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.
is known for its large subdivisions in the foothills of the sandia mountains, not for a crime scene vehicles and use helicopters flying overhead. but in february 2010, this was the scene in front of the home where allen and mike snider once lived. out in the street it was as a people like jeff proctor was talked out for three days of men with jackhammers and backhoes began tearing up the garage floor. we continue to follow breaking news right now. if you lived in albuquerque you would ve had to wear earplugs not to hear about it. we spoke to the police chief and she told said the police is here for the remains of michael snider. mechanic, jim hurtado a, longtime friend of elephants was at work when the news broke. i couldn t believe it. so you really believed that he left her, and he was in
have them escorted out. after all, mike s deceased father was a grandfather to elizabeth. and step grandfather to allen s son, michael. we let them come up to the casket. you know, have the bereavement time? all of a sudden we realize that michael was just hysterical. just crying uncontrollably. at that point my sister and i are just looking at each other, poking each other, thinking what? michael cried so hysterically that his mother ellen had to escort the 20-year-old out of the room. where he and your father close? not close, per se. he was no closer to my father then he was my mother. so it was a very odd occurrence that we all just didn t know about. there is something else that terry members about that day. something that enraged her. ellen, at some point, comes up to my sister and asks about my father s will.
i. then he comes and steps forward and i start shooting. using some credit detective work wilson had an idea. he remembered something that michael, allen son have mentioned in this interview with police. something about a stereo speaker. not all the bullets that the body. some of them went through a speaker. like the bottom of the speaker. i still have that speaker. the detective went back to the house with michael. and awesome to show where the speaker was positioned on the floor. where it was in relation to where mike slapped. detective wilson came to this hypothesis. it appeared to me that michael was laying in his bed when he was shot. not up in advancing on ellen to do her harm? exactly. handed the medical investigator reported that the projectiles came up through the victims
the years. mike had called a couple of times and you heard his voice? yes. wherever he was, he was not accurate you anymore, but at least two of you were talking and a non angry way about the kids. i think we were still angry. i think i still told him that we are still angry. but that he was gone, and it wasn t coming back. right. mike sister terry hadn t yet learned about mike s relationship with the mustard they ve simmons, or about the accusation that her brother was secretly gay. ellen did not share any of that with terry and solve two years after mika disappeared. she told other people about it. not us. she didn t seem to throw that out to us at first. i need that make any sense to you? no. i don t play for one minute that my brother is gay. that was only one of the components of allen s story that detective wilson wanted to check out. he says he asked ellen to come down to the police department