franklin county sits on the outskirts of gettysburg, pennsylvania, a must-see for tourists and military historians alike. but the locals found the lives of melvin and joanne snyder for more interesting than those civil war battlefields. on saturday, may 25, 1985, joanne snyder left for work around 5:30 a.m. she baked pies for a local diner. when she returned home around noon, her 43-year-old husband melvin was gone. and so was his truck. >> she looked around for him, and observed some things that she felt were out of the ordinary. first of all, he left his tools out. melvin snyder was very meticulous about his things. he was very careful about his things. he wouldn't have just left his tools laying about. >> joanne called some of her family to come over and help look for melvin. >> while searching the property a family member found a .25-caliber shell casing on the barn floor.