ellen s 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didn t wake up but ellen s son michael who s 17 was in his bedroom and he did. he was calling 911. i told him to hang up, mierkal. reporter: and he hung up. and he hung up. and i sat down on the steps and waited for the police to come. reporter: 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 just need to go to school. reporter: how was michael doing at this point? i thought he was doing okay. reporter: evidently, michael was not okay. he skipped school that day and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this, or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become like the thing you re not talking about? right. we never talked about it. reporter: once you said to him, i shot mike, go to
to 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 the information she had. he wanted to meet with you. he didn t say that. he says he did. he never, ever asked me to come down, ever. instead, ellen mailed the detective some paperwork that she d found in mike s desk. a western union money transfer from mike snyder to dave simmons in the amount of $200. a u-hall receipt with dave simmons name and number, and a copy of mike s cell phone bill from december, 2001, right before he disappeared, which showed a number of phone calls to that same telephone number. you gave detective wilson all the documentation you had on dave simmons. yes. unfortunately, ellen no longer had the voice mail, the one she claims to have discovered on mike s cell phone. the sexually explicit one from
classic battered wife s explanation for her bruises? a few days later cassell says he heard yelling coming from ellen s office. i hear world war iii breaking loose in the office next to me. there was a guy screaming in there. reporter: turns out the loud, angry voice belonged to none other than mike snyder. he s standing on this side of the desk, she s standing on her side of the desk and he s just screaming and he stops. and i barge in and he looks at me, i told him, i said you know, you can t do this here and he basically told me i needed to mind my own f ing business. reporter: her colleague frank had nothing but good intentions volunteered to loan ellen a .32 caliber semiautomatic pistol. showed her how to use it, explained a bunch of things to her, 10-minute please don t shoot yourself lesson. i never had one before. he offered me the gun after he saw my bruises. i took it home, put it in the back of the closet.
just about everyone in the snyder family. his body would go numb. he was in severe pain. it was the summer of 2001 when mike went to see a doctor. the doctor came in and said we believe that it s an onsetting multiple sclerosis. there s no cure and it can range from a manageable disease to paralysis and even death. mike was put on projection treatments to slow the progression of the disease. ellen gave him the shots. it was my place. i was his wife. i was to take care of him. as time went on, mike s work colleagues mike chuck wyatt noticed a physically weaker mike. he was just kind of struggling to make it through the day. we weren t told what actually he had or what was going on, but he was not coming in to work as often or every day. when he couldn t work at the
the national missing person s database. ellen had said he was not missing. and back then that was good enough for the police. there should have been obviously a little bit more investigation done, other than just the word of ellen snyder. so all this time that you saw police were looking for him, they weren t looking for him at all. they weren t looking for him at all. m at all to provide access to education for all. -to rid the world of aids, -once and for all. we have the power. to choose to include. to create clean energy. to raise capital. and be fearless entrepreneurs. to understand different perspectives. we stand behind all our partners working to make a difference. what would you like the power to do? we stand behind all our partners working to make a difference. if your moderate to severeor crohn s symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn t worked well enough it may be time for a change.