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marriage to work, i did not give up. >> soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. >> he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. >> was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. >> detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long -- >> hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. >> disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i'm lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanis...

executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney >> i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. >> soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. >> he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. >> was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. >> detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long -- >> hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. >> disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can't imagine what would be like to keep tha...

He no longer loved. so, the investigation was limited to that of a missing person. winter 2002 turned to spring no one heard from mike snider. his expensive mechanics tools laid unused at work. ellen, now a single mom, filed for divorce. she was awarded the house, the money and their joint account, and sole custody of their daughter elizabeth. >> when your daughter, mike's daughter, would say to you were study what would you say? >> i didn't know. that he left because he was mad at mommy. >> here after mike left her, allen says she can longer afford that hope they brought together. now that sh...

Only mike wasn't ready. he wanted to stay at work. the day ellen was giving birth. >> so i call those boss and i said, well, i'm in the hospital having a baby. >> and i said yeah. >> do you think you can send him? >> once again, maybe not the most sensitive husband. but mike loved that baby girl. they named her elizabeth. >> she was the joy of my brother's life. he just thought the world of that child. >> they would come back the dealership and mike would give her balloons, candy, soda. just, you know, give us time to her. everything else stopped. >> behind closed doors, mike and allen's marri...

Allen was becoming increasingly suspicious of exactly what mike was doing on those long trips away from his family, and from her. >> i felt hurt, betrayed, that had gone along all this time as the good wife for his m.s.. >> then, one night, mike was in the shower and his cell phone was sitting there on the table next to allen. curiosity, she says, got the better of her. she picked up his phone and opened it. >> solutions of the messages. >> i listen to the messages. >> >> what a shock that was. one message in particular from a man she never heard mike mention. someone named, dave symonds. a ma...