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.
evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day. he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk about this? from the first minute that this happened this has become the thing you re not talking about. we never talked about it. thank shot my co-school. i don t talk about him? later, with michael elizabeth at school. helen plant move the body into the garage. but there was a problem. trying to get him situated the where i can get him under him to move him. you could not do it alone? i couldn t. so you asked your son. so i asked my son. yes. . you ask michael to help you move the body.
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? i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot
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? i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of
i thought he was doing okay. evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day, and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened, did this sort of become the thing you are not talking about. right. we never talked about it. once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. we didn t talk about it. later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a problem. trying to get him situated to where i could get him, a board under him to move him to the garage. you couldn t do it asgloen i couldn t do it alone. so you asked your son. yep.