knowledge or any further investigation, mike snyder s name was literally wiped out of the national missing person s database. ellen had said he was not missing. and back then that was good enough for the police. there should have been obviously a little more investigation done other than just the word of ellen snyder. all of this time that you thought police were looking for him, they weren t looking for him at all? they weren t looking for him at all. veggies, but are you getting enough of their nutrients? new one a day with nature s medley is the only complete multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies. new from one a day.
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.
people, that there s more to the story than you are telling. they didn t live through what we lived through. they weren t there that night. with ellen snyder now sitting in jail, detective wilson was trying to determine if the shooting happened the way that ellen now said it did because, after all, how believable was ellen? we tried to gather information six, seven years later, we don t have the actual crime scene. at that time, they would have seen blood streams from where he first got shot to where the body was laying, to where the bullet projectiles had stopped. ellen claimed that mike woke her up yelling and they fought in the family room where mike slept. i m in the middle of the family room and he s about as as far as you and i facing me.
i m going to tell everybody about you and he s telling me, you will never tell anybody about me. you are not going to tell anything. there s nothing to tell. he s denying it. he s screaming at me. i have never seen him so angry. ever. woke me up. it was 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. we were arguing. pushing back and forth and i told him, i know all about you and dave simmons. i know that you are gay. ellen said she had recently grown more courageous in her dealings with mike, and on this night she confronted her husband over what she says was a secret gay affair. i am yelling at him and he s yelling at me and i said i m going to tell everybody. i m going to tell everybody about you and he s telling me, you will never tell anybody about me. you are not going to tell anything. there s nothing to tell. he s denying it. he s screaming at me.
a year after mike left her, ellen said she could no longer afford that home they built together. now that she only had her salary. so she sold the house and she and her kids, michael and elizabeth moved to a much smaller one. it was fall 2003 when ellen received a followup call from the albuquerque police department. the investigator wanted to know if she had spoken with mike. you said what? i say that i don t consider him missing. that he is right where he wants to be. that he left me with this gay boyfriend and that i haven t heard from him since. police seemed to find it understandable that perhaps ellen didn t really care much about mike s whereabouts at that point. they never asked me anymore questions. ever show up at your house? nope. whatever suspicions mike s side of the family had police apparently didn t share them. so with a few computer key strokes and without the family s