else the police could do or frankly would do. albuquerque police chief ray shultz. it s not against the law to be a missing person unless there is suspicious circumstances. and chief shultz was right in saying that mike was totally within his rights to walk out and cut off ties with everyone in his life. the people he loved, the people he no longer loved. and so the investigation was limited to that of a missing person. winter 2002 turned to spring. no one heard from mike snyder. his expensive mechanics tools lay unused at work. ellen now a single mom filed for divorce. she was awarded the house, the money in their joint account, and sole custody of their daughter elizabeth. when your daughter, mike s daughter, would say to you, wrds daddy? what would you say.
more and more skeptical of ellen snyder s stoimpl and so was mike s sister teri. without any real proof that ellen had something to do with mike s disappearance, there was nothing that could be done about those aching suspicions. there was nothing that could tangibly prove murder enough to get an arrest warrant for it until they had a body. and another four years passed. mike s sister teri became more and more dissatisfied with the progress detective wilson is making. i think at first he was very zealous. he felt that, you are right, a lot of this isn t adding up and i believe at first they worked very hard to find my brother. as the years went by, the unknown had become unbearable for the snyder family. they wanted answers from the police. i think he got very upset with me that i was being pushy. our phone conversations got less and less.
is there anything else you want to say before we turn off the recorder? i want to say i m not a horrible killer. and with that 50-year-old ellen snyder was charged with first-degree murder and held on one million bail. albuquerque police announce they have arrested the ex-wife of a albuquerque man who vanished eight years ago. an eight year old cover-up was over, but another story line was just beginning. did mike snyder have it coming? was ellen guilty of anything? and what could be proven after so many years? a startling police discovery. it appeared to me that michael snyder was laying in his bed when he was shot. and simply more startling still. she could walk away from
for almost nempb the snyder s family. his body would go numb. he would pass out. he was in veer pain. it was the summer of 2001 when mike went to see a doctor. the doctor came in and said we believe it is an onsetting case of multiple sclerosis. multiple sclerosis. there s no cure and it can range from to death. and mike was pu put on medication to slow the disease and ellen gave him the shots. it was my place. i was his wife. i was to take cake of him. as time went on, mike s work colleagues like chuck noticed a physically weaker mike. he was 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.
so with a few computer key strokes and without the family s knowledge or any further investigation, mike snyder s name was literally wiped out of 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 more investigation done other than just the word of ellen snyder. all of this time that you thought police were looking for him, they weren t looking for him at all? they weren t looking for him at all. ing] you don t want to cancel your plans. [sneezing] cancel your cold. the 1-pill power of new advil multi-symptom cold & flu knocks out your worst symptoms. cancel your cold, not your plans. new advil multi-symptom cold & flu. overwhelming air fresheners can send you running. so try febreze one. with no aerosols and no heavy perfumes. so you can spray and stay.