welcome back. i m krcraig melvin. three years had gone since mike snyder disappeared. his family suspected he hadn t gone off on his own, that he was a victim of foul play. what they did not know is all this time police hadn t been looking for him, but that was about to change. here s josh. we would call missing persons and they would say someone would get back to us. in three years we had little to no contact with the police department. it turns out they weren t even looking for him. right. during that time he was not even in the database. it was now 2005. it had been three years since mike snyder left his home, his family, his whole life in albuquerque. no one had heard from the master mechanic, not even his little girl who was now 9 years old, a third grader. that was one big red flag for me and maybe the leading one that kept me bag, because i knew
so, he says, he reluctantly helped his mother wrap mike snyder s dead body in a waterproof tarp, place it in a hole in the backyard and put some construction waste on top of it. what s going through your mind at this time? i don t want to get caught. i don t want to go to jail. what am i doing? and michael told detectives about the breakdown he had a at mr. snyder s funeral. the one that the snyder family thought was so peculiar. i couldn t handle it. i had a breakdown. the family was staring at me and she s outside talking to me. she said is this what happened? and i i don t remember remember saying anything back. but now it was about that. i had the feeling that he was glad to finally get it off of his chest. he broke down somewhat. i can only imagine what it would be like keeping that type of secret.
hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret too. we never talked about what happened or why it happened. every marriage had its secrets and this one was no different. but what if the secret becomes bigger than you? i was just solving the problem. they were two people who had been unlucky in love the first time around. back then she was ellen sheffield in her early 30s, divorced with a young child. and looking for someone to share that next chapter of her life. then quite literally in walked mike snyder. and i said hi, mike, how are you doing? it was the fall of 91. auto mechanic mike snyder was
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 this. she might have committed first-degree murder and gotten away with it.
disappeared. the article didn t implicate you. yes, it did. i read it. it doesn t lay the blame at your feet. yes, it does. what did she say to you? she and michael had had a heated discussion and that the next morning when she woke up he was gone and he hadn t taken a vehicle. ellen told the detective she was pretty sure mike had initially moved to phoenix, home of his lover dave simmons. more recently she believed he moved on to the caribbean. she said he was probably on an island somewhere. we looked at land on st. croix. as far as i knew, he had gone to st. croix. and that s where he was with dave simmons. correct. in fact, ellen said she had spoken with mike over the years. he called a couple of times and you heard his voice. yes. and whatever he was, he was