Roberta Snider, 70, vanished in early January 2018 after a reported road trip to Graceland with her husband of more than 50 years, Phillip Snider. Phillip first told family Roberta suffered a medical emergency and died in their vehicle in Memphis, and that an ambulance took her from a hotel parking lot. Her brother, unable to arrange a burial or get details, alerted police and investigators found key elements of Phillip’s account didn’t check out.

Tennessee authorities found no death record or Jane Doe matching Roberta. Hotel surveillance in Sparta, Kentucky, captured Phillip checking in alone. His story shifted: he later claimed he had placed her body in his truck and dumped it in the Tennessee River, but searches turned up nothing. A cadaver dog scented human remains on a plastic tub in the couple’s basement, and blood on a loveseat matched Roberta’s DNA.

Phillip was arrested in April 2018 and, after an undercover officer obtained a confession, admitted striking Roberta with a hammer on January 3. He pleaded guilty in August 2018 and agreed to lead investigators to her remains, after which he said he had disposed of the body in a Bullitt County, Kentucky, dumpster. Investigators believe her remains may be in a Hardin County, Kentucky, landfill; no search there is reported. Did anyone in Hartville or along that travel route notice the couple or a blue pickup around January 2–4, 2018?