{"id":433449,"date":"2026-10-20T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433449\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:12:13","slug":"prosecutors-dale-smith-jr-bought-flight-days-before-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433449\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors: Dale Smith Jr. bought flight days before arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-8fdf64be=\"\">Less than two weeks before Dale Smith Jr. was arrested for second-degree murder connected to the 2011 disappearance and presumed death of his ex-fianc\u00e9e Michelle Parker, his son went to the Orlando Police Department to ask if his dad was still a suspect in Parker&#8217;s case, and Dale Smith Jr. had purchased a plane ticket, according to a new court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0October 20, 2026 5:35pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than two weeks before Dale Smith Jr. was arrested for second-degree murder connected to the 2011 disappearance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-433449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433449","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=433449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}