The ex-fiancé of a missing Florida mom allegedly told a friend that he wished “someone would kill this b–ch” and then offered her $2,000 for a night of sex “one last time” — just days before she vanished 15 years ago, according to unsealed documents released Monday.
Text messages detailed in an explosive 46-page arrest affidavit obtained by The Post show a deteriorating relationship between Michelle Parker, 33, and her ex, Dale Smith Jr., in the weeks leading up to her Nov. 17, 2011, disappearance after appearing on the television show, “The People’s Court.”
Smith, considered a prime suspect since the early days of the probe into her whereabouts, was arrested and charged with murder on Wednesday.
In April, a former friend came forward to reveal that roughly two weeks before Parker disappeared, Smith told him outside his condo, “I wish someone would kill this b–ch,” according to prosecutors.
Smith, then 40, tried to proposition Parker on Nov. 10, 2011, offering her $2,000 to sleep with him, according to the affidavit.
“Thought about your offer … & will have to decline,” Parker texted back.
“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 claimed he wasn’t trying to make her “feel like a whore” and simply wanted “one last time to be with you,” Parker rebuffed him again.
“Having sex for the exchange of $$$ makes me a high dollar prostitute! I can’t do it for the $$, against my morals,” she shot back.
Just seven days after the exchange, Parker disappeared after dropping off her then-3-year-old twins at Smith’s home — the same exact day the TV episode aired that showed the couple fighting over their pricey engagement ring.
Roughly 40 minutes before the episode aired, Smith allegedly texted Parker to tell her “I’m sexually frustrated lol.”
Irate, she fired back: “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.”
Parker dropped off her kids at Smith’s gated condo complex just over two hours later — and was never heard from again.
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 — and then dumped her body somewhere in the Orlando area.
Parker’s body has never been found.
Photos taken the next day show scratches across Smith’s mouth and lips, a bruised forearm and scraps to his elbows, according to court papers.
The injuries are believed to be defensive wounds inflicted by Parker as she fought for her life, according to investigators.
It is unclear why authorities never pursued probing Smith’s wounds.
Another former fiancé 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.
Inconsistencies in Smith’s timeline of events following Parker’s disappearance fueled suspicion for years.
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.”
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