Inside Philip Snider's Relationship With Missy

When Joan Bauer took on the role of Missy to befriend Philip Snider, she deliberately dressed down. "I was very careful not to be flirty with him," Bauer said on the true-crime documentary (via Fox News). "I wore sweatshirts. I did not wear makeup."

It took time for Snider to trust Missy, and as covered by The Columbus Dispatch, on several occasions he asked if Bauer was a cop. As Missy, the officer created a backstory about an ailing mother she detested and wished would die. Snider offered advice on how Missy could kill her mother. "And I wasn't prepared when I learned he was willing to help 'Missy' commit a crime," Bauer said in "When Philip Met Missy." At one point, Snider became smitten with Missy and even proposed a "marriage of convenience" that would not involve anything "frisky" and would help Missy earn Snider's social security checks after he died (via The Columbus Dispatch).

Over the course of a month, Bauer regularly met with Snider for coffee at a Burger King while she secretly recorded their conversations. "I feel like I have known you for many years," Snider was heard saying on one of the tapes, as per The Columbus Dispatch. During that same conversation, Snider admitted to killing his wife Roberta (pictured above), but he showed no regret. "I made it clear as 'Missy' that things didn't bother me. But he never showed any remorse," Bauer said on the documentary.

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