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>> so, he says, he reluctantly helped his mother wrap mike snyder's dead body in a waterproof tarp, place it in a hole in the backyard and put some construction waste on top of it. >> what's going through your mind at this time? >> i don't want to get caught. i don't want to go to jail. what am i doing? >> and michael told detectives about the breakdown he had a at mr. snyder's funeral. the one that the snyder family thought was so peculiar. >> i couldn't handle it. i had a breakdown. the family was staring at me and she's outside talking to me. she said is this what happened? and i i don't re...

Shooting happened the way that ellen now said it did because, after all, how believable was ellen? >> we tried to gather information six, seven years later, we don't have the actual crime scene. at that time, they would have seen blood streams from where he first got shot to where the body was laying, to where the bullet projectiles had stopped. >> ellen claimed that mike woke her up yelling and they fought in the family room where mike slept. >> i'm in the middle of the family room and he's about as as far as you and i facing me. >> what happened? >> he stepped forward and i start shooting. >...

>> absolutely. the shooting happened for a reason. the shooting happened. it was too much to give michael. >> no one but ellen snyder will ever know exactly what happened inside of the walls of that dream home in the early morning hour s of january, 2002. that will forever remain a mystery. but one thing is clear, ellen snyder is something of an expert of how to live a life of secrets and lies. one thing we know about you, for sure, is that you are pretty good at telling a lie. >> okay. >> and the truth is, if you hadn't fired the wrong person i think you would still be telling that lie today....

>> i thought he was doing okay. >> 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 sort of become the thing you are not talking about. >> right. we never talked about it. >> once you said to him, i shot mike, go to school. >> we didn't talk about it. >> later with michael and elizabeth at school, ellen planned to move the body in to the garage, but there was a problem. >> trying to get him situated to where i could get him, a ...

>> michael cried so hysterically that his mother ellen had to escort the 20-year-old out of the room. >> were with he and your father close? >> not close, per se. i mean he was no closer to my father than he was my mother. it i was a very odd occurrence that we all took note of. >> there was something else that teri remembers about that day. something that enraged her. >> ellen at some point comes up to my sister and asks about my father's will. and wanted to know if there was anything in the will provision for his daughter, for mike's daughter. >> and she's asking about money. >> and she's as...