mike was no longer there to tormentor. to belittle her. your husband was waking up in the middle of the night to yell at you. that is right. it was just you in the kids? now just mean the kids. ellen said she tried to reach him, but couldn t. and neither could his family. he wasn t returning their calls either. mike sister, mary. so right. and you re thinking, his a messes terry so she knew that mike was planning on leaving ellen soon. the family knew that much, or soon get. but he wasn t supposed to leave everyone. he would never have done that to his family. he would have at least given her, i don t want to be contacted, please leave me in my space. i mean to be okay. but they said that ellen seemed more relaxed. like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
do. but, i have never seen any violent temper and my brother. you know, there are no documented visits to police or house i know that. it was a few months later, when ellen would turn the gun to her colleague. he looked at it, he looked at her, and said, was the bullets? ellen said her friend had taken her gun range in showed or how to use it. dateline returns after the break. pulls in on parking alone? alright, no more talking about parking lots. a lot of these are compact spots. it s not pretty. progressive can t protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. we still planning to head out around the third quarter? let s not talk about leaving before we re actually at the game. some home fragrances can be. overwhelming.
talk to your eczema specialist about dupixent, josh mankiewicz: just months after she shot her husband and filed for divorce, ellen was awarded just months after she shot her husband and filed for divorce, ellen was awarded the couple s home and the cash in their joint account. remember those tax returns that had been filed in mike s name after he disappeared? turns out it was ellen who filed them in order to get a refund. she also cashed out mike s $60,000 401(k) and continued to collect the disability checks mike had been getting because of his multiple sclerosis. you kept cashing those checks for a year. those checks were deposited in to my account. totaling how much money. 4 grand a month. it must have helped.
and then one day in 2010 came a phone call that would break this case. a confidential informant who said he knew exactly where mike snyder was. ed looked in the yard. not found anything. not found mike. not been able to talk to ellen. i m not going to say it wasn t going anywhere, but it certainly didn t seem to be pointing immediately to any resolution. correct. and that is when you had this call? yes. detective mark wilson was sitting in his office when a most unexpected call came in. the caller, a confidential source, who said that he had information on mike snyder. who was this confidential source? somebody that was a friend with michael sheffield. ellen s son. ellen s son.
adrian says ellen acted after years of emotional and physically abuse. this guy was treating her horribly. that s right and had been for a long, long time. and she couldn t leave him? no. no. and that s what the cycle of abuse is all about. there s an isolation. there s a dependency, there s a demeaning factor. and those things will all go together until the abuser has turned the abused in to someone who thinks that he or she, because it happens both ways, is a worthless person. would ellen snyder spend the rest of her life behind bars, or had she committed the perfect murder? is it possible she s going to walk? it s certainly possible in this case. she could walk away from this. she might have committed first-degree murder and gotten away with it. dateline returns after the break. away with it. dateline returns after the break.