marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can t imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s.
before he went on the kill spree, he had gotten into an argument with his grandmother. ramos reportedly shot her in the face. got in his car, wrecked near rob robb elementary school which where you can see here, grabbed his rifle and headed to the school. and he choreographed his despicable intentions online. just minutes before the massacre, here is governor greg abbott earlier today. the first was to the point of he said i m going to shoot my grandmother. the second post was: i shot my grandmother. the third post maybe less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school was i m going to shoot an elementary school. jesse: we just learned today that an on campus officer did exchange gunfire with ramos before he went into the school. this is ramos caught on camera entering from a back door. when ramos got inside, officers say he barricaded himself in a classroom and opened fire. he just began shooting numerous children and teachers in that classroom having no regard for h
ellen had actually tried to purchase another gun at a local pawnshop one month earlier. she was turned down after a routine background check. you couldn t? what happened. there was a fraud charge. what did you do to get you in trouble? i was working for a company that i wrote a check on. it turns out that in the late 80s she had pled guilty to embezzlement. the charges were dropped after her probation. suddenly, her skeletons were starting to see the light of day. and while detective wilson did his investigative work mike s sister terry, a schoolteacher, was doing hers. she told the detective about a second mortgage that ellen without mike s knowledge. we actually have a copy of the document of the second mortgage and it is clearly not my brother signature on even lined. that is true she says. she did sign mics name.
here again, josh mankiewicz. mike snyder had been missing for eight long years. his family didn t know where he was and the detective investigating the case had a hunch that mike s wife ellen was somehow involved. a co-worker of ellen s came afford saying he had loaned ellen his gun and when she returned it a few months later, there were no bullets. he looked at it, looked at her and said where s the bullets. ellen said that she went to a gun range with a friend who showed her how to use it. and detective wilson had discovered that ellen had actually tried to purchase another gun at a local pawnshop one month earlier. she was turned down after a routine background check. you couldn t. what happened? it was a fraud charge. what did you do to get in trouble. i was working for a company that i wrote a check on.