Which brings me to another thought. Was this the first time the show had aired?
I wonder if DS was the type to brag and tell people about the episode, thinking that he looked cool, or even previously embelished how the episode went .... and then the reality of the show wasn't quite what he made it out to be.
Embarrassing, yes. Did someone say something like "Dude, she made you look like a chump." or something? Would that infuriate him? Probably.
IDN .. just thinking out loud. If DS is the perp, it's really hard to deny that the cause of his rage (because I don't think he planned it) was something to do with the show...
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As has been mentioned it was the first run of that show. I took an acting class in college and I can tell you there aren't many people who like what they see when they see themselves on video. I think DS is the type that would go off and blame her for making him look bad. JMO
The moment I saw the show, I believed that Dale became enraged at what he saw portrayed. Some people think Michelle came across worse. The only thing that matters is how an extremely angry, violent person felt when he saw the show. What did he perceive?
He looked to be barely controlling his anger at the end of the show. He wanted to hide how irate he was by pretending he needed to make an important call right away, so he could have his head down and face away from the camera as he emerged from the courtroom. It didn't work. Even that little tactic was called out by the interviewer.
I think the judge fully humiliated Dale about his comic-con stuff, star wars, whatever. She did not seem genuinely interested. She seemed snide. She was very amused by what she thought was the silliness of the whole thing.
She also yelled at Dale, talked down to him. He probably doesn't allow a woman to do such a thing.
All in all, I think he was very angry after the show was taped and possibly even more so when he saw how he was portrayed when it aired. What the camera shows can be different from one's memory, especially if that memory is held by an infantile, rage-filled misogynist.
I don't think he could take it and I think he whipped himself into a pulse-pounding frenzy of humiliated rage. And who does he blame? Not himself. he would blame the b!tch that caused him to need to sue in the first place. Then Michelle rolls up right at that time.
I think the next thing he did was to say, with gritted teeth, "I need to talk to you right now." He either asked her to come in and leave the sleeping kids in the car for a moment or he told the kids to go into a room or something and he knocked her over the head or shot her or strangled her or even stabbed her to death. Any one of those types of murders, with the exception of shooting, could be quieter than one thinks. My law partner had a case out here where a guy stabbed his girlfriend to death in his bedroom (she came over to break up with him) while his whole family was home. No one heard a thing.
Then, he has to hide Michelle from the sight of the kids quickly, distract them while he shoves her body in her car, load up the kids and run to daddy's, tossing a cell phone as he went.
Looking back through the first MSN articles...as early as Nov. 18th LE was focused on the area of Oakridge and Belle Isle. I just wonder what the numerous tips were and why that area was suggested? It is after all the exact location where her phone was found. Why was that specific area known to tipsters so early on?
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orlando Police announced late Saturday morning that they are targeting their search area for a missing woman, Michelle Parker.
Police said
numerous tips have come in leading detectives to pinpoint their search in the areas of Oakridge and Belle Isle. Investigators said Parker's iPhone may also be in that area. Police asked anyone who has found a cellphone in that area to Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS or the Orlando Police Department.
Read more:
http://www.wesh.com/news/29805019/detail.html#ixzz1gRd5ow3r
I think it may have been a combination of her cellphone pings and Dale's and maybe a sighting they haven't discussed.