Dale's hands for defensive wounds and found nothing. He filed a report and left.