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Expired on anything less than first degree murder. there was the chance ellen snyder could be found not guilty. mike's family was willing to risk that. >> we felt that strongly that it was premeditated. you know, that was a gamble we were willing to take. >> but when it comes to murder, the prosecutor isn't willing to gamble. >> maybe she gets committed of first degree murder. but with an all or nothing where you're trying to convince beyond a reasonable doubt 12 jurors -- >> you didn't want to roll the dice? >> that's a huge risk to roll the dice and not have someone held accountable at all f...

Funeral, the one the snyder family thought so peculiar. >> i couldn't happenedle it. i just had a breakdown then. so we leave. the family's staring at me and she's outside talking to me. and she says, is this my fault? is this about what happened? and i don't remember saying anything back. but now it was. it was about that. >> i had a feeling that he was glad to finally get his off his chest. he broke down somewhat. i can only imagine what it would be like keeping that type of secret. >> reporter: the detective showed michael photographs of the snyders' property at it looked in 2002 and had mi...

Slab of concrete. >> reporter: it was now time for detective wilson to play a visit to ellen's son, mike snyder's son and stepson. an 8-year-old mystery. >> wouldn't happen to have someplace to sit down and talk, would you? coming up, the interrogation begins. >> itmichael, it's time to come clean. >> can they get to the truth after all of these years? >> i can't imagine what it's like keeping that type of a secret. etm still going for my bt even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm up ...

>> reporter: how long did it take him to come off that story? >> after we told him we had information that he knew where the body was and went a little further and told him that we heard him talking about it, he came forward after we showed him that we had evidence. >> tell us what happened. exactly where is the body? >> reporter: the detectives had broken him and the story came spilling out after eight years of lies. it was early morning, january 2002, michael said, when he woke to the sound of gunshots. and he called 911. he must have hung up just in time because there's no record of a 911 c...

They would file a story on the cold case. maybe the attention would shake loose some leaves. journalist jack proctor. >> police were willing to say publicly that they believed this may have been a homicide. >> it's no secret that in any homicide investigation, the spouse is always the first to be questioned. but before the detective had a chance to reach out to ellen, she was calling him. complaining about that article. >> she said, where did you get this information? she was upset that it portrayed that he was just an innocent man, father that had disappeared. >> the article didn't implicate ...