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West side of town. that is until detective mark wilson and three of his colleagues from the cold case team showed up. >> you wouldn't happen to have someplace we could sit down and talk would you, just have a chat with you. >> reporter: they were there to speak with 25-year-old mechanic michael sheffield, ellen snyder's son. mike snyder's stepson. >> he didn't seem to be surprised the police showed up in his work and he said sure. we have a break room we can go talk in. so he went to his break room and we conducted an interview with him there.

School -- >> we didn't talk about it. >> reporter: later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body into the garage. but there was a problem. >> trying to get him situated to where i could get him -- a board under him to move him to the garage. >> reporter: and you couldn't do it alone? >> i couldn't do it alone. >> reporter: so you asked your son. >> so i asked him, yep. >> reporter: you asked michael to help you move the body? >> yes. he didn't want to. i asked him, please. he said okay. >> reporter: 17-year-old michael reluctantly agreed. >> were you aware you were...

>> yes. >> reporter: so you're not some little shrinking violet who's home cowering under her husband's direction. >> but when it came to being home and opening that door, i was that shrinking violet. that you how things were. he ran the show. it was two different ellens, two dint lives. >> reporter: detective wilson interviewed ellen's old boss, a man named james cassell. he told the detective he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing her sunglasses. i said why are you wearing sunglasses? so she finally took her sunglasses off and she had a nice, big o...

And that's what the cycle of abuse is all about. there's an isolation, there's a dependency, there's a demeaning factor and those things all go together until the abuser has turned the abused into someone who thinks that he or she -- because it happens both ways -- is a worthless person. >> reporter: would ellen snyder spend the rest of her life behind bars, or had she committed the perfect murder? is it possible she's going to walk? >> i mean, that's certainly possible in this case. >> reporter: she can walk away from this? >> she might have committed first degree murder and gotten away with ...

She was six when her father disappeared. >> you told her you'd been lying to her? >> i did. >> what did she say? >> she was most concerned about losing her mom. she's been to see me every week. she's such a remarkable young woman. she loves me. >> but ellen says the greatest regret of her life was putting her son, michael, in the middle of a cover up. you said you always looked out for him and he always looked out for you? >> i didn't do such a good job. >> you didn't. >> he's such a remarkable man. >> i know you wish you'd shielded him from that. >> yep. >> i get the feeling you have way more...