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>> i didn't know. that he had left because he was mad at mommy. >> a year after mike left her, ellen said she could no longer afford that home they built together. now that she only had her salary. so she sold the house and she and her kids, michael and elizabeth moved to a much smaller one. it was fall 2003 when ellen received a followup call from the albuquerque police department. the investigator wanted to know if she had spoken with mike. >> you said what? >> i say that i don't consider him missing. that he is right where he wants to be. that he left me with this gay boyfriend and that i h...

Already know the answers to. you knew this day was coming ever since you were 17 years old. how you answer the questions and your honesty here is really going to change your life from this moment on. okay. all right. detective wilson here has been investigating the disappearance of your step father. >> why don't you tell me right now that you know what happened to your step dad, michael snyder. michael snyder who helped to raise you. >> at first, michael tells the same story that ellen has told since the day michael disappeared. >> remember what i told you. that's what your mother told you.

Be like keeping that type of secret. >> the detective showed michael photographs of the snyder's property as it looked in 2002. and had michael circle where he believed his step father's body was buried. >> did michael believe he was on the hook for his part in this? >> i think he probably knew that he was. he knew he was an accomplice in the case. >> a few miles away, michael's mom, ellen snyder was ending her work day. >> when i came out from work, his girlfriend came by. she was sitting in her car next to my car. she said you need to get in the car. >> she told ellen that michael had called...

Her, belittle her and shout at her. your husband wasn't waking you up in the middle of the night to yell at you now. just you and the kids now. >> just me and the kids. >> she said she tried to reach him and so did his family. he wasn't returning their calls either many your mother called and said i haven't heard from michael in a couple of weeks and you are thinking his ms is getting -- >> we were concerned. >> she said she knew that mike was planning to leave ellen soon but he wasn't supposed to leave everyone. >> he would have never done that to his mother. he would have at least given her,...

>> he made the rules. >> he made the rule sfwls you followed them. >> eight years in a marriage that was neither equal or loving. >> and you were afraid to stand up to him? >> absolutely. >> eight years of living a lie to the outside world in that big home that she and her husband mike had worked so hard to build. but ellen wouldn't leave, determined to make her marriage work. >> i wasn't going to be a failure at another marriage in mike hung on as well but his sister teri says mike was thinking of ending it. >> i believe he was in the process of trying to leave her. he was moving belongings t...