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>> we continue to follow breaking news right now. >> if you lived in albuquerque, you would have had to wear ear plugs not to hear about it. >> we just spoke to the police chief and he told us that the police is here looking for the remains of michael snyder. >> mechanic jim hertata, a longtime friend of ellen's, was at work when the news broke. >> i couldn't believe it. >> so you really believed that he had left her and he was in phoenix. >> yeah. >> police began cutting through the concrete of what was now a six-car garage. but the job of finding mike snyder's remains proved difficult. the g...

Anymore. >> he said, well, as far as i know he ran off with a guy and left my mother and sister and i behind and denied that he knew anything. >> so he's still telling the story he's been telling for six, seven years. >> yes. >> we have information, all right? that you assisted your mom in burying your stepfather in this backyard. >> no. >> no? >> do you think we are here by chance? do you think we're making this up? >> i don't know where you got your information, but i would never -- no. that's a terrible crime. >> repeatedly the detective tells michael that it's time for him to confess. >> i...

>> he was calling 911. i told him, just hang up, michael. >> and he hung up. >> and he hung up. and i sat down on the step waiting for the police to come. >> but the police never did show. >> i covered him up. i told michael to get ready for school. i told him, i shot mike, you need to just go to school. >> how was michael doing at this point? >> i thought he was doing okay. >> but evidently michael was not okay. he skipped school that day and he told his friend patrick about the horror he had gone through. did you talk to him about this? or from the first minute that this happened did this so...

So we leave. 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. >> okay. >> but now it was, you know -- it was about that. >> i had the feeling that he was glad to finally get it off his chest. he broke down somewhat, and i can only imagine what it would be like keeping that type of a secret. >> the detective showed michael photographs of the snyders' property as it it looked in 2002. and had michael circle where he believed his stepfather's body was buried. >> did michael believe that...

>> yes. >> reporter: so you are not some shrinking violet at home cowering under her husband's direction. >> but when it came to being home and opening the door, i was a shrinking violet, that is how things were. he ran the show. it was two different ellens and two different lives. >> reporter: detective wilson interviewed el llen's old boss, man named james kasell and he said that he remembered an incident when ellen came to work with bruises. >> she was wearing the sunglasses, and i said, why are you wearing the sunglasses, and she off the sunglasses and she had a nice shiner. i asked her wh...