LENAWEE COUNTY, Mich. – The brother of Dee Warner broke down the steps he believes her husband followed to keep his sister’s body hidden for years.
Greg Hardy spoke to Local 4 over the weekend after police discovered human remains on the property that belongs to his late sister’s husband. Those remains have not yet been positively identified as belonging to Warner, but her family expects that will be the outcome of Tuesday’s autopsy.
Warner, 52, was reported missing in April 2021. She was last seen at her home on Mugner Road in Tipton.
Since then, police and family members have tried and failed several times to find Warner’s body. But on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, human remains were found during a search of the Lenawee County property that belongs to Dale Warner.
“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.”
He said the remains were in an anhydrous tank inside a barn. He took Local 4′s Victor Williams inside the barn and explained where the tank had been.
Hardy was the one who suggested that police search the tank. He believes he knows how his sister’s body was hidden, and he thinks Dale Warner is responsible.
“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 look like it was just another one of the fleet.”
Dale Warner is facing charges of open murder and tampering with evidence. He was arraigned in June, and a pretrial hearing is scheduled for the winter.
“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.”
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