The ex-fiancé of a missing Florida mother allegedly told a friend he wished “someone would kill this b–ch” before offering her $2,000 for sex “one last time,” according to newly unsealed documents released Monday. The statements came just days before she disappeared 15 years ago.
Text messages included in a 46-page arrest affidavit obtained by The Post reveal the relationship between 33-year-old Michelle Parker and her former fiancé, Dale Smith Jr., had sharply deteriorated in the weeks before her Nov. 17, 2011, disappearance. Parker vanished after appearing with Smith on the television program “The People’s Court.”
Smith, who had been considered a leading suspect since the investigation began, was arrested and charged with murder on Wednesday.
According to prosecutors, a former friend came forward in April and said Smith told him outside his condominium roughly two weeks before Parker disappeared, “I wish someone would kill this b–ch.”
The affidavit states that Smith, who was 40 at the time, tried to persuade Parker to have sex with him on Nov. 10, 2011, offering her $2,000.
“Thought about your offer … & will have to decline,” Parker replied by text.
“I’d rather have a personal legal loan, than feel like a whore. I can’t do it. I won’t!!!! It’s not ethical, or right.”
When Smith insisted he was not trying to make her “feel like a whore” and said he simply wanted “one last time to be with you,” Parker rejected the proposition again.
“Having sex for the exchange of $$$ makes me a high dollar prostitute! I can’t do it for the $$, against my morals,” she responded.
Parker disappeared exactly one week later, after dropping off her then-3-year-old twins at Smith’s home. It was also the day an episode of “The People’s Court” aired footage of the couple arguing over their expensive engagement ring.
About 40 minutes before the episode aired, Smith allegedly texted Parker: “I’m sexually frustrated lol.”
Parker responded angrily: “that’s your f—king fault! U were never frustrated b4, even while with me… & [half] the time it wasn’t me u were f—king.”
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A little more than two hours later, Parker left her children at Smith’s gated condominium complex. She was never heard from again.
Investigators allege Smith was enraged by the televised dispute and its portrayal of their relationship. They contend he choked Parker to death in a fit of anger before disposing of her body somewhere in the Orlando area.
Parker’s body has never been recovered.
Court documents say photographs taken the following day showed scratches around Smith’s mouth and lips, a bruised forearm and abrasions on his elbows.
Investigators believe Parker inflicted the injuries while fighting for her life, describing them as defensive wounds.
It remains unclear why authorities did not previously conduct a more extensive investigation into Smith’s injuries.
Earlier this year, another former fiancé told detectives that Smith regularly choked her with his bare hands or a belt until she lost consciousness, both during sex and arguments. She also alleged that he threatened to make her disappear.
Suspicion surrounding Smith persisted for years, fueled in part by inconsistencies in his account of what happened after Parker vanished.
But new digital forensics technology — allowing law enforcement to more thoroughly examine evidence on electronic devices — helped clear the way for second-degree murder charges against Smith.
He initially told police in a Nov. 18, 2011, interview that Parker arrived at his condo and stayed for just 10 minutes.
But re-analyzed cell phone data proved Parker arrived at Smith Jr.’s 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.
When Parker’s 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.
Records also show Smith never once called or texted Parker after her disappearance, despite telling investigators that he hoped she was just “laying low.”