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. 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
are just looking at each other and poking each other thinking, what? michael cried so hysterically that his mother ellen had to escort the 20-year-old out of the room. were with he and your father close? not close, per se. i mean he was no closer to my father than he was my mother. it i was a very odd occurrence that we all took note of. there was something else that teri remembers about that day. something that enraged her. ellen at some point comes up to my sister and asks about my father s will. and wanted to know if there was anything in the will provision for his daughter, for mike s daughter. and she s asking about money. and she s asking about money. and the more she thought about it, the more teri had a sinking feeling that ellen knew something about mike s disappearance.
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 more and more skeptical of ellen snyder s story 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
mike hung on as well but his sister teri says mike was thinking of ending it. i believe 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, ellen s son from her first marriage, was 17, a high school junior. how was mike as a father toward michael? the older michael got the more harsh he was with him. then mike snyder got sick and life in the home grew much worse 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
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 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