marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can t imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s.
lesser types of offenses. her defense attorney, benny abraham knew a first degree murder conviction could mean a life sentence for elon. but felt the prosecution would have a tough time making their case. premeditation would be hard to prove. but even harder would be proving she did not act in self-defense. given all the things that were going on. adrian said ellen acted after years of emotional and physical abuse. this guy was treating her horribly. that is right, it happened for a long long time. no. that s with the cycle of abuse is all about. they re in isolation, there is a competitive scene, there is a demeaning factor. those things will all go together and so the abuser has turned the abused into someone who thinks that he, or she,
when they came out from work his girlfriend came by. she was sitting in her car next to him. she says, you need to get the car. she told him that michael had called. the police had shown up at his work. and they knew the secrets. so i called my mom and said i need to come over. and she was like, are you okay? i said no. with that her mother phoned an old acquaintance of hers. a defense attorney named penny adrian. her mom calls me up and said, i think we have a problem. there was apparently something very wrong. the next morning she went to meet with adrian. by then the story was breaking. breaking news, albuquerque police have an active crime scene investigation going on. police tell us that a confidential source told them that the remains of snider are buried underneath the garage of this home. but she just sat really
two more days. finally on the third day, searchers uncovered a waterproof tarp. inside were the remains of mike snyder. she had been saying mike was in phoenix and mike this and that and all along mike wasn t in phoenix. for mike s family the finality is devastating. to not know eight years and hold on to hope and have that pulled out from under you was very difficult for all of us. ellen snyder sat in defense attorney penny adrian s office knowing an arrest was imminent. they found the body and she wanted to get it over with. she said you can t go on like this. so adrian informed the police that ellen snyder was ready to turn herself in. that following friday, i met with the police detectives at her office, gave a full