shrinking violet whose home cowering under her husband s direction. when it came to being home and opening that door i was that shrinking violet. that s how it was. two different ellens, two different lives. they interviewed ellen s old boss. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. she was wearing her sunglasses. i said why are you wearing sunglasses. she finally took off her sunglasses and she had a nice big old shiner and i said what happened to you. she stated to me that supposedly mike and michael got in to a big battle and mike was beating the crap out of him and she jumped in the middle of it and took the brunt of it. was she giving the classic battered wife explanation for her bruises?
but there was that problem with the statute of limitations expired on anything less than first-degree murder. there was a chance that ellen snyder could be found not guilty. mike s family was willing to risk that. we felt that that strongly that it was premeditated. it was a gamble we were willing to take. when it comes to murder, prosecutor isn t willing to gamble. maybe she gets convicted of first-degree murder and maybe that s what he did all along and that would have been justice but with all or nothing when you try to convince beyond a reasonable doubt 12 jurors. you didn t want to roll the dice. a huge risk to roll the dice and not have somebody held accountable at all for the death of another human being. it was a risk for ellen, too. she knew going to trial could mean a life sentence. one month before the case was
job at a big company. yes. so you are not some little shrinking violet whose home cowering under her husband s direction. when it came to being home and opening that door i was that shrinking violet. that s how it was. two different ellens, two different lives. they interviewed ellen s old boss. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. she was wearing her sunglasses. i said why are you wearing sunglasses. she finally took off her sunglasses and she had a nice big old shiner and i said what happened to you. she stated to me that supposedly mike and michael got in to a big battle and mike was beating the crap out of him and she jumped in the middle of it and took the brunt of it.
not once, not twice, but repeatedly. i emptied the gun. i have never been so afraid in my life. he turned around and ran away from you. and you kept shooting. i did. i kept shooting. how far did he get? ten feet. then what happened? then the fell down. elizabeth, mike and ellen s 6-year-old daughter was fast asleep in the bedroom. she didn t wake up. but ellen s son michael 17 was in his bedroom and he did. he was calling 911. i told him to hang it up, michael. and he hung up. and he hung up and i sat down on the step waiting for the police to come. but the police never did show. i covered him up. i told michael to get ready for school. i told him i shot mike. you need to just go to school. how is michael doing at this point?
mike snyder s side of the family had spent many years waiting. they had waited for mike to call after he disappeared. he never did. they d waited for the police to call when investigators first said they would look for him. that didn t happen either. years later, with ellen snyder sitting in jail facing a murder charge for killing mike, they waited for justice. finally ellen snyder would pay the price for the murder of mike snyder and the cover-up that followed. at least that s what mike s side of the family fully expected. but there was that problem with