LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. – Local 4 got a look inside the barn where human remains linked to the Dee Warner murder case were found over the weekend.
On Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, officials said human remains were found during a search of the Lenawee County property that belongs to Dee Warner’s husband, Dale Warner.
Dale Warner is charged with open murder and tampering with evidence in her case.
Dee Warner, 52, was reported missing on April 25, 2021. She was last seen at her home on Mugner Road in Tipton, Michigan, and there have been several unsuccessful searches since her disappearance.
Dee’s brother, Greg Hardy, showed Local 4′s Victor Williams exactly where his sister’s presumed remains were found inside a barn. He said they were in an anhydrous tank, sealed in an airtight cylinder in the dark, potentially for years.
You can see several more pictures from the scene below.
“I wasn’t here at the time that they removed the tank,” Hardy said. “But it was sitting in here separate from these other tanks that are over here.”
The family believes those remains will be positively identified as Dee Warner. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday as officials try to be 100% certain that it’s her body.
“In the dark of night, in a building that had no cameras -- slide her body in there, put the end cap back on it, and weld it completely shut,” Hardy said. “Then attach that to a chassis, paint it, even have the gall to put his logo on it to make it look like it was normal, and then took it and stored it with other tanks so it would like it was just another one of the fleet.
Dale Warner was arraigned in June and is expected back in court next month for a pretrial hearing.
“That’s so premeditated and so heinous that he deserves nothing less than murder one, no parole,” Hardy said. “He lied to his family and put them through all kinds of pain. He hid the evidence. He went to a lot of trouble to hide the evidence. He lied to the officials, investigators, repeatedly.”
Family members said this has been very difficult for Dee Warner’s 12-year-old daughter.
“It’s obviously been traumatic for her,” Hardy said. “She has a father in jail and a mother who’s dead.”
Hardy said he was the one who suggested police look inside the tanks. He said he noticed some unusual activities.
Click on this video to watch Victor’s story from Sunday night.
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