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Dateline: Missing In America

MISSING: Dee Ann Warner

Dateline: Missing In America

NBC News

True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

52-year-old Dee Ann Warner was last seen at the home she shared with her husband in Franklin Township, Michigan on April 25, 2021. That Sunday, one of Dee’s daughters, Rikkell Bock, stopped by her mother’s house with her husband and daughter around 9:00 a.m., but Dee was nowhere to be found. They reported her missing that day. Rikkell, Dee’s brother Gregg, and private investigator Billy Little talk with Dateline’s Josh Mankiewicz. Dee is 5’4” and weighs 135-140 lbs. She has brown hair which, at the time of her disappearance, had blonde highlights. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office at (517) 263-0524.

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0:00.0

28-year-old Raquel Bach walked into her mom's house with her family, ready to sit down and enjoy their weekly Sunday breakfast together.

0:13.0

Except that when they arrived, Raquel's mom, 52-year-old Diane Warner, was nowhere in sight.

0:20.0

Neither was her husband Dale or their daughter, Angelina.

0:24.0

It was Sunday, April 25, 2021. It was just after 9am.

0:31.0

And Sunday is my mom and I would always go grocery shopping. So we would usually go over there, we'd have breakfast.

0:39.0

My boyfriend would go back to our house right around the corner from hers and work on our house.

0:45.0

And my mom and I would take my kids and Angelina and we'd all go grocery shopping.

0:51.0

And this was no different.

0:54.0

Without thinking too much about it, the doting daughter went ahead and took the reins, popping slices of bread into the toaster and cooking the family's meal.

1:05.0

Soon enough the sizzle of eggs in the frying pan drowned out any worry, at least for the moment.

1:14.0

Getting together as a family, this was what they did on Sundays. It was their tradition.

1:21.0

This time, without D there, something felt off.

1:28.0

I saw her one vehicle in the garage parked, but her other vehicle was parked down at her office, which is like 100 feet away.

1:39.0

So we kind of made breakfast and we drove to my house and attacked her, she didn't answer.

1:49.0

I called her phone, went straight to voicemail, which never has happened. And there was just something in my gut that told me something was really wrong.

1:58.0

Raquel checked these office, which is on the same property as the house. She wasn't there.

2:04.0

And Raquel wasn't getting any sort of response when she reached out to D.

2:09.0

I didn't know what could have happened, but I knew it probably wasn't, wasn't good.

2:21.0

This is not your typical missing person's case. The Warner story is different.

2:28.0

That's because at least one investigator is examining her disappearance as a potential murder.

2:34.0

And her family also isn't so sure they're going to find D alive.

2:39.0

That said, they're still searching, searching for what is missing.

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