but his sister terry says that he was going to end it. i think he was in the process of going to leave her. he was moving belongings to my mother s house. their daughter was six years old. and very much that these little girl. and michael, her son from her first marriage was only 17. a high school junior. how was he to michael. the older michael got, the more harsh he was with him. but then mike schneider got sick. and life inside the home grew much worse. for just about everyone in the family. his body would go numb. he would pass out. he was in severe pain. it was a summer of 2001 when mike went to go see a doctor. the doctor said, it s an onset in case of multiple sclerosis. multiple sclerosis. there is no cure. and it would go from a
right? i m thinking like what s going to happen when we come on? the way they adapted is like amazing. it was a marriage. between the two styles. so what was it like when you were a kid growing up. d.c. has gone through so many changes. you see people get robbed, shot, it was kind of rough. i lost two brothers to the streets. i lost one of my brothers right in front of my mother s house. it is, you know, it was rough. it s a rough thing to deal with. and it s still rough. believe it or not. i believe it. this is still america and the d.c. police department is like many police departments in this country. they blame violence and crime on black culture and music. the councilman didn t know what to do about the violence. they associated the things that happen outside of the go-go with the go-go.
minor threat. looking at minor threat and these people look like they are biting. the mosh pit. oh, hell, they arrived. that s the way they dance, right? i m thinking like what s going to happen when we come on? the way they adapted is like amazing. it was a marriage. between the two styles. so what was it like when you were a kid growing up. d.c. has gone through so many changes. you see people get robbed, shot, it was kind of rough. i lost two brothers to the streets. i lost one of my brothers right in front of my mother s house. it is, you know, it was rough. it s a rough thing to deal with. and it s still rough. believe it or not.
i said yes, we re over here. by that time, my husband was returning to help as well and they got her into a roll lg chair. that s where you see her just now getting out of the wreckage. it s just, it was devastating. when you say everything piled on top of you, so if you can, just walk us through those moments because you were in your home as all of this happened. the roof is torn off. then you re left under this debris. yes. when we first got the alert, my husband was next door. my mom and i are neighbors. he came from the mobile home and walked up to my mother s house. i called him and he entered into the house in a immediately told my son to go to the bathroom. and my son went into the bathroom, my husband went with
eight years in a marriage that was neither equal or loving. you were afraid to step up to him? absolutely. eight years of living a lie to the outside world in that big home that she and her husband mike had worked so hard to build. but ellen wouldn t leave. determined to make her marriage work. i wasn t going to be a failure at another marriage. mike hung on as well, but his sister terry says mike was thinking of ending it. ible he was in the process of trying to leave her. he was moving belongings to my mother s house. mike and ellen s daughter elizabeth was now 6 years old and very much daddy s little girl and michael, his son from her first marriage, was 17. she got sick and life inside that home grew much worse for