enforcement. i think she was more comfortable talking to filipino investigators than to american investigators. and she started changing her story. in a remarkable turnaround, lucy now admitted taking part in julie s murder. she described how joe came to her, explained to her that he wanted his wife dead, that he couldn t live with his wife anymore and wanted her out of the way. lucy said she hired her two uncles to carry out the murder. and they, in turn, hired a third man to help them. and so, the story she told subsequently was devastating. but see, that s not the end of everything. but hold it. when was she lying? was she lying the first time or the second time? when confronted with lucy s confession, joe snodgrass denied
and was practically a member of the family. but her demeanor raised eyebrows. she also wanted to be my mom. to some degree, that s what i felt all of the time. she would she would say, i m your mom. i would say, you re not my mom. i m going to be your mom. no, i ve got a mom. you re not going to be my mom and stuff like that. during questioning, lucy said she knew nothing about the murder and she denied rumors that she was having an affair with julie s husband. but julie s son knew this was a lie. the only reason why i knew something was going on is because i opened the door to the bedroom one day and saw dad doing something he shouldn t have been doing, you know. she passes a polygraph, you know. so, boy, the case is in the toilet, right? well military investigators changed tactics. they interviewed lucy once again, this time using local law
there. just huge. you see spiders as big as your head. weird stuff. stuff that you have never seen before. josh snodgrass grew up if the philippines. his father joe was a u.s. military officer at clark air force base. his mother, julie, was from mississippi and had trouble adjusting to life overseas. the nicest woman you could have ever met. there wasn t a bad bone in her body. julie, as warm as she was to the american community, she wasn t crazy about the philippines. there were some people, probably not surprising, that didn t like the philippines. on february 25, 1991, joe snodgrass called police to report his wife missing. he said they had an argument. he said i thought she was going to go cool off. this sort of thing has happened before where she storms out. military records show julie
was also a possible motive. unemployment in the philippine community was 60%. if any filipino had a job, they were often supporting 10 to 15 people who didn t have a job. but investigators were more intrigued by the rumors of problems in the couple s marriage. his wife and he had been separated. they had gotten back together, they divorced. they remarried. there was a lot of turmoil there. as word of julie s murder spread, local informants told investigators that they might want to question the family s filipino housekeeper. her first name was lucy. very attractive. very young. much younger than joe. i would say early 20s? possibly? my impression is that it was common knowledge that there was a very close, maybe relationship beyond the housekeeping relationship. lucy had been the snodgrass s housekeeper for more than a year
left the military base around 10:30 p.m. this time, she never came back. at 4:00 a.m. the next morning, a cab driver found julie seated in her truck on a deserted road two miles from the base. she had been stabbed repeatedly. [ screaming ] julie was still strapped in her seat belt and her driver s side door was ajar. at that point, it told us maybe she had tried to get out and couldn t. there was a great deal of blood inside the car, except on the passenger seat. that led us to believe that somebody was in the vehicle with her and stabbing her and likely got a lot of blood all over him or her. a search of foreign hairs and fibers did reveal a potential clue.