As Orlando police released new video a day after the two-year anniversary of the disappearance of Michelle Parker, a mother of three, her mother Yvonne Stewart made a tearful appeal to the mother of her daughter’s ex-fiance, Dale Smith.
The newly released red light video shows Parker’s Hummer at 8:55 p.m., on the night she went missing, at the intersection of Vineland and Conroy Roads. The Hummer was stopped at a red light about 3/4 mile from where it was discovered one day after Parker disappeared on November 17, 2011. On the day Parker disappeared she had dropped off her two youngest children – three-year-old twins – with their father, Smith, earlier in the afternoon.
Lead OPD investigator Mike Moreschi said the new video is an important part of the timeline when Parker went missing. It shows no one following the Hummer nor was it following any other vehicle. The Hummer was missing the glow stickers that had been present previously on the vehicle.
Moreschi said that the video was withheld up until now to assist with streamlining the investigation and was being released today, “simply to bring more awareness to the case and also the timeline.”
“After two years of investigating this case, I firmly believe that the perpetrator of this crime did not act alone, this was a two-person situation,” he said.
An emotional Stewart spoke publicly to Tammy Smith, the mother of Dale Smith, urging her to call Crimeline with information regarding where Michelle might be located.
“You [Tammy Smith] are a mother, I am a mother, we are grandmothers with the same grandchildren,” she said. “Michelle has been hidden, Michelle’s children need a place to mourn their mother, so does her family.”
“What do you have to tell?” Stewart asked, in a serious of questions for Smith. “…I know it’s going to be hard for you. You are going to be conflicted….you know where your children are, Tammy, and we don’t know where ours are.”
Orlando police have named Dale Smith as a person of interest in the disappearance of Parker, but he has not been charged with any crime.
Anyone with information on this crime is urged to call Crimeline at #1-800-423-TIPS.
