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NANCY GRACE

Video Shows Missing "People`s Court" Mom Before Disappearance

Aired January 23, 2012 - 20:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight, live, Orlando. A gorgeous mom of three fights it out on "The People`s Court" over a luxury diamond engagement ring, and her bad relationship with the ex plays out in front of millions. Well, just hours later, she`s gone, Michelle`s black Hummer found empty and defaced. The ex says he`s, quote, "too busy" to look for her and he lawyers up. Michelle`s 11-year-old tells police Daddy hits Mommy, but the judge gives her 3-year-old twins back to Daddy, now the prime suspect in Michelle`s disappearance.

Bombshell tonight. Is there a break in the case? In the last hours, grainy surveillance video emerges of Mommy just before she vanishes. And tonight, an arrest in connection with the case as we learn Michelle`s cell phone thrown off a bridge. Michelle`s friends seek vigilante justice, going after the ex, and he attacks a cameraman with the cameras rolling. Cops honing in on the bio dad`s family, divers searching a deep canal behind their home and bringing the in-laws in for interrogation. Bio dad still refusing a polygraph. Tonight, where is missing mom Michelle Parker?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We still need to find Michelle.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The disappearance of Michelle Parker.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dale Smith was the last person to see her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) nothing to hide.

GRACE: Daddy is suspect number one?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He would have taken a polygraph test. I would have.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Orlando Police Department says Smith...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... is the prime suspect in her disappearance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Big break in the case.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: New video of Michelle Parker just hours before she goes missing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She is still missing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As you look closer in this part of the video, you can see that is Michelle. You can see what she`s wearing, got that blue shirt on.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) mom working two jobs and going to school.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That "Glow" sticker -- we`re looking at it right now, the decal that`s on the side -- that was -- when the vehicle was recovered, that was removed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Family needs to have Michelle home!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So it shows you that just hours before, the sticker remained on the car.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight, live, Orlando. A gorgeous mom of three fights it out on "The People`s Court" over a luxury diamond engagement ring. Just hours later, she`s gone. But tonight, is there a break in the case?

We are in Orlando and taking your calls. Straight out to Jean Casarez, on the story from the very beginning. Jean, this grainy surveillance video emerges and we learn a lot from it. We learn, number one, she`s alone, number two what she`s wearing at the time she disappears.

And number three, very clearly, I can see as her car goes by the videocamera the advertisement, the huge advertisement for her mobile tanning salon is still there. Take a look as the car goes by, you see the word "Glow" written very, very plainly.

But when her black Hummer was found, the car was empty and had been defaced. Somebody knew that that very identifiable decal would be important. Jean, what more do we know tonight?

JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": Nancy, and that is what makes this so critical because this surveillance video shows us that the "Glow" insignia was intentionally taken off not by Michelle but by someone who didn`t want it known that it was her vehicle and that was her business right there.

You know, Nancy, we are also learning that her iPhone was found. Cops are not saying where it was found. It was found. More searches are being done in retention ponds that are close to where her fiance lives, the prime suspect, where his parents live and also close to where he worked in cabinetry.

GRACE: Back to Ellie Jostad, our chief editorial producer. This as we learn tonight her cell phone was actually thrown off a bridge? That is a huge departure in what we thought originally. What do we know, Ellie?

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER: Right, Nancy. Police have released a little bit more information about how they found this phone. Apparently, divers found it in Lake Conway. It`s underneath a bridge that spans over -- Lake Conway has actually kind of got two parts to it, and there`s a small bridge that goes over that area where the two parts of Lake Conway connect. It was found under water, under that bridge.

GRACE: OK, let`s talk about where that bridge is in relation to where we know she was last seen.

Everyone just joining us, is there a break in the case of missing "People`s Court" mom Michelle Parker? The young mom of three goes missing after her stormy relationship with an ex plays out on national TV. Within a couple of hours, she`s gone.

To David Lohr, senior crime reporter, HuffingtonPost. We also learn tonight not only does this surveillance video emerge, not only do we learn her cell phone intentionally thrown off a bridge into the water, we learn cops honing in on his family, the ex`s family. A deep canal behind the sister-in-law`s home has been searched with divers. Hundreds of volunteers coming out on weekends to search for Michelle Parker. And the in-laws, the baby daddy, his family, brought in for questioning.

David Lohr, are cops honing in on his family, not just him?

DAVID LOHR, HUFFINGTONPOST: Well, they are definitely focusing on them. As you mentioned, the canal search -- that`s a canal that runs directly behind Dale Smith, Sr.,`s house. We know both of his parents have been brought in for questioning. Police have asked them about the relationship with -- their son had with her, you know, different things of that nature. So it definitely seems that they`re focusing in on him and his family.

GRACE: To Ben Levitan joining us, telecommunications, joining us tonight out of St. Thomas. Ben, thank you for being with us. What does this mean now that we are learning her iPhone was thrown off of a bridge?

BEN LEVITAN, TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT (via telephone): We don`t know when the phone was thrown away. But clearly, the battery would be dead. If the battery is dead -- remember, a cell phone is nothing but plastic. There`s a good possibility that some forensic work could be done to actually get data off of that cell phone.

The other thing we can clearly find out from the phone carrier is when did that cell phone stop communicating with cell towers? Because about every two minutes, remember, the cell phone company checks on you to see where you are in case they have to send you a call. So that`s great, Nancy. When did it stop? That`ll tell us when that phone was thrown off the bridge.

GRACE: Well, what I`m more concerned about, Ben Levitan, telecommunications expert joining us, is the fact it was thrown of a bridge into the water. So how does that help me? Is it ruined?

LEVITAN: Well, Nancy, what I`m saying is it may not be ruined. A cell phone is completely plastic. And as long as the battery is dead, there`s a good chance we can get forensic evidence back off that phone.

GRACE: OK, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Then why is it when I drop my BlackBerry into a glass of water on the elliptical machine, why is it ruined?

LEVITAN: Well, it depends, Nancy. If the battery had gone dead -- what you created is a short circuit when you dropped it into your water. And that short circuit burns out a lot of the components. But if the phone was dead, completely dead, then there`s probably still memory storage in there, and then we have to know how long it was there. But what we can find out is when that phone was thrown into the river.

GRACE: Got it. Got it. With me, Ben Levitan, also taking your calls.

With me right now, special guest exclusively joining us, Brad Parker. This is Michelle`s father. So much happening. Is there a break in the case of the missing mom who has -- she`s been dubbed the "People`s Court" mom? This young missing mom of three has her entire relationship played out in front of millions on "The People`s Court" as she and her ex battle it out over a luxury engagement ring. Just a few hours after that plays out on "People`s Court," she`s gone. Her black Hummer turns up just down from where she was last seen, just down from her place in the lot of a condo complex. It was empty and defaced. Tonight, we learn cops seem to be honing in on the ex`s family.

With us now, Brad Parker. This is Michelle`s mom. (SIC) Brad, I`m still in shock over the judge giving custody of her 3-year-old twins to the father. We are also learning that he sends his lawyer to court to get rid of custody payments of $800 a month.

I don`t know if you recall another case, a professional football player, Rae Carruth, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of his former girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child, just to get rid of custody payments. A lot of people say that`s not motive for murder, but there`s hard proof that it can be motive for murder.

Brad Parker with me. Brad, are you there?

BRAD PARKER, MISSING WOMAN`S FATHER (via telephone): Yes. Good evening, Nancy, and thank you for having me on.

GRACE: I`d like for you to weigh in on the latest. We are learning that Michelle`s iPhone was intentionally thrown off a bridge into the water. We also learn, according to police, that the ex circled (ph) back. And searches have been going on in Palm Bay, where he spent hours just after Michelle goes missing. What do you know, Brad?

PARKER: Well, that morning, Friday, he went to work. He went to Palm Bay by himself in his work van and went over to Palm Bay. And that`s where he worked.

GRACE: Searches have gone down in Palm Bay. Why, Brad? Why were cops so interested in that area?

PARKER: That`s where he was working Friday. And he went over there by himself. And we told the police department to go over there and check the apartments he was working at, if they were vacant or there was a dumpster or woods. They did the woods over there. They had to get a search warrant. But they came up with nothing.

GRACE: Also, we learn the cops seem to be honing in on the ex`s family itself. What can you tell me, Ellie Jostad? I understand that both of his parents have been brought in for police interrogation. And not only that, police searching a deep canal behind his sister`s house.

JOSTAD: Right, Nancy. Police actually got subpoenas to bring both of Dale Smith, Jr.`s, parents in to talk to cops. And they`ve searched canals near the parents` house. They`ve searched areas near Dale Smith, Jr.`s, house. And most recently, you`re right, searched the canal behind the house where his sister lives.

GRACE: We are taking your calls. Is there a break in the case of missing "People`s Court" mom Michelle Parker?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MICHELLE PARKER, CONTESTANT: He cheated (ph) on me constantly and I`ve always tried to keep it together for the kids and (INAUDIBLE) forget and forgive, and this was the final straw. (INAUDIBLE) obviously (INAUDIBLE) I`ll you what happened.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, but what happened (INAUDIBLE) Is this how it`s always has been between you two?

MICHELLE PARKER: No. No.

(CROSSTALK)

MICHELLE PARKER: No, he gets pretty malicious.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thirty-three-year-old mother of three.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The family needs to have Michelle home!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What clues it may reveal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We`re being relentless in this investigation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is killing me!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The question remains, where could Michelle be?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From day one, I thought it was Dale. Day one, I thought he did it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The children`s father was the last person to see her.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Tonight, video surveillance emerges of missing mom Michelle Parker just before she goes missing. We learn a lot from this video. Straight out to Ellie Jostad. Ellie, we actually see what she`s wearing at the time she goes missing. What more do we know about the surveillance video?

JOSTAD: Right. This is around 12:22. This is at a KFC where she is going to pick up lunch. She paid with a credit card. Police say they have analyzed this video and they don`t believe anybody else was in the car with her.

GRACE: With us, Michelle`s father, Brad Parker. Brad, what do you make of the arrest of the father-in-law? In other words, the ex`s father. He`s been arrested for the manufacture and sale of marijuana?

PARKER: I could not believe it until we called the police department and actually found out he was in there. I could not believe it. Now, this is his second offense, too, now that I found out.

GRACE: Let me ask you this. Brad Parker, everyone, is Michelle`s dad, asking for your help tonight. We know that her phone not only was found, her iPhone was found, thrown off of a bridge. The bridge is over a canal very close to his family`s home. Is that the sister`s home? I understand that the search teams were out looking in a canal behind the sister`s home?

PARKER: Yes, I believe (INAUDIBLE) I believe it was -- I don`t know if it was his sister`s house or -- he owns a rental house, and I think it was the canal with the rental house (INAUDIBLE) the father-in-law.

GRACE: Let`s go out to the lines. Kathleen in Florida. Hi, Kathleen. What`s your question, dear?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why would you give custody of the kids to this father? I don`t get it, Nancy.

GRACE: Well, I`ve got to tell you something. I`m in shock. Let`s pull up the shot of the judge that handed custody over to the ex, now the prime suspect in Michelle Parker`s disappearance. And also, Liz, let`s see that video of the ex, Dale Smith, Jr., attacking a cameraman who`s just standing there. There you go. And this is on the courthouse steps! This is on the courthouse steps. The guy is just standing there.

We also learn that her friends want vigilante justice and go after Parker (SIC) himself. Thomas W. Turner -- that is the legal brain trust that handed custody over not to Michelle`s family, but to the prime suspect in her disappearance, even after her 11-year-old son tells cops he beats Mommy in front of all three children.

I want to go to Ellie Jostad. Ellie, her friends, angry, livid, go after Brad Parker -- excuse me, go after Dale Smith, Jr., themselves. What happened?

JOSTAD: Right, Nancy. Well, at this hearing to talk about child support payments, a couple of Michelle`s friends showed up. They were actually hoping that they might get to see Dale Smith, Jr., in person and ask him a few questions. They wanted to ask him why he hasn`t, according to police, been willing to take a polygraph.

GRACE: So they go to court to gang up on him. Jean Casarez, even at this juncture, he still has not taken a polygraph?

CASAREZ: No. He has refused to take a polygraph. Now, his attorney has said he`s answered questions to authorities. We don`t know what the questions are. We don`t know what the answers were. But no polygraph.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers, Randy Kessler, Darryl Cohen, both renowned defense attorneys. Kessler, I don`t understand why the judge hands custody over to the father, who`s the prime suspect in Mommy`s disappearance.

RANDY KESSLER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, you know what? He didn`t hand custody over. He just said dad is the dad. He`s the legal father. And that`s who gets custody of the children unless they can be proven to have done something wrong. He is not been proven...

GRACE: Well...

KESSLER: ... to have done anything wrong.

GRACE: You know what, Kessler? Please put Kessler up. Wouldn`t you agree that beating Mommy is wrong, Kessler?

KESSLER: Yes, but that`s not what this case is about. Wouldn`t you agree it`s better...

GRACE: I know that`s not what this case is about, Darryl Cohen, but you got the 11-year-old boy telling cops Daddy beats Mommy in front of all three children. Why does he have custody, Darryl?

DARRYL COHEN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: He has custody because he`s the father and he hasn`t been charged with anything. And whether we like it or not, he is not charged with being a murderer or a kidnapper. That`s the way it is.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mother of three Michelle Parker.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She is still missing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Her brother got that very cryptic one-word text message, and then she hasn`t been heard from since.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ex-fiance, Dale Smith, Jr., now the prime suspect.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think he did it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no reason to believe that she`s dead.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was also linked to a murder case when he was just about 20 years old.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We need a blessing, a big miracle.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Where could Michelle be?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Grainy surveillance video emerges in the case of the "People`s Court" mom. The missing young mom of three, after her case plays out on "People`s Court" where she fights it out with an ex over a luxury diamond engagement ring -- she is never seen again, except for dropping her 3-year- old twins off at the ex`s for visitation. Now he goes to court and demands his child support payments end -- 800 bucks a month he no longer has to pay.

We are taking your calls. Out to Diane in California. Hi, Diane. What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. I know that the cops say that Dale Smith is a prime suspect. What is the evidence that they have on him? And did he take a polygraph?

GRACE: Number one, Diana, he has not taken a polygraph. Number two, I`m surprised they came out and named him a prime suspect because at that juncture, his constitutional rights and privileges attach. Until that point, until he`s a target, he`s just like everybody else. But now he`s got certain rights and privileges under the Constitution.

Back to David Lohr, senior crime reporter with the HuffingtonPost. David, why did they name him the prime suspect?

LOHR: Well, as you know, Nancy, anyone who`s closest to the victim police have to look at. I`m sure they looked at her parents. They`ve looked at his parents. You know, you have to look at the volatile relationship that he had with her, a lot of which was discussed on "People`s Court." She alleged he was violent, you know, the child alleging that he would beat her in front of the children. So you know, I think it`s common sense in this case that he would be the suspect. And they`ve also looked at his past. He has a past criminal record.

GRACE: To Brad Parker. This is Michelle`s father joining us exclusively tonight. Brad, I can think of about 10,000 reasons that they may think he`s got a motive, and that would be about 10 grand he`s got to pay a year in child support, $800 a month. And it was so important to him that he goes to court to get those payments stopped. There were prior alleged beatings, the "People`s Court" incident and his prior criminal conduct, Brad Parker. Why do you think -- you`re Michelle`s father. Why was he named prime suspect number one?

PARKER: Well, he was the last one to be with her. And with all the beatings going on and -- he always fought with her, and he didn`t want to pay child support and he didn`t want to pay for the wedding ring and the Hummer. Now he`s got the kids.

GRACE: Tonight, is there a break in the case of People`s Court missing mom Michelle Parker? Grainy surveillance video emerges. What do we learn?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MICHELLE PARKER, MISSING MOM: He was vindictive and he`s a mean person especially when he`s been drinking. And he grabbed me and he yanked me around.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He`s just very abusive to her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Never really cared for the guy.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Judge Thomas Turner ruled the children should not be taken from their father.

JUDGE THOMAS TURNER: I don`t see the imminent risk for potential abuse.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take a look at the video and you can see the time stamp on it, 12:22.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know what their mother is going through.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see her at a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant. Pulling up. Now as you look closer in this part of the video, you can see that is Michelle.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: She vanished after she appeared on an episode of the "People`s Court" with her ex-fiancee, Dale Smith Jr., now the prime suspect in her disappearance.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We need to find Michelle.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The disappearance of Michelle Parker.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Dale Smith was the last person to see her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He had nothing to hide.

NANCY GRACE, HLN HOST: Daddy is suspect number one.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GRACE: Welcome back. For those of you just joining us. Is there a break in the case of missing "People`s Court" mom Michelle Parker, mother of three. A boy plus 3-year-old twins.

Grainy surveillance video emerges of her just hours before she goes missing. We see what she`s wearing at the time she goes missing. We see that she is alone and as her Hummer drives by, we see that the vehicle still bears a huge advertisement for her mobile tanning service Glow. There you see it. When that Hummer was found after she goes missing, it was not only empty, but defaced. Someone that took her knew her well enough to know that that advertisement would absolutely identify the vehicle as hers and abandoned.

We are taking your calls, but I want to go back to Michelle`s father. Brad Parker is joining us tonight desperate to find his daughter.

Brad, again, thank you for being with us. I want to talk to you about that bridge. The bridge we now know from which her cell phone, her iPhone was thrown. She would never have done that to her iPhone. She loved that phone, she texted from it all the time.

I want to find out how far that bridge is from her ex`s home where she dropped the twins before she went missing? How far it is from where she was going to work that evening. What can you tell us, Brad Parker?

BRAD PARKER, FATHER OF MISSING PEOPLE`S COURT MICHELLE PARKER: Michelle would never throw her phone away. I mean especially in the water over a bridge. She would never do it. And I believe it`s eight or nine miles from the bridge to Dale`s where he lives. And OPD went every room that he could get his parents` house and they searched every canal and that`s how he found it.

GRACE: Whoa. That is how they found it, by searching a canal? Was this canal in any way connected or close to any of his family`s home?

B. PARKER: It was from his house, he would have to go that way to go to his parents` house to drop the kids off. And that`s how they found it. They want -- there`s about three different ways to get to his parents` house. And one of those was right over that bridge.

GRACE: Whoa. You know, to Mike Dow, psychotherapist, author of "Diet Rehab" joining us out of L.A.

Mike, I can`t tell you how many times cops very simply get in their squad car and they drive from where they think the person, the victim was last seen alive to, for instance, where the suspect works. Where the suspect`s family is. And they look at bridges en route, they find cell phones, they find guns, murder weapons, guns taken apart, and part of it thrown in the water, knives, you name -- bodies thrown off bridges.

Why? The expedience factor. You can drive by and throw something off the bridge without even getting out of your car. That`s why bridges are favorite targets for defendants to get rid of evidence. What do you make of this? Did you hear what Brad Parker just told us? That this bridge is between where he lives and where his family lives.

MIKE DOW, PSY.D., PSYCHOTHERAPIST, AUTHOR OF "DIET REHAB": Well, no big surprise there, Nancy. Now most victims of violent crimes are committed by people that they know. You know what I`m really upset about, I am hearing all these legal experts saying well, there`s no formal charges. You know, I don`t care what`s in the best interest of these children to be giving those -- you know, the custody to the father who is, you know, in all likelihood the murder or the person who did murder him, that makes me very angry.

GRACE: Well, it makes me, not only angry, but what message is it sending to the 3-year-old twins? And hold on, since that time, there has been an arrest in connection with this case. The ex`s father, Jean Casarez, has been arrested.

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": This is really serious, OK? Because it was in January this year he was arrested for selling and manufacturing controlled substances, possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Now how do they know all of this? They served a search warrant on the home, his home, and that`s where the grandchildren visit.

GRACE: You are seeing shots of Dale Smith, Jr. in a hot body contest.

You know, Liz, I`ve seen those enough, I don`t think there`s anything hot about him. You can quit showing them now.

Out to the lines. Hi, Jason, what`s your question?

JASON, CALLER: Hi, Nancy. Thanks for taking my call.

GRACE: Thank you, dear, what is your question?

JASON: My question is -- well, actually I have two questions.

GRACE: OK.

JASON: Where is her ex right now and is he still being watched by police?

GRACE: Good question. To Ellie Jostad, what about it?

ELLIE JOSTAD, NANCY GRACE CHIEF EDITORIAL PRODUCER: Well, Nancy, he`s in the home where he lives. He has the custody of the two twins and he has recently just been laid off from his job. And -- so I don`t know if police are keeping an eye on him or not, but as they`ve named him a suspect, I`d imagine that they are.

GRACE: Joining us now, telecommunications expert, Ben Levitan,

Ben, so much is breaking in the case. This surveillance video was just a couple of hours before she goes missing. We learn a lot from it. But what other surveillance video would you be interested in finding, Ben Levitan?

BEN LEVITAN, TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERT: Well, Nancy, we know she was at the -- she was at the Kentucky Fried Chicken. From her cell phone records, we can probably find where she made her next call and her next call, and that gives us a route and this is done all the time in forensics.

We can develop a route, we can find surveillance cameras along that route, Nancy, and by doing that, maybe we can start finding out where she was taken, when she was taken and, you know, at least there`s cameras everywhere and we know that.

GRACE: Well, you`re right.

LEVITAN: And as long as we know --

GRACE: You`re right and I`m going to ask Brad Parker to follow-up on that. This is Michelle`s dad asking for your help tonight.

Brad, along that same stretch of roadway where her cell phone was discarded off of a bridge, are there other businesses, retail, restaurants, gas stations, what along that way is there?

B. PARKER: On that way, there is lights and cameras. There`s a couple of stores on the way there. They have not told us if they found any video of Michelle yet. They just released that one. And that`s all they said to us.

GRACE: To Dr. Ann Contrucci, physician joining us out of Atlanta. Dr. Ann, thank you for being with us. Question, we now know that evidence has been disposed of in water. Now when you don`t know a horse, look at his track record. I`m just guessing if her body had been under water now for this period of time, what can we learn from it if it`s found.

There you see divers that have been searching canals around the ex`s family`s home. What can we learn from the body if anything, Dr. Ann?

DR. ANN CONTRUCCI, PEDIATRICIAN: Well, you`re still -- you know there`s going to be decomposition, obviously. She`s been missing for a couple of months now. Warm moist conditions certainly can amplify decomposition, but there`s still gong to be DNA. So DNA is where it`s at.

GRACE: So, Dr. Ann, even if she -- her body has been under water, you can still of course get DNA, but could you get a cause of death?

CONTRUCCI: It would be a lot more challenging, but I think it`s possible although very challenging I think for medical examiners.

GRACE: Dr. Ann, at what point under water will her body start to decompose to the point that it actually tears apart?

CONTRUCCI: I don`t think there is a definite answer for that, Nancy, because it depends on if there was trauma prior to it. So if there was already trauma that can lead to more decomposition more quickly I guess is what I`m saying or how warm is the temperature. Did -- was the body thrown, that kind of thing. That`s a difficult question to answer.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Michelle Parker is her name.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The mother of three vanished after she appeared on an episode of the "People`s Court" with her ex-fiance.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: With Dale Smith, Jr.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A new piece to that timeline, a new piece to the puzzle.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So they found a video of her during that day?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: He is now the prime suspect.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you have any idea where she is? Where is Michelle? Did you kill her?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: New video just released that shows Parker just hours before she went missing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It also shows us how hard LPD has been working on this to uncover this type of video.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From day one, I thought it was Dale.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From day one I thought he did it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you see that? The decals on the side of her truck so distinct.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whoever has her, let her go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take a look at the video and you can see the time stamp on it. 12:22.

B. PARKER: Women don`t disappear in broad daylight with a Hummer and as pretty as Michelle is.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see her.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: This could be the last images of Michelle Parker.

M. PARKER: I went down the stairs, got 10 or 15 feet away from the front door, I felt somebody grabbed me and yanked me around. As he grab and turned it around he was holding on to me, screaming at me, playing back up to the stage. You know, I`m like sitting there looking out, like, really, you`re really doing this in front of all these people?

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GRACE: You`re seeing video you YouTube and Warner Brothers and on Michelle Parker on "People`s Court," just a couple of hours after this aired in the Florida, Orlando area. She goes missing. Tonight is there a break in the case? This grainy surveillance video emerges of the missing mom of three at a fast food restaurant. This is just hours before she goes missing. We see she is not distraught, she`s not arguing on the phone.

What she`s wearing the blue jersey at the time of her disappearance. And importantly we see that advertisement for her mobile tanning company.

We are taking your calls. Sharon in South Carolina, hi, dear, what`s your question?

SHARON, CALLER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA: Hey, Nancy. I`m just wondering, you know, the father, Dale Smith, Sr., was arrested for growing marijuana in his house and we know that the kids spend a lot of time in that house. Can they be somehow be taken out of that temporarily or even permanently?

GRACE: To Dt. Lt. Stephen Rogers, former member of the FBI.

Steve, thanks for being with us. You got the father-in-law arrested for manufacturing and selling marijuana. This is on top of his I believe it was the 99 conviction for cocaine. The police seemed to be honing on the baby, daddy, family. Searching in deep canals behind his sister`s house, calling the grandparents in for question with the police.

What do you think, Steve?

DET. LT. STEVE ROGERS, NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY, POLICE DEPARTMENT: Well, this tell s me that the police are giving -- were given information perhaps do some interviews that some explanations that are not being confront. So they`re going to interview every one, Nancy. They`re going to talk to everyone again and again. And of course, as you and I ground zero. Right where the sand where he lives. The closes relatives to the victims, the people that they have to zero in.

So that tells me there`s some missing links that these people may have and the police are going to go hunting after them.

GRACE: To our lawyers, Randy Kessler, Darryl Cohen, both defense attorneys. First to you, Darryl. You`ve seen this I`m sure many times as have I when you were a felony prosecutor before you became a defense lawyer. The perp circling back and going back to the scene of the crime. I am thinking specifically Scott Peterson who kept looking out on the San Francisco bay where he had discarded the bodies of his wife, Laci Peterson and their unborn child, Conner. Do you think there is a GPS tracker on his father`s vehicle or his family?

DARRYL COHEN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Nancy, there can`t be a GPS tracker. The Supreme Court just came out and ruled it completely unconstitutional. So if it`s there it`s not going to be admissible. But for him to go back if he did something and looked, yes, you are absolutely correct. That`s exactly what many perps will do. They want to look at the crime scene. They want to see what if anything just is happening at the crime scene.

GRACE: What about the scenario where cops get a warrant for the GPS tracker?

COHEN: That`s completely different. They can get a warrant, if they get a warrant, they can stick it on there.

GRACE: Yes, that`s my point. Do you think there is a GPS on his or his family`s vehicle. I`ll throw some supreme court ruling and that makes no difference if they`ve got a warrant.

COHEN: I don`t think they have a warrant.

GRACE: What do you think -- do you really think that Kessler and I and the viewers are stupid?

COHEN: No, I think that you --

GRACE: We know that if you get a warrant, you can use a GPS tracker. So don`t try to throw some irrelevant ruling at me as to why they shouldn`t have a tracker.

COHEN: It`s actually very relevant, but having said that, do they have a tracker, I would say no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can they use a tracker, yes, no?

COHEN: Certainly they can but the answer is --

GRACE: Thanks.

COHEN: -- we`d know about, wouldn`t we, Nancy?

GRACE: No, as a matter of fact, you wouldn`t always know about it. You will not know about it until there`s a return, Kessler. Explain what the return is on thank you warrant.

RANDY KESSLER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, but that`s what makes it public. They can -- you know, some things if you let everybody know that they`re going to stop the behavior you`re trying to catch.

GRACE: Yes, think of wire taps. You think the mob knows they`re being tapped in the men`s bathroom at Rafaelle`s Italian restaurant. No. They don`t know. They don`t know until you get the return. In other words, everything they`ve been recording all this long. If there`s a GOP tracker, all this people`s vehicles, they`re not going to know until they read about it in answer is we would know about it in discovery just prior to trial, Kessler.

KESSLER: Right. But he`s got a lawyer and his lawyers got to have told him you don`t go anywhere near the crime scene. You raise your kids, you stay out kids and the way from anything that`s related to this situation. He`s got a lawyer. He should be getting good advice.

GRACE: But you know, I still say human nature will take over and whoever did this to Michelle Parker will circle back, I guarantee you.

Out to the lines, Frank, Newt Jersey. Hi, Frank, what`s your question?

FRANK, CALLER FROM NEW JERSEY: Hi, Nancy. I`m so excited that I got through. They question that I have is they`ve been calling this guy a suspect for quite sometime. So how long can they call him a suspect for and can they take away the kids?

GRACE: To Brad Parker, this is Michelle`s father who is asking for your help. I don`t understand why they have the children. His family -- how long has he been named a suspect? Have there been any other developments on what will he say about his possible involvement and isn`t it true that his family is keeping you from seeing the twins?

B. PARKER: Yes, he is. He`s mad because his dad got arrested and we want the grandkids around the drugs and he is mad about that.

GRACE: So is he living with the father?

B. PARKER: No, he -- Dale has his own -- he has a town house, he has his own place. But he used to drop his kids off over there then and go to work and come back and I can pick take a look.

GRACE: You mean with all the pot growing in the house? With all the marijuana growing in the house he leaves the children there?

B. PARKER: Yes. And we don`t want the kids over there no more.

GRACE: And the judge knows about all this and he still allows custody?

B. PARKER: Yes. It will come back to haunt him, it`ll bite him, the judge. Just give it time.

GRACE: Let me ask you something. Did they give you any reason they`re not -- for not letting you see the twins, the 3-year-old twins?

B. PARKER: He is mad because we are after him. He said he didn`t do it. Be a man, step up to the complaint, and take the lie detector test.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Michelle Parker is her name. She disappeared right after an episode of "People`s Court" aired that feature her and her ex-fiancee Dale Smith, Jr. He is now the prime suspect.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you have any idea where she is? Where`s Michelle?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Did you kill her?

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What (INAUDIBLE) do you have that he hasn`t seen a penny for any of this? Is what, that you gave to him?

M. PARKER: I threw it at him.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He should have caught it. Should have been a better catch.

M. PARKER: Well, he should be. He shouldn`t have put his hands on me and shouldn`t have put his hands on me prior, he shouldn`t have left me three or four times over the past year and a half, the way that he had. Took my truck and left me and see -- that was another one. For reasons I don`t deserve. It`s just -- it`s been a hell of a roller coaster ride, and it`s poison and we`re done. He doesn`t deserve it.

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GRACE: You`re seeing video from YouTube and Warner Brothers. That`s Michelle on "People`s Court." Just hours after that airs in the Orlando area, she`s gone. Leaving behind her 11-year-old child and two 3-year-old twins who want to know where is mommy. Her father is with us tonight, Brad Parker, begging for your help.

Brad, what does this say to you, instead of being out looking with all the hundreds of volunteers that are looking for Michelle, he`s going to court trying to end his child support payments.

B. PARKER: Yes, right. And that`s I can`t believe that. He has not made one effort to try to find Michelle. I don`t even think he -- has shed one tear.

GRACE: When you have spoken to him, what does he say?

B. PARKER: I have not talked to him since this happened.

GRACE: Not even once.

B. PARKER: Nope. And he hasn`t called me, I haven`t called him. I know we`ll have some words. Like I told him before, step up to the plate, be a man. Prove yourself you`re innocent, and quit hiding behind your lawyers and that.

GRACE: What do you make of her iPhone being found in that canal, thrown off a bridge, not far from where his family lives?

B. PARKER: It`s him. He -- he went to his parents` house and maybe dropped the kids off over there, circled back, threw the phone out. If he did kill Michelle, then he got rid of the body Friday morning.

GRACE: Tip line, 1-800-423-8777 there`s a reward in connection with Michelle Parker, the missing mom.

Let`s stop and remember Army Sergeant David Hierholzer, 27, Lewisburg, Tennessee, killed Afghanistan. Bronze Star, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal. Afghanistan Campaign Medal. Loved football, telling jokes, four wheeling, working out. A devout Christian, always sending letters with his motto, enjoy the journey. Leaves behind parents David and Christine, sisters Melanie and Dawn.

David Hierholzer. American hero.

Thanks to our guests but especially to you for being with us. I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern. And until then, good night, friend.

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