A mom vanished after she and her ex-fiancé were on ‘The People’s Court.’ Now he’s accused of murder.

An Orlando man has been arrested in the disappearance of his ex-fiancée, who vanished in 2011 hours after the pair appeared in a pretaped episode of “The People’s Court,” police said.

Dale Smith Jr., 55, was arrested Wednesday at his business on a charge of second-degree murder, police said.

Michelle Parker’s body has not been found, but police said “all evidence leads to Dale Smith Jr. as the person responsible for Michelle’s murder.”

Smith was booked into jail in Orange County. It’s not immediately clear whether he has retained an attorney.

The arrest comes nearly 15 years after Parker, a mother of three, disappeared.

She was last seen on Nov. 17, 2011, dropping off her twins with their father, Smith. He was the last person to see her, Orlando Police Chief Eric D. Smith said Wednesday.

The afternoon she went missing, Parker and Dale Smith appeared on a prerecorded episode of “The People’s Court.” On the episode, they settled a dispute over a $5,000 engagement ring.

Smith “gets pretty malicious and vindictive,” Parker said in court. “He said that he wanted his ring, so I took it off, and I threw it at him.”

The day after Parker’s disappearance, her…

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