Disappearance of LeeAnna Warner

Over the years, the police have received more than 1700 leads; however, with very little evidence to go off, they have never had a concrete suspect.

As of 2023, LeeAnna has not been found and her case remains unsolved.

The Warner family includes Tiffany Kaelin Whittaker, who preferred to go by Kaelin Whittaker, Christopher Warner, and their daughter LeeAnna Warner.

LeeAnna's parents had both previously been divorced.

Christopher and Kaelin met and moved in with one another towards the end of 1996, and Kaelin gave birth to LeeAnna on the 21 January 1998.

The Warners had only moved to Chisholm a few months prior to LeeAnna's disappearance.

LeeAnna was described as being an outgoing, friendly and very brave child, with survival instincts that were considered to be quite advanced for her age.

She enjoyed playing with dolls, riding her bike, and spending time with her family.

LeeAnna Warner was a young girl who disappeared from the city of Chisholm, Minnesota, on June 14, 2003, in a suspected abduction and murder.

On the day of her disappearance, LeeAnna was last seen walking home from a friend's house between 5:00 and 5:15 p.m. She was last spotted walking on southwest Second or Third Street.

At the time of her disappearance, LeeAnna was 5 years old.

Although there is no concrete evidence that LeeAnna was kidnapped, the police argue that it is the more realistic option, believing that they would have found her if she had simply wandered off.

Kaelin also was charged for a hit and run for hitting Christopher with her car in October of 2003.

Kaelin died on December 10, 2022.

On June 14, 2003, LeeAnna was last seen walking barefoot home from her friend's house, which was approximately a block and a half away from her own home.

Kaelin Warner informed the authorities that they had just returned home from the Side Lake Rummage Sale.

Despite Kaelin's protests that LeeAnna needed to rest, her daughter decided that she wanted to go play with her friend, who lived only a few streets away.

Kaelin gave her permission to go as long as LeeAnna was home by 5 p.m.

LeeAnna made the commute to her friend's house at 4:30 p.m., a short walk that her parents say she had done many times on her own.

However, upon her arrival it was apparent that there was no one at home at her friend's place, so she decided to turn around and go home.

LeeAnna was last seen walking on southwest Second or Third Street, between 5:00 and 5:15 p.m.

By 5 p.m. LeeAnna had not returned home and her mother began to panic.

At around 5:30 pm Kaelin began the search for her daughter, enlisting the help of people in the neighborhood.

Parents and children from the surrounding suburbs gathered together to search for LeeAnna.

By 9.00 p.m., despite the extensive search party, there had still been no sighting of LeeAnna.

It was at this stage that Kaelin and Chris reported their daughter missing to the local police.

At the time of her disappearance, LeeAnna stood between 3 ft and 3 ft, and weighed approximately 50 lb. She is described as being a petite,

Caucasian female, with brown hair.

Her hair was cut into a short bob cut at the time of her disappearance.

She had dark brown eyes.

LeeAnna has two main distinguishing characteristics, one being the mole above her left ankle and the other being a dimple on her left shoulder.

The last thing that LeeAnna was seen wearing was a sleeveless blue denim dress (some sources state a denim shirt) with a belt, orange underwear, a flower earring with a red garnet in her right ear, and no shoes or socks.

The Chisholm Police Department arrived on the scene shortly after they received the phone call from the Warner family.

Another search party was sent out, this time including the aid of the authorities.

A combination of police, firefighters, local volunteers and expert trackers with bloodhounds gathered to search the town.

They checked garages, barns, sheds and abandoned iron ore mines in the hopes that LeeAnna had simply wandered off and gotten lost.

The group searched for over 48 hours but were unable to find anything that hinted at what happened to LeeAnna.

In the weeks following her disappearance, authorities held an extensive search that included helicopters and bloodhounds, but by the end of the month they were not any closer to finding LeeAnna.

A month after LeeAnna vanished, a local townsperson came across a child's footprints near Longyear Lake, the lake LeeAnna was at with her mother on the day of her disappearance.

The Chisholm Police Department had the lake drained in an attempt to locate LeeAnna or her body, but they found no other evidence of her being there.