Another thing that concerns me, is that we have not heard from anyone else outside of Dale's family, that can account for his whereabouts until very late at night...after LE had left his home or when he made that facebook page post at 11:08pm on the 17th stating that LE had just searched his whole house and had just departed.
Here is another thing that I find odd/interesting: LE reacted very quickly to her being missing. She is a 33 year old adult. I am sure her parent's/family impressed upon police that Michelle had a routine, would always respond to their calls/texts, was timely, etc...had a violent relationship with her ex (though I do believe that they had no clue about his criminal background or at least the extent of it)...but somehow within just a few hours of being reported missing, LE had galvanized into a full blown search for her. Searching Dale's condo that very evening.
I wonder if the police were able to turn on GPS on her Hummer and saw that its location was in a very different place from where her cell phone last pinged...and that combined with the record of Mr. Smith and their history...caused them to act immediately. Typically in adult missing person's cases unless they have medical problems...a lot of times, police will tell the family that the person is an adult...and may not take action until a day or so later. In this case, they acted swiftly and immediately. Leading to me to believe they knew from the very moment she went missing that something grave had had happened to her and that she was either dead or endangered.