story he s been telling six, seven years. we have information, all right, that you assisted your mom in burying your step father in the backyard. no? you think we re here by chance? you think we are making this up. i don t know where you got your information but i would never no, no terrible crime. repeatedly the detective tells michael it s time for him to confess. i need you to be honest with us. i need you to right here on this picture show us where you buried the body. i didn t bury a body. yeah, you did. how long did it take him to come off that story? after we told him that we had information that he knew where the body was and wasn t little further and told him we heard him talking about it, he came forward after we showed him that we had evidence. tell us what happened and exactly where you buried the body. the detectives have broken him and the story came spilling out after eight years of lies. it was early morning, january twooun 2002, michael said, when
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
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.
the search for mike from the caribbean. that s where he was with dave simmons. correct. to his own backyard. the neighbor said she remembered michael and ellen digging out behind the garage, digging a hole.
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