I Am Not One To Endorse Murder, Darlings!!!!! But I Think This Is One Time When Dexter Might Have Helped!!!!!!!!!

                                    You all know Dexter, girls, America's most lovable and quasi-moral serial killer, who has his own TV show.  Despite serial killers being an almost avocation for me, I have to confess I have never watched a single episode. Not from disdain; I just never got around to it.

                                      But after watching the story of this week's Bitch Of The Week last night, I got to thinking, if there were a real Dexter out there, I might pick up the phone, and call.  Hell, maybe someone in the facility where she is incarcerated just might do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                         The winner of this week's Raving Queen Bitch Of The Week Award is Ellen Snyder!

                                          In the scheme of things, Ellen was your garden variety bitch-- a harridan who essentially murdered her husband to get rid of him, because he was becoming too much of an inconvenience, and to get at his money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   But she was no Phyllis Dietrichson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            It was the underlying aspects of Ellen's story that made her so despicable, and hence eligible here for this prize.  Her husband, Mike Snyder, (and isn't he just kinda cute, darlings????) was gunned down by his wife in early January 2002.  Ellen immediately began spilling so many yarns, she should have taken up creative writing as a career.  First she said Mike had left; that he had walked out on his family. Then she said he ran off to Phoenix to have a gay relationship with a man no one ever heard of named David Simmons.  Next she said she heard from Mike, that he had called her, was fine, but was not coming back.  It just gets better.  In 2004 and 2005 Mike was found to have filed income tax returns.  There were even rumors something had happened to Mike; that he was buried somewhere in the back yard of where the Snyders had been living in 2002.

                                            Ellen also maintained Mike was an abuser.  I have no doubt every marriage has its ups and downs, and she and Mike no doubt had theirs. But, hey, Ellen had been married before, so her track record was not exactly perfect.  And from this marriage, she had a son, Michael Sheffield, who was 17, at the time Mike allegedly disappeared.

                                                This Ellen was some piece of work. She came to work with sunglasses hiding bruises, which she said Mike had given--and there were some who said she had planted them there, herself. Based on what happened, I am inclined to agree.

                                                   Son Michael had a good friend, Patrick, whom he told everything to. Patrick was working for Ellen for a time; she was a service manager at a mechanics company. Eventually, she was forced to fire him, for lack of productivity--the higher ups told her to--and that is when Patrick took matters into his own hands, going to the police, telling them Mike Snyder had been murdered eight years before--it was now 2010--by his wife, and son Michael had helped Ellen dispose of him. And how did he know this???? Because the somewhat guilt ridden Michael would tell him this--all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                      During the marriage, Mike also developed a debilitating case of Multiple Sclerosis. He was on disability, and Ellen was forced to take care of him, which was none too thrilling for her. She insists on the night of the murder, Mike woke her up yelling, she felt threatened, she went for a gun (whom she had borrowed from a coworker) and shot Mike.  He ran, she kept shooting,, till he went down. Eight years later, reinvestigating things, a cold case detective found the story to be fabricated; Mike had actually been gunned down, sleeping in his bed.  How physically active can one afflicted with MS be, girls??????  Just ask Annette Funicello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                         Does any of this sound familiar??? It reminds me of that no good Charlotte Bayes, played by Isabella Hoffman, in the 2003 "Cold Case" episode. "Churchgoing People."  I have to wonder if the writers of that segment got some ideas from Ellen, here.  Ellen was not an outright abuser, like Charlotte, but she was cunning, manipulative, and this whole thing was premeditated. And, like Charlotte with son Ryan, she got son Michael, then 17 to participate in the burying of his stepfather, then cover this up, for eight years. Her words to him, that day, were--"I shot Mike. Now go to school!"

                                                           Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Well, thanks to Patrick, Ellen was found out, Michael cracked being interrogated, (for his cooperation, he was not charged) and while the 11 year sentence is hardly the justice she deserves, at least she was found culpable, charged, and locked up. Where, hopefully, she will stay longer; maybe the Snyders will work against behalf of her parole.

                                                              But that remains to be seen. Meantime, we have Ellen  Snyder, Bitch Of The Week, one of the most cold and calculating (not to mention devious, having a history of embezzlement at a previous company, and being charged with tax fraud in filing "Mike's" returns!!!!!!!)  I hope she rots in jail, till all her hair falls out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                  These people never seem to learn!!!!!!!!! Divorce is SO much easier, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!