Oct 15, 2026 · 19 min · 13 segments
Just minutes after the broadcast of her appearance on The People's Court, where she fought her ex-fiancé over a lost engagement ring, a woman vanished. Now, 15 years later, he has been charged with…
Eva PilgrimHost
Steven Fabian
Just minutes after appearing on the People's Court fighting with her ex-fiance over a lost engagement ring, she vanished.
All this comes as the TV judge he faced a decade and a half ago speaks with Steven Fabian.
This attractive mother of three was never seen again just 20 minutes after appearing on the People's Court.
Now 15 years later, the man she sued in People's Court is in real court charged with her cold case murder.
All right.
So, um, Mr. Smith, you'll be held with no bond.
33-year-old Michelle Parker's appearance on the People's Court in November 2011 exposed a relationship with her ex-fiance so toxic it shocked the host of the show, Judge Marilyn Milian.
It's because you're like drugs to each other.
You're addicted to each other.
He gets pretty malicious and vindictive, and he's a mean person, especially when he's been drinking.
Judge Milian, now host of Justice for the People, told me that all these years later she still remembers the case.
We were devastated at the show, devastated.
Because you sit there and you say to yourself, "Is there anything I could have done differently? Is there anything we could have anticipated? Um, is there w- anything that he said or she said that might have given us a glimpse into what the future would hold?"
They were on the People's Court fighting over who would pay for a $5,000 engagement ring that was lost during a violent argument in a hotel.
A few minutes after the episode aired, police say Michelle Parker dropped her twins off at her ex's home in Orlando, and she was never seen again.
To this day, her body has not been recovered, and Smith has been a suspect from day one.
Do you have anything to say about this?
Just minutes after appearing on the People's Court fighting with her ex-fiance over a lost engagement ring, she vanished.
All this comes as the TV judge he faced a decade and a half ago speaks with Steven Fabian.
This attractive mother of three was never seen again just 20 minutes after appearing on the People's Court.
Now 15 years later, the man she sued in People's Court is in real court charged with her cold case murder.
All right.
So, um, Mr. Smith, you'll be held with no bond.
33-year-old Michelle Parker's appearance on the People's Court in November 2011 exposed a relationship with her ex-fiance so toxic it shocked the host of the show, Judge Marilyn Milian.
It's because you're like drugs to each other.
You're addicted to each other.
He gets pretty malicious and vindictive, and he's a mean person, especially when he's been drinking.
Judge Milian, now host of Justice for the People, told me that all these years later she still remembers the case.
We were devastated at the show, devastated.
Because you sit there and you say to yourself, "Is there anything I could have done differently? Is there anything we could have anticipated? Um, is there w- anything that he said or she said that might have given us a glimpse into what the future would hold?"
They were on the People's Court fighting over who would pay for a $5,000 engagement ring that was lost during a violent argument in a hotel.
A few minutes after the episode aired, police say Michelle Parker dropped her twins off at her ex's home in Orlando, and she was never seen again.
To this day, her body has not been recovered, and Smith has been a suspect from day one.
Do you have anything to say about this?
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