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.
already know the answers to. you knew this day was coming ever since you were 17 years old. how you answer the questions and your honesty here is really going to change your life from this moment on. okay. all right. detective wilson here has been investigating the disappearance of your step father. why don t you tell me right now that you know what happened to your step dad, michael snyder. michael snyder who helped to raise you. at first, michael tells the same story that ellen has told since the day michael disappeared. remember what i told you. that s what your mother told you.
be like keeping that type of secret. the detective showed michael photographs of the snyder s property as it looked in 2002. and had michael circle where he believed his step father s body was buried. did michael believe he was on the hook for his part in this? i think he probably knew that he was. he knew he was an accomplice in the case. a few miles away, michael s mom, ellen snyder was ending her work day. when i came out from work, his girlfriend came by. she was sitting in her car next to my car. she said you need to get in the car. she told ellen that michael had called. the police had shown up at his work and they knew the secret. so i called my mom and said i need to come over. she is like, are you okay and i said no.
mortgage. and it s clearly not my brother s signature on either line. that s true, ellen says. she did sign mike s name, but says mike knew all about it. the more teri thought about mike, the more she remembered his growing frustration with ellen in the months before he disappeared. he would interseed phone calls that collectors were calling wanting to know why their credit cards were past due and all of these things he had no idea of. these were bills he thought ellen run up and not identity theft. right. not long after mike disappeared, ellen found herself in debt. she had 20 creditors and owed more than $120,000 on her credit cards. did mike know about the debt before he dropped by her work? is that why mike had showed up in a rage? had he discovered the financial mess in to which she put their family? and if mike had been abusive, had ellen come to the conclusion that she could solve that problem with a gun? detective wilson was growing
i would call and leave a message and my messages weren t being returned. they kind of, i think, put the case on the back burner, i believe. detective wilson did continue to look for mike snyder but wilson had to also focus on the 20 other cold cases that needed his attention. and then one day in 2010, came a phone call that would break this case. a confidential informant who said he knew exactly where mike snyder was. must have sounded good to you. i am not go ing to say it wasn t going anywhere but didn t be pointing to any resolution. correct. that s when you