they pleaded with police to take a fresh look at the case, and in the spring of 2005, the albuquerque police agreed. assigned was cold case detective mark wilson. the department said, yes, we ll look in to it. it s been three years. he left a young daughter behind. he left a house. the detective began to dig for any information on the missing mechanic. did any record of him exist? first, we look in to obviously the criminal end to see if he had been stopped or maybe there might be a police report on him somewhere. there was nothing. right. there s nothing. we also look in to the fact could he be dead somewhere. checked the medical investigators office and he s not there. right, he s not there. then i started to look in to see if there might be any indication of financial records that might indicate he was working somewhere and there was once again we came in to a dead end
not once, not twice, but repeatedly. i emptied the gun. i have never been so afraid in my life. he turned around and ran away from you. and you kept shooting. i did. i kept shooting. how far did he get? ten feet. then what happened? then the fell down. elizabeth, mike and ellen s 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didn t wake up. but ellen s son michael 17 was in his bedroom and he did. he was calling 911. i told him to hang it up, michael. and he hung up. and he hung up and i sat down on the step waiting for the police to come. but the police never did show. i covered him up. i told michael to get ready for school. i told him i shot mike. you need to just go to school. how is michael doing at this point?
i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a problem. trying to get him situated to where i could get him, a board under him to move him to the garage. you couldn t do it asgloen i couldn t do it alone. so you asked your son. yep.
how is michael doing at this point? i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a problem. trying to get him situated to where i could get him, a board under him to move him to the
albuquerque police chief ray shultz. it s not against the law to be a missing person unless there is suspicious circumstances. and chief shultz was right in saying that mike was totally within his rights to walk out and cut off ties with everyone in his life. the people he loved, the people he no longer loved. and so the investigation was limited to that of a missing person. winter 2002 turned to spring. no one heard from mike snyder. his expensive mechanics tools lay unused at work. ellen now a single mom filed for divorce. she was awarded the house, the money in their joint account, and sole custody of their daughter elizabeth. when your daughter, mike s daughter, would say to you, wrds daddy? what would you say. i didn t know. that he had left because he was mad at mommy.