Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
Missing Person Photos
Michelle Loree Parker
Parker, date, approximate 2011; Parker's necklace; Parker's Hummer; Dale Smith
Date Missing 11/17/2011
Missing From
Orlando, Florida
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
White
Date of Birth 11/20/1978 (43)
Age 32 years old
Height and Weight 5'5 - 5'7, 125 - 135 pounds
Clothing/Jewelry Description A white t-shirt, a blue Florida Gators hooded zip-up jacket, blue jeans, flip-flops, a silver-colored watch and a large cross necklace set with artificial diamonds. A photo of the necklace is posted with this summary.
Medical Conditions Parker has a heart condition.
Associated Vehicle(s) Black 2007 Hummer HU3 with the Florida license plate number AWGM26 (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Brown hair, brown eyes. Parker has a burn scar on her left arm. She has the following tattoos: angel wings on her back, a butterfly on the lower right side of her abdomen and spiraling flowers extending from her hip to her underarm on her right side. Her ears are pierced and she has breast implants.
Details of Disappearance Parker was last seen when she dropped her three-year-old twins off at the home of their father, her ex-fiance Dale Smith Jr., at Carter Glen Condominiums off Goldenrod Road in southeast Orlando, Florida at 2:30 p.m. on November 17, 2011.
She was driving a black 2007 Hummer HU3 with the Florida license plate number AWGM26. A security camera filmed her arriving at the condo and then driving away.
At 4:26 p.m. that day, Parker's brother sent her a text message asking where she was. The reply read simply "Waterford." Waterford Lakes is a neighborhood in Orlando. Her brother said she normally sent long text messages and it was uncharacteristic of her to reply with just one word; he doesn't believe Parker sent the message herself.
At 6:50 p.m., Parker's eleven-year-old son from another relationship called her sister, concerned because his mother hadn't arrived home. She didn't show up for her 7:30 p.m. shift as a bartender, and has never been heard from again.
Three weeks after Parker's disappearance, police found her cellular phone in a lake near the Nela Bridge in Belle Isle.
Parker and Smith had taped an episode of the television show The People's Court in June 2011. They were in a dispute over a $5,000 engagement ring. Parker threw the ring at him during an argument at a hotel and it fell nine stories and was lost in the hotel atrium.
During the taping she said her relationship with Smith had been troubled and he could become vindictive and abusive, particularly after he had been drinking. The judge ordered Parker and Smith to split the cost of the ring. Parker disappeared on the same day the episode aired.
A photo of Smith is posted with this summary. He has a record of prior arrests for marijuana and battery, and was dishonorably discharged from the Marines. Parker got a restraining order against him in 2009, saying he had physically abused her and threatened to kidnap their children. The order was dismissed after a month and the couple reconciled.
After Parker's disappearance, Florida's Department of Children and Families (DCF) filed a petition to remove their children from Smith's custody because of his history of violent behavior towards women. At an emergency hearing on November 30, the judge ruled there was no cause to grant the DCF's petition, and the twins remained with Smith. He refused to take a polygraph in Parker's and hired an attorney.
Parker's family was initially supportive of Smith, but later they publicly criticized him for not being involved in the search efforts and said they thought he was involved in her disappearance. In March 2013, they filed a wrongful death suit against him, alleging Parker died on the day she vanished "as a direct and proximate result" of Smith's "negligence."
Authorities have named him as the prime and only suspect in her , but he maintains his innocence.
Parker's family describes her as a dedicated mother who held three jobs to support her children: in addition to bartending, she was a hairdresser and had a home tanning business. They don't believe she would have left of her own accord and abandoned her children. Her remains unsolved and foul play is suspected.
Investigating Agency
Orlando Police Department
407-246-3975
Other
NamUs
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Facebook Page for Michelle Parker
For the People
MSNBC
E Online
The Orlando Sentinel
CBS News
The Palm Beach Post
WTSP 10
ABC News
The Palm Beach Post
The Daily Mail
The Palm Beach Post
Missing Person Photos
A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe.
By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.
A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.
Resources for Missing Persons
According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day.
Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends.
Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.
Missing Person Photos
