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>> 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 bury a body. >> yeah, you did. >> how long did it take him to come off that story? >> after we told him that we had information that he knew where t...

Nlts there was some sort of relationship there. >> mike was supporting this guy. >> i never found enough money that he was supporting him but he was definitely helping him out. mr. 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 th...

>> 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...

>> early january 2010, albuquerque police detective mark wilson was sitting in his office when a most unexpected call came in. the caller, a confidential source who said he had information on mike snyder. >> who was the confidential source? >> somebody that was a friend with michael sheffield. >> ellens son. >> ellens son. >> the mans name was patrick a 26-year-old motorcycle technician. he and michael had gone to high school together and were close friends. >> he had been living with me in my h...

Death announcement in the newspaper and came to pay their respects. >> we werent expecting them. so it was a little strange, kind of caught us off guard but once again we are in a state of mourning. dedont want to create issues. we werent going to have them escorted out. >> after all, mikes deceased father was the grandfather to elizabeth and step grandfather to ellens son michael. >> we let them come up to the casket, have their bereavement time and all of a sudden we notic he left a young daug...

>> so, he says, he reluctantly helped his mother wrap mike snyders dead body in a waterproof tarp, place it in a hole in the backyard and put some construction waste on top of it. >> whats going through your mind at this time? >> 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 s...

Shooting happened the way that ellen now said it did because, after all, how believable was ellen? >> we tried to gather information six, seven years later, we dont have the actual crime scene. at that time, they would have seen blood streams from where he first got shot to where the body was laying, to where the bullet projectiles had stopped. >> ellen claimed that mike woke her up yelling and they fought in the family room where mike slept. >> im in the middle of the family room and hes about ...

>> absolutely. the shooting happened for a reason. the shooting happened. it was too much to give michael. >> no one but ellen snyder will ever know exactly what happened inside of the walls of that dream home in the early morning hour s of january, 2002. that will forever remain a mystery. but one thing is clear, ellen snyder is something of an expert of how to live a life of secrets and lies. one thing we know about you, for sure, is that you are pretty good at telling a lie. >> okay. >> and t...

>> 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 didnt talk about it. >> later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in...

>> michael cried so hysterically that his mother ellen had to escort the 20-year-old out of the room. >> were with he and your father close? >> not close, per se. i mean he was no closer to my father than he was my mother. it i was a very odd occurrence that we all took note of. >> there was something else that teri remembers about that day. something that enraged her. >> ellen at some point comes up to my sister and asks about my fathers will. and wanted to know if there was anything in the wil...