Graceland killer Philip Snider (left) admitted to heartlessly bashing his cancer-stricken wife with a hammer and ditching her bludgeoned body — after first claiming she died of natural causes during a trip to Elvis Presley‘s historic Memphis mansion! And now the septuagenarian sicko will likely die behind bars after bragging about his kill to a female undercover officer — leading prosecutors to asked a judge to lock him up for at least 20 years! Hartville, Ohio resident Snider told family members in January that 70-year-old Roberta (right) passed away in Memphis and was taken away by EMTs — but there was no record of her body being recovered.Read on for details of Snider’s shocking criminal acts, and click here for more true-crime news….
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When quizzed by cops, his story changed two more times — first saying she was cremated and then saying he dumped her in the Tennessee River along I-40 so he could “put her with nature.” After being questioned, Snider tried to take his own life by downing prescription pills!
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But after his release from the hospital, authorities set up a honeytrap — and Snider took the bait! The female undercover officer cozied up to the maniac and told him she wished her ailing mother would die — and even said she thought about killing her!
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Shortly afterward, Snider proposed marriage, but the crafty cop countered by asking him to come clean about the death of his wife of 53 years. And that’s when police claim he made a damning confession.
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According to the officer, Snider told her that he and his spouse fought the night of Jan. 2, and the next morning he placed a cloth over slumbering Roberta’s face and then “struck her twice in the head with a two-pound stakehammer, killing her.”
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Authorities claim he then tied a plastic grocery bag over Roberta’s head, rolled her onto a plastic tarp and stuffed her in a container with wheels — before ditching her battered corpse and the murder weapon somewhere between Hartville and Memphis.
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“This is one of the most ghastly crimes I have ever seen,” said Judge Frank Forchione after Snider entered his guilty plea. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for people like you.”
When quizzed by cops, his story changed two more times — first saying she was cremated and then saying he dumped her in the Tennessee River along I-40 so he could “put her with nature.” After being questioned, Snider tried to take his own life by downing prescription pills!
But after his release from the hospital, authorities set up a honeytrap — and Snider took the bait! The female undercover officer cozied up to the maniac and told him she wished her ailing mother would die — and even said she thought about killing her!
Shortly afterward, Snider proposed marriage, but the crafty cop countered by asking him to come clean about the death of his wife of 53 years. And that’s when police claim he made a damning confession.
According to the officer, Snider told her that he and his spouse fought the night of Jan. 2, and the next morning he placed a cloth over slumbering Roberta’s face and then “struck her twice in the head with a two-pound stakehammer, killing her.”
Authorities claim he then tied a plastic grocery bag over Roberta’s head, rolled her onto a plastic tarp and stuffed her in a container with wheels — before ditching her battered corpse and the murder weapon somewhere between Hartville and Memphis.
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“This is one of the most ghastly crimes I have ever seen,” said Judge Frank Forchione after Snider entered his guilty plea. “The hottest places in hell are reserved for people like you.”
