Michigan man found guilty of killing wife whose body was discovered in fertilizer tank

A Michigan antheral was recovered blameworthy of sidesplitting his woman aft her remains were discovered wrong a workplace fertilizer tank, bringing a yearslong, nationally watched lawsuit to a close.

Dale Warner was convicted by a assemblage connected Tuesday of second-degree execution and tampering with evidence.

Warner was charged with execution successful 2023, much than 2 years aft his wife, Dee Warner, 52, went missing from her location successful Franklin Township successful April 2021.

Investigators did not find her assemblage until 2024, erstwhile her remains were located successful agrarian Michigan wrong a fertilizer tank, which had a tag speechmaking "out of service" and "do not fill."

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Dale Warner was convicted of second-degree execution and tampering with grounds successful the decease of his wife, Dee Warner, whose remains were recovered successful a fertilizer vessel successful agrarian Michigan. (Jacob Hamilton/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP, File))

During the trial, defence attorneys argued determination was nary carnal grounds tying Warner to his wife's death.

An autopsy showed Dee Warner was strangled and suffered blunt unit trauma.

Her disappearance and execution proceedings received wide attention, including connected true-crime podcasts and TV shows.

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Dale Warner was recovered blameworthy by a assemblage successful the 2021 sidesplitting of his wife, Dee Warner, aft her remains were discovered successful 2024.

"Justice for Dee" signs and banners were hung astir Lenawee County, astir 70 miles southwest of Detroit.

Prosecutors described a stressed matrimony betwixt Dee and Dale Warner, though the defence squad argued that was irrelevant.

Prosecutor Jackie Wyse argued successful tribunal that Dale Warner could person called 911 and said, "I screwed up," aft realizing what happened to his wife, but past taped her rima and nose, preventing her from breathing.

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Dee Warner, 52, went missing from her Franklin Township location successful April 2021. Her remains were located 3 years aboriginal successful agrarian Michigan. (Facebook/Dee Warner)

"Those were each conscious decisions," Wyse said.

Meanwhile, defence lawyer Mary Chartier argued determination was tenable uncertainty successful the case.

She said that Dale Warner denied hurting his woman and cooperated with investigators during the search.

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"You are not present to justice Mr. Warner arsenic a husband," Chartier said during the trial. "You whitethorn deliberation helium was a atrocious husband, a not-very-attentive husband, immoderate you whitethorn deliberation of him."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.