valentine s day. ellen chalked it up to simply mike not being the most sensitive of man. it made you sad. i m not sure sad is the right word for it. i think i was a little confused at the time. confused or not, they stayed together and a few years later they married and then ellen became pregnant. they began to bill a 4,000 square foot house in an upscale subdivision in the foot hills of albuquerque. that house was our dream house. it was ready just in time for the baby. only mike wasn t ready. he wanted to stay at work on the day ellen was giving birth. so i called his boss. i said well, you know, i m in the hospital having a baby. he says, well, mike s here. i said yeah. he is. do you think you could send him? once again, maybe not the most sensitive husband, but mike loved that baby girl. they named her elizabeth. she was just the joy of my
doubt 12 jurors. you didn t want to roll the dice. a huge risk to roll the dice and not have somebody held accountable at all for the death of another human being. it was a risk for ellen, too. she knew going to trial could mean a life sentence. one month before the case was set for trial, prosecutors offered ellen a plea deal, which she accepted. 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
like the bottom of a speaker. i still have that speaker. the detective went back to the house with michael. asked him to show where the speaker was positioned on the floor and where it was in relation to where mike slept and detective wilson came to this hypothesis. it appeared to me that michael snyder was laying in his bed when he was shot. not up and advancing on ellen to do her harm. exactly. the office of the medical investigator reported the projectiles came up through the victim s body from down, stomach air up to the shoulder area. almost as if the person was lying flat and the shooter was standing at his feet? yes. my estimation was that the body was on the mattress when he was being fired at. he may have gotten up and started running, if it didn t kill him right away. there was something else the detective uncovered that appeared a lot more sinister than a woman in fear for her life. it seemed ellen snyder had actually made a pretty penny off of mike s death. wh
years later, with ellen snyder sitting in jail facing a murder charge for killing mike, they waited for justice. finally ellen snyder would pay the price for the murder of mike snyder and the cover-up that followed. at least that s what mike s side of the family fully expected. but there was that problem with the statute of limitations expired on anything less than first-degree murder. there was a chance that ellen snyder could be found not guilty. mike s family was willing to risk that. we felt that that strongly that it was premeditated. it was a gamble we were willing to take. when it comes to murder, prosecutor isn t willing to gamble. maybe she gets convicted of first-degree murder and maybe that s what he did all along and that would have been justice but with all or nothing when you try to convince beyond a reasonable
like there s something else i should be doing. with the right conversation, you might find you re doing okay. so, no hot dog suit? not unless you want to. no. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today with td ameritrade®. just months after she shot her husband and filed for divorce, ellen was awarded the couple s home and the cash in their joint account. remember those tax returns that had been filed in mike s name after he disappeared? turns out it was ellen who filed them in order to get a refund. she also cashed out mike s $60,000 401(k) and continued to collect the disability checks mike had been getting because of his multiple sclerosis. you kept cashing those checks for a year. those checks were deposited in to my account.