they have mosquitoes the size of dogs. you see speeders as big as your hand. you see weird stuff, stuff that you ve never seen before. josh snodgrass grew up in the philippines. his father joe is a u.s. military officer at the base near manila. his mother julie was from mississippi and had trouble adjusting to life overseas. the nicest woman you could have ever met. there wasn t a bad bone in her body. julie, as warm as she was to the american community, she wasn t crazy about the philippines. there were some people, probably not surprising, that didn t like the philippines. on february 25th, 1991, joe snodgrass called police to report his wife missing. he said they had an argument. he said, i thought she was going to go cool off. this sort of thing has happened before where she storms out. military records show that
again, this time using local law enforcement. i think she was more comfortable talking to filipino investigators than to american investigators. and she started changing her story. in a remarkable turnaround, lucy now admitted taking part in julie s murder. she described how joe came to her, explained to her that he wanted his wife dead, that he couldn t live with his wife anymore, and wanted her out of the way. lucy said she hired her two uncles to carry out the murder, and they, in turn, hired a third man to help them. and so the story she told subsequently was devastating. but, see, that s not the end of everything because, hold it, when was she lying? was she lying the first time or the second time? when confronted with lucy s
and make a payment to an informant. julie did what her husband asked. but when she got to the off-base destination, she realized she had been set up, and she knew who was behind it. while she was being stabbed to death, julie snodgrass cried out, in english, i hate you, joe. i hate you, joe. the circumstances even more vile than if he had taken a knife himself and killed her. you know, the manipulation that took place, the planning that took place. apparently, lucy believed that joe would marry her and take her to the united states when his tour of duty was over. they would have lived comfortably on the $400,000 from julie s life insurance. sergeant joe snodgrass was sentenced to life in a military
investigators found two floppy disks on joe snodgrass desk which they thought might hold evidence of his complicity in his wife s murder plot. but before they checked the disks, investigators wanted to make sure they actually belonged to joe snodgrass and weren t someone else s. so they asked him to come to the interrogation room to identify them. joe snodgrass was in a cooperative posture. he s a law enforcement official. and so if someone is investigating, well, naturally, you try to cooperate so you can get him off the suspect list. as snodgrass investigated the discs, investigators were distracted. he pulled out a pair of scissors and shredded the discs. they tried to get the scissors away from him.
confession, joe snodgrass angrily denied any involvement in the murder of his wife and called his former housekeeper a liar. to prove it, he permitted investigators to search his house. they found these insurance policies under a mattress. hmm, and they said, under the mattress? he said, i really didn t want you to find those. a little suspicious looking. i didn t want you to find that. the policies revealed something troubling. joe had recently increased the amount of his wife s life insurance from $200,000 to over $400,000. and on joe s desk at work, investigators found even more potential evidence. they came up with a bunch of floppy disks, those big 5 1/4 inch disks that we used to use. just as the investigation was starting to take shape, joe s colleagues made a catastrophic