ADRIAN, MI (WTVB) – Witness testimony in the murder trial of Dale Warner resumed this morning, marking the tenth day of proceedings following a jury site visit to the couple’s farm properties.
Jurors heard significant testimony from a Michigan State Police K-9 handler, who detailed numerous searches for Dee Warner conducted between 2021 and 2024. The trooper noted that while he had seen anhydrous ammonia tanks on the property during early searches, he did not allow his dog near them due to the toxicity of the chemicals, a critical point as Dee’s remains were eventually found welded inside one such tank in August 2024.
Thursday’s afternoon session shifted to digital and physical evidence, featuring testimony from an FBI agent and investigators from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and Michigan State Police.
Prosecutors introduced handwritten notes found in Dale Warner’s truck that detailed the couple’s troubled marriage, including logs of their arguments and “wife’s behavior” leading up to her April 2021 disappearance.
Additionally, an FBI digital forensic examiner presented enhanced body camera audio from April 2021, though the denied a defense request to provide jurors with a transcript of the muffled recording, ruling that the audio itself would suffice as evidence.
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