Parker disappeared the say the show was telecast in 2011. Michelle Parker and Dale Smith appeared on a reality show to settle their dispute over engagement ring.
In 2011, Michelle Parker, a 33-year-old mother of three, appeared on a reality TV show, The People’s Court, along with her ex-partner Dale Smith Jr to settle their argument over the engagement ring. The disputed ring was worth $5,000 and Parker said on the show that Smith got malicious and vindictive. Smith was the last person to see her but it took the police 15 years to arrest him. Dale Smith Jr being arrested 15 years after Michelle Parker’s disappearance. Parker’s eldest child is now 26 and her twins are 18.
“He said that he wanted his ring, so I took it off, and I threw it at him,” Parker said on the show, which was telecast on November 17, 2011 — the last time Parker was ever seen. Her cellphone was recovered from a lake south of Orlando, police said. Parker’s mother said it was the happiest day after Smith was arrested, as she had been holding on to hope throughout the years. “I just knew that one day everything dark would come into the light,” she said. And her children didn’t deserve to lose a mother this way,” she said.
Parker’s body was never found. The day after her disappearance, Parker’s car was recovered on the west side of Orlando, with the decal for her tanning business scraped off its window. “And it’s been hard, let me tell you. It’s not easy to lose a child this way.
The episode was recorded earlier and the day it was shown, Parker came to Smith to drop off her twins.
