yelling and demeaning and calling names. and told me how worthless i was. he didn t want to necessarily have the big fights in front of elizabeth. so he would wake me up at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. and yell at you? and yell at me. of course she was careful not to tell her colleagues this. ellen feared if she showed a chink in her emotional armor she would never be effective. they see she s emotional and that is the focus. it is all about the women thing. and they won t respect you anymore she said that now that mike was sick she would be there for him, as she promised through the good times and the bad. she asked to see him through this. she said what kind of wife would i be. in sickness and health. right. she wasn t going to leave him. but ellen said he had no problem leaving her.
worked for ten years, his name was rarely mentioned in conversation. after three or four years of mike being gone, it didn t come up too much anymore. we knew he was sick. we didn t really know if he was still in a hospital somewhere or if he had just passed away from his illness. his tools were no longer lying there unussed. ellen s son michael was using them. he had followed in mike s shoes and had become a mechanic, as well. on those rare occasions when ellen would come by the shop where mike had once worked, his old colleague dave would ask have you heard from mike and she would say no. there seemed to be no concern for mike and she would just, to no, i haven t seen mieng. it is often said the happiness and saddest of occasions bring mike s family together. and when they gathered to mourn the death of mike s father, any
ultimately ellen snyder agreed to waive the statute of limitations prestrixs and plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter admitting she shot her husband and she pled guilty to tampering with evidence for the burying and concealment of mike s body. and to one count of tax fraud for filing mike s tax returns after his death. in all, the maximum sentence possible was not life in prison, but just 11 years. mike s side of the family was devastating. she s definitely getting away with murder. nothing is going to be long enough for us. in july of 2011, sfrauns of both ellen and mike gathered in the courthouse for ellen s sentencing. ellen s son michael was there in
first-degree murder. that meant in order to get any conviction at all, prosecutors would have to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that ellen snyder planned mike snyder s murder and with no crime scene and it will until the way of forensics, that was going to be hard to prove. in her view, it was self defense, but maybe she was guilty of manslaughter, second-degree murder. but you couldn t prosecute her for either of those offenses. that s correct. the statute of limitations here in new mexico on a state case like this prohibited us from going forward on any of those lesser types of offenses. ellen snyder s defense attorney penny adrian knew a first-degree murder conviction could mean a life sentence for ellen, but felt the prosecution would have a tough time making their case. the premeditation would be hard to prove, but even harder would be to prove that she did not act in self defense given all of the things that were going on with mike. adrian says that after yea
so with a few computer key strokes and without the family s 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. each day justin chooses to walk. at work. and after work. he does it all with dr. scholl s. only dr. scholl s has massaging gel insoles that provide all-day comfort. to keep him feeling more energized. dr. scholl s. born to move. happiness is powerful flea and tick protection from nexgard. nexgard kills fleas and ticks all month long. and it comes in an easy-to-give tasty chew.