pricey engagement ring<\/a>.<\/p>\nRoughly 40 minutes before the episode aired, Smith allegedly texted Parker to tell her \u201cI\u2019m sexually frustrated lol.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irate, she fired back: \u201cthat\u2019s your f\u2014king fault! U were never frustrated b4, even while with me\u2026 & [half] the time it wasn\u2019t me u were f\u2014king.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dale Smith Jr. is taken into custody in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 14, 2026. Orlando Police Department via AP<\/p>\n
Parker dropped off her kids at Smith\u2019s gated condo complex just over two hours later \u2014 and was never heard from again.<\/p>\n
Investigators contend he was furious with the episode and its framing of their dispute, and in a fit of rage allegedly choked Parker to death \u2014 and then dumped her body somewhere in the Orlando area.<\/p>\n
Parker\u2019s body has never been found. <\/p>\n
Photos taken the next day show scratches across Smith\u2019s mouth and lips, a bruised forearm and scraps to his elbows, according to court papers. <\/p>\n
The injuries are believed to be defensive wounds inflicted by Parker as she fought for her life, according to investigators. <\/p>\n
It is unclear why authorities never pursued probing Smith\u2019s wounds. <\/p>\n
This undated photo provided by the city of Orlando on Oct. 15, 2026, shows Michelle Parker. City of Orlando via AP<\/p>\n
Another former fianc\u00e9 of Smith claimed to detectives earlier this year that he routinely choked her to the point of passing out with his bare hands or a belt during sex and during arguments, and threatened to make her disappear.<\/p>\n
Inconsistencies in Smith\u2019s timeline of events following Parker\u2019s disappearance fueled suspicion for years.<\/p>\n
But new digital forensics technology \u2014\u00a0 allowing law enforcement to more thoroughly examine evidence on electronic devices \u2014 helped clear the way for second-degree murder charges against Smith.<\/p>\n
He initially told police in a Nov. 18, 2011, interview that Parker arrived at his condo and stayed for just 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
But re-analyzed cell phone data proved Parker arrived at Smith Jr.\u2019s home at 3:16 p.m., stayed for over an hour, and then both of their phones traveled together westward at 4:18 p.m. toward Lake Conway.<\/p>\n
When Parker\u2019s phone was located and retrieved from Lake Conway by dive teams, digital forensics revealed that all text messages up to 4:27 p.m. on Nov. 17 had been manually deleted.<\/p>\n
Records also show Smith never once called or texted Parker after her disappearance, despite telling investigators that he hoped she was just \u201claying low.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ex-fianc\u00e9 of a missing Florida mom allegedly told a friend that he wished \u201csomeone would kill this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19535,28,30,29,6888,4538,4278,20042],"class_list":["post-440144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cold-cases","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-murders","tag-us-news","tag-warrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440144","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=440144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}