welcome back. i'm krcraig melvin. three years had gone since mike snyder disappeared. his family suspected he hadn't gone off on his own, that he was a victim of foul play. what they did not know is all this time police hadn't been looking for him, but that was about to change. here's josh. we would call missing persons and they would say someone would get back to us. in three years we had little to no contact with the police department. >> it turns out they weren't even looking for him. >> right. during that time he was not even in the database. >> it was now 2005. it had been three years since mike snyder left his home, his family, his whole life in albuquerque. no one had heard from the master mechanic, not even his little girl who was now 9 years old, a third grader. >> that was one big red flag for me and maybe the leading one that kept me bag, because i knew