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Her Body Was Hidden on the Family Farm for 3 Years... The Dee Warner Case

August 20, 2026

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Dee Warner was a force of nature—a woman who loved the glitz and glamour of getting dressed up even for a trip to the gas station, who ran a $10 million trucking company, and who told her daughter Raquel just hours before she vanished that she watched Dale "like every night and he could do something like that to me." On April 25, 2021, she disappeared from her family farm in Tipton, Michigan. Her body would not be found for over three years, hidden inside a rusty anhydrous ammonia fertilizer tank that her husband had painted and welded shut. The case ended in February 2026 with a conviction, but only because Dee's family refused to stop pushing.

A Marriage Built on Business, Not Love

Dee Hardy grew up in the rural farming community of Lenawee County, Michigan, deeply involved in 4-H and local fairs. She was described as tough, abrasive to some, but with the biggest heart once you got past her shell. After divorcing her first husband Tim Block—with whom she had four children—she married Dale Warner, a rival farmer who was, by all accounts, the opposite of her vibrant personality. "More boring than unflavored jello," as the host puts it. The marriage seemed more like a business partnership, and it was a successful one: they ran two farming operations and a trucking company that brought in roughly $10 million annually. Dee owned that trucking company outright and managed the

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What you'll learn

  • 1 Her Body Was Hidden on the Family Farm for 3 Years... The Dee Warner Case
  • 2 Main Outline
  • 3 (01:09) **Introduction & Studio Farewell** - Kendall announces this is her last recording in her current studio and previews the Dee Warner case
  • 4 (05:36) **Who Was Dee Warner** - Background on Dee's personality, family, and life before her disappearance
  • 5 (10:02) **Dee's Marriage to Dale Warner** - How Dee ended up with a man described as "more boring than unflavored jello"
  • 6 (15:40) **The Munger Property & Disappearance Timeline** - The farm where everything happened and the morning Dee vanished
  • 7 (16:42) **Raquel's Growing Concern** - The search begins as family realizes something is wrong

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Guests on this episode

Dee Warner Dale Warner

Show Notes

In April 2021, Dee Warner disappeared from her home in Lenawee County, Michigan. Her sudden disappearance immediately concerned her family, who refused to believe she had simply walked away from her life. For more than three years, they fought for answers... until Dee’s remains were finally discovered hidden inside a sealed tank on property belonging to her husband. What followed brought long-awaited answers about what happened to Dee and ultimately led to a murder conviction.

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