Mother disappears ... hours after her People's Court dispute with 'violent' ex-fiance airs on TV



Hours after Michelle Parker aired her violent, tumultuous relationship with her ex-fiance on a dramatic episode of 'The People's Court,' she captured national attention again. This time, it's because the 33-year-old mother of three had disappeared from her Orlando, Florida, home without a trace.



Ms Parker and Dale Smith fought it out over a $5,000 engagement ring on the popular courtroom reality show. Mr Smith sued his former fiance and claimed she lost the ring when she threw it at him in a fight at a Hilton Hotel during a science fiction convention.



Police said Ms Parker has a 'violent' history with Mr Smith, though he is not named as a suspect. In the 'People's Court' episode, Ms Parker described being grabbed by Mr Smith and having to call police after a fight.



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Missing: Family members reported Ms Parker missing after she didn't show up for work as a bartender at a local restaurant. Police later found her abandoned Hummer SUV

On the show, Judge Marilyn Milian tells the couple: 'You're like drugs to each other. You're addicted to each other.'



She decried their volatile relationship, saying that each of them needs to move on from their on-again-off again romance that has lasted since 2006. She added that the pair needs to 'grow up' and 'move on' for the sake of the 3-year-old twins they have together.



Ms Parker's family reported her missing Thursday night when she didn't show up for work at 8 p.m. at The Barn restaurant, where she is a bartender.

She was last seen by friends at 2 p.m. Thursday, not long after her episode of 'The People's Court' aired on TV.



'She's an amazing person and we just want to see her home,' Lauren Erikson, Michelle's sister, told WKMG in Orlando.

Spotlight: Michelle Parker squared off against her ex-boyfriend Dale Smith on 'The People's Court' hours before she went missing. Mr Smith sued his ex-girlfriend after she threw away a $5,000 engagement ring



Dirty laundry: The People's Court Episode with Mr Smith and Ms Parker was promoted as 'Roller Coaster Romance Derails!' and included the pair airing the dirty laundry about their relationship

Ms Parker is 5-foot-6 with short, dark brown hair. Her black Humvee was also reported reported missing, though investigators found it empty.

Perhaps most mysteriously, she sent a text message to her brother about 4:30 p.m. saying she was in the Waterford Lakes area of Orlando. But when investigators tracked her cell phone, they found she was never near there.

'They searched the towers, that was a decoy,' Ms Parker's mother Yvonne Stewart said.

Ms Parker is the mother of an 11-year-old son and two 3-year-old twins, who she had with Mr Smith.

The couple went through a custody battle over the children in 2009, according to court documents.



Searching: Despite their history, family members say Mr Smith is cooperating with police and that they don't believe he is involved in his ex-fiance's disappearance

Ms Parker accused her ex-boyfriend of domestic violence that same year, saying he hurled profanities at her while holding one of the couple's twins. He also threw their child car seats and broke the window out of her car, she alleged.



Despite the link to a volatile lover, family members told the Orlando Sentinel they don't think Mr. Smith was involved and that he is working with police.

'He's been completely cooperative,' Ms Erickson said.

Rather, it seems likely she was carjacked, they said.

'There's no one focus. There's no tunnel vision. All information is welcome,' Ms Erickson said.

