{"id":428753,"date":"2026-10-15T18:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:28:24","slug":"orlando-police-arrest-ex-fiance-in-2011-disappearance-of-michelle-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428753\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando police arrest ex-fianc\u00e9 in 2011 disappearance of Michelle Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Orlando police arrested the ex-fianc\u00e9 of Michelle Parker on Wednesday in connection with her disappearance 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dale Smith Jr. was arrested on a second-degree murder charge after new evidence came to light over the past year, according to Orlando police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Orlando police said new technology allowed investigators to retest existing evidence in the case, including vehicles, electronic devices and other materials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/17\/arrest-made-unsolved-1999-sarasota-murder-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/02\/17\/arrest-made-unsolved-1999-sarasota-murder-case\/\">Arrest made in unsolved 1999 Sarasota murder case<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith was always a person of interest after Parker disappeared, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pair appeared on the reality TV show \u201cThe People\u2019s Court.\u201d Hours later, Parker was last seen dropping off her then-3-year-old twins at Smith\u2019s condo before heading to work, according to police. She has never been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Orlando police said all of the evidence points to Smith, even though his ex-fianc\u00e9e\u2019s body has never been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smith\u2019s attorney said his client is innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Orlando police arrested the ex-fianc\u00e9 of Michelle Parker on Wednesday in connection with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[168489,168492,168252,139,141,140,168490,168491],"class_list":["post-428753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-dale-smith-jr-arrest","tag-michelle-parker-case-new-evidence","tag-michelle-parker-disappearance","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-murder-charge","tag-the-peoples-court-missing-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}