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Dee Warner's brother, Gregg Hardy, says he was being sarcastic when he wrote the billboard in Lenawee County, Michigan, that read "Help Dale Find Dee." Dale Warner denies he ever harmed his wife.

Updated on: April 1, 2026 / 9:38 AM EDT / CBS News

Dee Warner disappeared on a Sunday morning in the spring, just as the first crops were being planted in the farmland of Lenawee County, Michigan. Warner, 52, was living on a farm with her second husband, Dale Warner, and their one child together, then 9. The Warners ran three main businesses from their farm, and Dee Warner had four adult children from her first marriage — all living on their own.

Dee Warner's daughter, Rikkell Bock, lived about a half-mile from her mother's farm — close enough to see her mom's house from her own front yard.

It was Bock who first noticed Dee Warner was missing, on April 25, 2021, when she came over for their weekly Sunday breakfast and found no sign of her mom at home. Both of Dee Warner's cars were on the property, and she was not responding to calls or texts, which Bock says was very unusual. As she tells "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty in "The 'No Body' Case of Dee Warner ," reairing Saturday, April 4 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+, "if my mom could glue her phone to her hand, she would."

Dee and Dale Warner owned a trucking business with about 15 employees. They also had a farm business, raising crops, and a chemical company that sold fertilizer and seed, all based on their rural property. Dee Warner is described by friends and family as a good businessperson — tough, generous and hard-working.

Bock says she and her adult siblings had seen their mother the day before she disappeared and says Dee Warner told them she had been in a fight with two employees from the trucking business that Saturday. Bock says her mom was very upset that day, which is part of the reason they made the decision to call the sheriff's office and report her missing that Sunday.