dave simmons or about the accusation her brother was secretly gay. ellen didn t share any of that with teri until a few years after mike di appeared. she told other people about it at the time. not us. she didn t seem to throw that out to us at first. any of that make any sense to you? oh, goodness, no. i don t believe for one minute that my brother is gay. that was only one of the components to ellen s story that detective wilson wanted to check out. he said he asked ellen to come down to the police department to meet with him in person. only she wouldn t. she said he s not missing. we said we want to find him and even asking her to come in and help us find him she would not come in. and so ellen and detective wilson never did meet face to face. she claims she was giving him all of the information you had. you weren t giving him what he needed. he wanted to meet with him. he never said that.
hope of return evaporated. that was the final straw. we were on board that my brother would have definitely shown up for his own father s funeral. but ellen and their children showed up. they no longer kept in touch with the family but seen the death announcement in the newspaper and came to pay their respects. we weren t expecting them. so it was a little strange, kind of caught us off guard but once again we are in a state of mourning. dedon t want to create issues. we weren t going to have them escorted out. after all, mike s deceased father was the grandfather to elizabeth and step grandfather to ellen s son michael. we let them come up to the casket, have their bereavement time and all of a sudden we noticed michael was hysterical, crying uncontrollably. at that point, my sister and i are just looking at each other and poking each other thinking, what? michael cried so hysterically
i want you to understand these are your mir ran a da and constitutional rights. she gave police a 2 1/2 hour confession and her version of events is quite a story. 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.
right. not long after mike disappeared, ellen found herself in debt. she had 20 creditors and owed more than $120,000 on her credit cards. did mike know about the debt before he dropped by her work? is that why mike had showed up in a rage? had he discovered the financial mess in to which she put their family? and if mike had been abusive, had ellen come to the conclusion that she could solve that problem with a gun? detective wilson was growing more and more skeptical of ellen snyder s stoimpl and so was mike s sister teri. without any real proof that ellen had something to do with mike s disappearance, there was nothing that could be done about those aching suspicions. there was nothing that could tangibly prove murder enough to get an arrest warrant for it until they had a body. and another four years
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. what happened? he stepped forward and i start shooting. using creative detective work, wilson had an idea. he remembered something that michael, ellen s son had mentioned in his interview with police. something about a stereo speaker.