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459 // Dale Williams - A Break in the Case

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this updated interview originally published in 2020, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Dale Williams's daughter Tonee Lawrence about the disappearance of her father on May 27th, 1999. For more information: http://whereisdalewilliams.net/. Tonee's social media: TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@toneelawrence. IG: https://www.instagram.com/tlaw223/. FB: https://www.facebook.com/missingdalewilliams/. Sources: https://montrosecountysheriffsoffice.com/mcso-news/arrest-made-in-cold-case-after-25-years-of-tireless-investigation/. https://www.kjct8.com/2024/10/19/timeline-dale-williams-25-year-cold-case/. https://www.montrosepress.com/free_access/after-25-years-man-accused-of-murder-in-dale-williams-disappearance/article_bda2dcb8-8cb4-11ef-89a9-43efadaf3acf.html. https://youtu.be/EIvlmxkL1rA. Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A major break in a decades old cold case out on the Western slope.

0:04.1

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation announced an arrest in the 1999 Montrose County

0:09.8

disappearance of Dale Williams.

0:11.8

Officials arrested 68 year old Dan Bishop on suspicion of first degree murder.

0:17.5

Investigators say 25 years ago, Williams and his wife helped the suspect's wife leave him and moved to a secret location in Texas.

0:26.0

Williams disappeared shortly after.

0:29.0

CBI officials believe Bishop worked with his now dead cousin to be here. Welcome back to missing. I am Tim here today alone in this intro. Don't worry

1:08.0

Lance joins us in the conversation and the conversation that we're going to play is an interview from 2020 with Tony Lawrence.

1:17.2

And Tony is the daughter of Dale Williams, who went missing from Nukla, Colorado on May 27, 1999.

1:25.6

And as you heard in that intro from ABC News 7 in Denver,

1:30.0

there has been a major break in the case.

1:32.8

And I want to read a little bit now from the website of the Montrose County Sheriff's Office.

1:38.2

Headline is Arrest Made in Cold Case after 25 years of tireless investigation.

1:44.2

On May 27, 1999, Mr Dale Williams was reported as a missing person to the Nucal Marshal's

1:49.6

office.

1:50.5

The investigation was then assumed by the Montrose County Sheriff's Office on July 4, 1999,

1:56.0

which was the same day that Mr Williams's truck was found fully submerged in the muddy waters at the confluence of the Dolores and San Miguel Rivers.

2:05.2

And since that date, numerous law enforcement agencies including the Montrose County Sheriff's

2:09.0

Office, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the FBI have been involved in this investigation.

2:14.4

And now a quote from the Montrose County Sheriff Gene R. Lillard, quote,

2:19.4

there have been countless interviews and hundreds of hours of investigation poured into this case.

2:24.5

It has taken an entire team of law enforcement, family, and concerned citizens to bring the

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