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He followed is? >> yes. >> reporter: and a marriage that was neither loving or happy. >> right. >> reporter: and eight years of outside lie to the world in the big home that she and her husband mike had worked so hard to build. but el ellen would not leave and determined to make her marriage work. >> i was not going to be a failure at another marriage. >> reporter: mike hung on as well, but his sister terri said that mike was thinking of ending it. >> i believe that he was in the process of leav...

So she sold the house and she and her kids, michael and elizabeth, moved to a much smaller one. it was fall 2003 when ellen received a follow-up phone call from the albuquerque police department. the investigator wanted to know if she had spoken with mike. and you say what? >> i say that i dont consider him missing. that he is right where he wants to be. that he left me with his gay boyfriend and i have not heard from him since. >> reporter: police seemed to find it understandable that perhaps e...

Return, that hope evaporated. >> that is the last straw that we were all on board that he would have shown up for his own fathers funeral. >> reporter: but ellen and her children did show up. they had read the death announcement in the newspaper and they came to pay their respects. >> we were not expecting them and it was strange and caught us off guard, and once again, with rein a state of mourning, and we were not going to be creating any issues and we were not going to have them escorted out....

Ellens was running on six cylind cylinders. >> six weeks after we were dating, he bought me diamond yankees. it was very fast. >> reporter: so fast that after six months of dating ellen and her 8-month-old son michael moved in with him. >> did he seem happy? >> he did. >> reporter: mike had no ochildren of his own and now he was filling a void in mikes life. el llens sister terri. >> they would share interests and tink mer the garage together. >> reporter: but it was not long until she noticed t...

She was sitting in her car next to my car. she says, you need to get in the car. >> she told ellen that michael had called. the police had shown up at his work and they knew the secret. >> so i called my mom and i said, i need to come over. and she was, like, are you okay? ed and i said no. and, with that, ellens mother phoned an old acquaintance of hers, a defense attorney named penny adrian. >> her mom calls me p up, said, i think we have a problem. there was apparently something very wrong. >...

>> the detective showed michael photographs of the snyders property as it it looked in 2002. and had michael circle where he believed his stepfathers body was buried. >> did michael believe that he was on the hook legally for his part in this? >> i think he probably knew that he was. he knew that he was an accomplice in the case. >> a few miles away, michaels mom ellen snyder was ending her work day. >> had whi came out from work, his girlfriend came by. she was sitting in her car next to my car...

Glad to finally get it off his chest. he broke down somewhat. i can only imagine what it would be like keeping that type of a secret. >> the detectives showed michael photographs of the snyders property as it looked in 2002 and had michael circle where he believed his stepfathers body was buried. >> did michael believe that he was on the hook legally for his part in this? >> i think he probably knew that he was. he knew that he was an accomplice in the case. >> a few miles away, michaels mom, el...