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>> reporter: the only proof that they had a relationship is the voice mails that don't exist anymore. >> well, people who knew mike, they would know that he would not send anybody money, ever, unless there was some sort of relationship there. >> reporter: so mike was supporting this guy? >> i never found enough money that he was supporting him, but he was definitely helping him out. >> reporter: police say that her information didn't lead anywhere, and the detective did not locate him in the caribbean and when he tried to kcontact a dave simmons in phoenix, he never had a contact. and that oth...

>> no. >> a few days later, in a second interview, michael told police this -- >> mom tells me what had happened. >> what did she tell you? >> she told me she'd shot him in defense. she was scared. >> okay. >> told me she shouldn't have done it. i'm sorry, but could you help me with this? and i was scared at the time. i didn't know what to do. >> and so, he says, he reluctantly p 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? >> god, i don't wa...

And it does not lay the blame at u your feet? >> yes, it does. >> reporter: what did she tell you? >> that she and michael had a heated discussion and the next morning when she woke up he was gone, and he had not taken a vehicle. >> reporter: ellen told the detective that she was pretty sure that he had moved to phoenix the home of his lover dave simmons, but most recently, she believed he had moved on the the caribbean. >> she said he is probably on an island somewhere. >> we had looked at land in st. croix and as far as i knew he had gone the st. croix. >> reporter: and that is where he was ...

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Yard of their home, and how did he know this? that his best friend michael had told him and on more than one occasi occasion. >> he said that he had told him about it right after it, and if they were years later drinking or whatever, he would break down and tell him the story. >> reporter: do you believe it? >> yes. >> reporter: so this is one more person telling you to look in backyard. but had you looked there >> yes, it seemed like credible information and patrick seemed to corob rate it. >> reporter: and so he drove with a hidden microphone to michael's home and said that they needed to sp...