never actually left home, after all. was this the big break that the case needed? the detective discussed it with mike sister. of course, i get both excited, intrigued, anxious, and i start asking him about some questions. the team tried to dig deeper, but the ground was hard. when did you find? we don t find anything. the dogs didn t they were excited about the whole itself. soon, the chokehold. the tip seemed like gold, and mike sister, terry was crushed. the detective was deflated. i had to think that, well, there s a possibility that maybe his body was somewhere else. i did have a feeling that mike snider was dead somewhere. the digging was over. but metaphorically, at least, detective wilson still held a shovel. he was trying to get to the bottom of what ellen snider had been doing around the time her
still angry. but that he was gone, and he wasn t coming back. right. mike s sister, terry, hadn t yet learned about mike sister with the mysterious dave simmons, or about the accusation that her brother was secretly gay. ellen didn t share any of that with terry, until a few years after mike had disappeared. she told other people about it, at the time. but, not us. she did so that out to us at first. and if that make any sense to you? oh, goodness, no. i don t believe for one minute them a rather is gay. that was only one of the components to ellen story that detective wilson wanted to check out. he says he asked allen to come down to the police department, to meet with him in person. only, she wouldn t. she said, he s not missing. we said, well we want to find him. even asking her to come in to help us find him, she would not come in. so, ellen and detective wilson never did meet face to face. she claims she was giving him
kill him right away. there was something else the detective uncovered that appeared a lot more sinister than a woman in fear for her life. it seemed ellen snyder had actually made a pretty penny off of mike s death. dateline returns after the break. ike s death. dateline returns after the break. you don t know how much pressure you put on your septic system. but rid-x does. in a 21 month study, scientists proved that rid- x reduces up to 20% of waste build up every month.
it was patrick, a motorcycle technician. he and michael had gone to high school together and were close friends. he had been living with me in my house with my son for months. they lived there rent free. out of the goodness of your heart? because it was michael s friend, yeah. he was a good kid. they needed some break. not only was he michael sheffield s good friend, patrick wassal ellen s employee at the r and s cause kawasaki motorcycle dealership where she was a service manager. my boss was giving me a lot of heat about patrick s productivity and his comebacks. so he told me in december that i needed to let him go, but he wanted to wait until after christmas. i kept him much longer than i would have because he was a friend. the first week of january, 2010, ellen fired patrick. she could not have known just how life altering that decision
ellen now held an executive level position at a large dealership. she was the boss to 30 mechanics, and making upwards of $90,000 a year. she put your feet to the fire, to make sure you get the job done and move on. she was no pushover. she was no pushover. she stood up for herself. right. inside the walls of that nice home, allen s rank was near the bottom. he became very condescending, controlling. where i could go, who i could see. at home, mike made the rules and ellen obeyed them. you had a significant executive job at a big company. yes. so, you re not some little shrinking violet, whose home cowering under her husband s direction? but, when it came to being home and opening that door, i was that shrinking violet. that s how things were, he ran the show. it was two different ellen s,