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>> i dont want to get caught. i dont want to go to jail. what am i doing? >> and michael told detectives about the breakdown he had a at mr. snyders funeral. the one that the snyder family thought was so peculiar. >> i couldnt handle it. i had a breakdown. the family was staring at me and shes outside talking to me. she said is this what happened? and i i dont remember remember saying anything back. but now it was about that. >> i had the feeling that he was glad to finally get it off of his che...

Old and what you woke up to one night are you pretty sure that is what you want your statement to be to the district attorney. were not going to find his body out there. michael, its time to come clean. its over. >> i am. -- >> he left us. he left my sister and i. you know what its like trying to raise her. i was 17 she had no father figure anymore. >> he said as far as i know he ran off with a guy and left my mother and sister and i behind. denied that he knew anything. >> so hes still telling ...

Left. >> ellen didnt know that patrick knew the secret. >> he went to the police. >> he between the police. >> patrick was sitting in a starbucks letting him in on an eight-year-old secret. the >> thfrs revenge? >> yes. >> patrick told the detective he knew that mike schneider had been kill and his body was buried in yard of the schneiders former home. how did patrick know this? his best friend michael told him and on more than one occasion. >> do you believe him? >> yes. >> so this is one more ...

And he called 911. >> my mother -- >> he must have hung up just in time because theres no record of a 911 call from the snyder home that day. ? a few days later in a second interview, michael told police this. >> mom tells me what happened. >> what did she tell you. >> she told me she shot him in defense. she was scared. >> okay. >> told me she shouldnt have done it, sorry, but could you help me with this. i was scared at the time and didnt know what to do. >> so, he says, he reluctantly helped ...

>> mike was supporting this guy. >> i never found enough money that he was supporting him but he was definitely helping him out. police tell us ellens information didnt lead anywhere. the detective didnt locate mike in the caribbean and when he tried to contact dave simmons from phoenix he never got a response. but that same albuquerque journal article, the one that so infuriated ellen also got ellens former neighbors talking about something they had seen years before. >> theyd seen michael and ...

>> after three or four years of mike being gone, it didnt come up too much anymore. >> we knew he was sick. we didnt really know if he was still in a hospital somewhere or if he had just passed away from his illness. >> his tools were no longer lying there unussed. ellens son michael was using them. he had followed in mikes shoes and had become a mechanic, as well. on those rare occasions when ellen would come by the shop where mike had once worked, his old colleague dave would ask -- >> have yo...

>> what happened? >> he stepped forward and i start shooting. >> using creative detective work, wilson had an idea. he remembered something that michael, ellens son had mentioned in his interview with police. something about a stereo speaker. >> apparently not all of the bullets hit him. another went through a speaker,

He knew he was an accomplice in the case. >> a few miles away, michaels mom, ellen snyder was ending her work day. >> when i came out from work, his girlfriend came by. she was sitting in her car next to my car. she said you need to get in the car. >> she told ellen that michael >> did michael believe he was on the hook for his part in this? >> i think he probably knew that he was. he knew he was an accomplice in the case. >> a few miles away, michaels mom, ellen snyder was ending her work day. ...

Up in the middle of the night to yell at you now. just you and the kids now. >> just me and the kids. >> she said she tried to reach him and so did his family. he wasnt returning their calls either many your mother called and said i havent heard from michael in a couple of weeks and you are thinking his ms is getting -- >> we were concerned. >> she said she knew that mike was planning to leave ellen soon but he wasnt supposed to leave everyone. >> he would have never done that to his mother. he ...

Story hes been telling six, seven years. >> we have information, all right, that you assisted your mom in burying your step father in the backyard. >> no? you think were here by chance? you think we are making this up. >> i dont know where you got your information but i would never no, no terrible crime. >> repeatedly the detective tells michael its time for him to confess. >> i need you to be honest with us. i need you to right here on this picture show us where you buried the body. >> i didnt ...