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 only 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. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
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.
ellen the s story. and so was mike s sister terry. without any real proof that she had something to do with ike s disappearance, there was nothing that could be done about those suspicions. there was nothing that could tangibly prove murder enough to get in arrest warrant so we had a body. so, another four years had passed. mike s sister terry became more and more dissatisfied with the progress detective wilson was making. i think, at first, he was very zealous. he felt that you re right, a lot of this is not adding up and i believe at first they worked very hard to unpack them. but 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 conversation got less
until they had a body. and so another four years passed. mike s sister teri became more and more dissatisfied with the progress detective wilson was 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. i would call and leave a message and my messages weren t being returned. they kind of, i think, put the case on the back burner, i believe. detective wilson did continue to look for mike snyder but wilson had to also focus on the 20 other cold cases that needed his attention.
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 defense that caused ellen snyder to shoot her husband, why hasn t she called police? usually when abused women kill their abusers, they call the police and they are sitting there with the gun when the police drive up. okay. they don t try to evade responsibility. they admit what they did and they say, i didn t have any choice. pretty much as you are saying to me now. but they don t bury the body. and tell a series of pretty good lies over a long period of time. that s pretty unusual. okay. which suggests, to some people, that there s more to the story than you are telling. they didn t live through what we lived through. they weren t there that night. with ellen snyder now sitting in jail, detective wilson was trying to determine if the