The brother of Roberta L Snider, 70, called the Harville, Ohio, police department on January 9 to tell them of the strange details surrounding her death
An Ohio man who told authorities that his wife died on a trip to Elvis Presley’s Graceland and he turned her body over to EMS workers, now says he put her body in the Tennessee River after she died of natural causes.
The brother of Roberta L Snider, 70, called the Hartville, Ohio, police department on January 9 to tell them of the strange details surrounding her death.
Philip Snider, 72, told family that he took his wife to Graceland ‘one last time before she died,’ according to Fox 8 Cleveland.
According to Roberta’s husband, the woman died in Memphis, Tennessee, causing Philip to pull over and ask an EMT for help.
Philip asserted that his wife was taken to an unknown location after paramedics confirmed that she was dead.
But after speaking with Philip and EMS companies, hospitals and medical examiner offices in the Memphis area, police determined that no women matched Roberta’s description.
According to Roberta’s husband, the woman died in Memphis, Tennessee, while on a trip to Graceland causing Philip to pull over and ask an EMT for help. But no record of Roberta was found in the Memphis area
Police would later piece together that Philip left Ohio for Tennessee on January 4 and checked into a hotel near Graceland the next day.
However, surveillance video doesn’t have record of Roberta actually being at the hotel.
When confronted with the information, Philip shared that his wife died of natural causes while on the journey.
Philip would then share that his wife died of natural causes while on the journey. He claimed to have ‘put her with nature,’ throwing her off a bridge on Interstate 90 in the Tennessee River on January 6
He claimed to have ‘put her with nature,’ throwing her off a bridge on Interstate 90 in the Tennessee River on January 6.
And while the Benton County Sheriff’s Office has been looking in the area for her body, Roberta has not been found.
Phone records, credit card data and GPS information is now being used by inestigators to hopefully get further detail as to what happened.
The FBI was also asked to conduct a polygraph on Philip.