{"id":343794,"date":"2026-03-10T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-convicted-of-killing-his-wife-whose-body-was-stuffed-in-a-farm-tank-years-ago"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:59:07","slug":"man-convicted-of-killing-his-wife-whose-body-was-stuffed-in-a-farm-tank-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-convicted-of-killing-his-wife-whose-body-was-stuffed-in-a-farm-tank-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of killing his spouse whose physique was stuffed in a farm tank years in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">ADRIAN, Mich. &#8212; <\/span>A man was found guilty Tuesday of killing his wife, whose body was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/michigan-woman-missing-husband-charged-19583fa52fe1001e4dfc9984a070e359\">found in a empty farm tank<\/a> in rural Michigan in 2024, three years after she disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jurors heard evidence of a troubled marriage between Dee and Dale Warner, though defense lawyers emphasized that there was no physical evidence linking him to her death. The case was featured on real-crime podcasts and TV shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Signs and banners were posted around Lenawee County, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, declaring, \u201cJustice For Dee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dale Warner was convicted of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dee Warner, 52, disappeared in April 2021. Dale Warner was <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/michigan-woman-missing-husband-charged-3be91293878dcd99d204ffe462698145\">charged with murder<\/a> more than two years later, although investigators still had not found a body. In 2024, her remains were discovered inside a fertilizer tank. A handwritten tag on the side of the tank said, \u201cout of service\u201d and \u201cdo not fill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An autopsy showed Dee Warner was strangled and had suffered blunt force trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutor Jackie Wyse told jurors that Dale Warner could have called 911 and said, \u201cI screwed up,&#8221; when he realized what had happened but instead taped Dee Warner&#8217;s mouth and nose so she could not breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cThose were all conscious decisions,\u201d Wyse said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Defense attorney Mary Chartier said there was plenty of reasonable doubt, noting that Dale Warner had regularly talked to investigators during the search and denied hurting his wife. He worked in agriculture and trucking. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cYou are not here to judge Mr. Warner as a husband,\u201d Chartier told the jury. \u201dYou may think he was a bad husband, a not-very-attentive husband, whatever you may think of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/michigan-man-convicted-killing-wife-body-stuffed-farm-130949482\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADRIAN, Mich. &#8212; A man was found guilty Tuesday of killing his wife, whose body was found in a empty farm tank in rural Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21428,21429,21426,2719,21431,446,21427,21430,224,21432,841],"class_list":["post-343794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adrian","tag-dale-warner","tag-dee-warner","tag-detroit","tag-jackie-wyse","tag-law-crime","tag-lenawee-county","tag-mary-chartier","tag-michigan","tag-physique-magazines","tag-prosecutor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343796,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343794\/revisions\/343796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}