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Beyond a reasonable doubt that ellen snyder planned mike snyder s murder and with no crime scene and it will until the way of forensics, that was going to be hard to prove. in her view, it was self defense, but maybe she was guilty of manslaughter, second-degree murder. but you couldn t prosecute her for either of those offenses. that s correct. the statute of limitations here in new mexico on a state case like this prohibited us from going forward on any of those lesser types of offenses. ellen snyder s defense attorney penny adrian knew a first-degree murder conviction could mean a life sentence for ellen, but felt the prosecution would have a tough time making their case. the premeditation would be hard to prove, but even harder ....
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 the statute of limitations expired on anything less than first-degree murder. there was a chance that ellen ....
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 ....
there are some things ellen snyder admits. she admits that she shot and killed her husband mike snyder in the early-morning hours of january 11th, 2002. she admits that she buried his body and lied about his disappearance for years, but she does not admit to being guilty of murder. you don t think of yourself as a murderer? no, i don t. i was saving my own life. he came down that night to me or him. she said it was a case of survival. but ask detective wilson and he calls it something else. i believe this is an evil woman who planned this from the beginning. maybe she did fear for her life. there are people who say they saw her with bruises. sure. it s a possibility. possibility there was a bruise. or it could have been something she set up to look like that to go along with her story. because it was closer to the time she was going to kill him. even if it was an act of self ....
More and more skeptical of ellen snyder s stoimpl and so was mike s sister teri. without any real proof that ellen had something to do with mike s disappearance, there was nothing that could be done about those aching suspicions. there was nothing that could tangibly prove murder enough to get an arrest warrant for it until they had a body. and another four years passed. mike s sister teri became more and more dissatisfied with the progress detective wilson is making. i think at first he was very zealous. he felt that, you are right, a lot of this isn t adding up and i believe at first they worked very hard to find my brother. as the years went by, the unknown had become unbearable for the snyder family. they wanted answers from the police. i think he got very upset with me that i was being pushy. our phone conversations got less and less. ....