ultimately ellen snyder agreed to waive the statute of limitations restrictions and plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter, admitting that she shot her husband. she also pled guilty to tampering of evidence for burying and concealing his body, and one count of tax fraud for filing mike s tax returns after his death. in all the maximum sentence possible was not life but just 11 years. mike s side of the family was devastated. whether she is sentenced to four years, five years, six years, seven years, 11 years, she has still gotten away with it? she is definitely getting away with murder. nothing will be long enough for us. in july 2011, family and friends of both ellen and mike gathered in the county district courthouse for ellen s