but mike s toolbox was still at work. worth around $40,000. so everyone assumed he would return. that is, until allen broke the news about mike leaving town. i asked him how mike was doing. she said mike was in phoenix, or in arizona. he s living in arizona. it was also puzzling to mike s family because they could understand why mike wasn t talking to allen. but why wasn t he talking to them? their calls went straight to voice mail. we knew that he was not doing well. and we knew that he was thinking about leaving island. so we were very concerned as to why we haven t heard from him. was everything as it seemed? was mike really in phoenix? if so, what was he doing there? coming up. house hearing room was that he went to the caribbean. just disappeared. where was mike. the mystery deepens, and suspicions begin. i believe he fell victim of
allen was becoming increasingly suspicious of exactly what mike was doing on those long trips away from his family, and from her. i felt hurt, betrayed, that had gone along all this time as the good wife for his m.s.. then, one night, mike was in the shower and his cell phone was sitting there on the table next to allen. curiosity, she says, got the better of her. she picked up his phone and opened it. solutions of the messages. i listen to the messages. what a shock that was. one message in particular from a man she never heard mike mention. someone named, dave symonds. a man allen believes was the reason mike was spending so much time in phoenix. he would talk about how satisfied he was with their sexual contact.
he would be explicit as to what each had done to each other. so there really wasn t any question? there was no question. no. none. it was january 11th 2002. allen says i like some nights before mike walker for the nightly screaming match. this one was around two or three in the morning. allen, who had never directly confronted mic about anything, now told him she knew all about the affair michaels having with dave symonds. the man from phoenix will have those explicit voice messages on myself phone. there was, allen says, a heated argument. then mike left the next morning. at the jeep dealership for mike worked, colleagues knew only that he had been out sick for a while. we didn t know if it was cancer or he had come back or not come back. we had no idea. this is like losing the star player? pretty much, yes.
been unlucky and loved the first time around. back then she was alan sheffield, an early 30s, divorced with a young child. and looking for someone to share that next chapter of her life. and then, quite literally, in walked mike snider. i said hi mike, how are you. doing it was the fall of 91. auto mechanic, mike snider, was visiting a friend at the car dealership where she worked. he was corresponding about the redhead who greeted him with a big hello. he remembered why was. but he got back to work and called back over to find out why was. turned out they had worked together years before, this, time the quick encounter led to a fixed up by mutual friends. opposites attracted. the quite an introverted life hit off with the talkative and outgoing allen. he left flowers on my car,
chunk of her emotional armor she would never again be effective. they see you are emotional that becomes the focus. they talk about the woman thing. right. but she did say allow that now that michael was sick she d be there for him. as she promised. through the good times and the bad. she has to see him through this. she says what kind of why put i be? and sickness and in health. she wasn t going to leave him. but allen says he had no problem leaving her. in fact, michael spending more and more time away from allen and his family. he was going back and forth between albuquerque and phoenix. that is where g pell was continuing his education classes and auto mechanics. he still wanted to go to training. because i m going to training all along through his work. but a two-day trip became three days. and for days. then a week.