John Snyder Jr. (courtesy Globe Gazette)
John Joseph Snyder Jr.
HOMICIDE: Suspect Acquitted at Trial
VICTIM: John J. Snyder Jr.
AGE: 20 months old
THE CRIME: First-degree Murder
WHEN: July 20, 1994
WHERE: Taken from 10 S. Adams Ave., Apt. 1, $500,000 bond set for suspect in Snyder boy’s murder,” Mason City Globe Gazette, July 16, 2013
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John Joseph Snyder, Jr (1992 – 1994) – Find A Grave Memorial
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Happy Heavenly 30th Birthday John Jr….You Have Touched So Many Lives & & Will Always Be Loved ..
Remembering You Today & Always
Forever In Our Hearts ❤🎈🍦🎂
Thinking Of The Snyder Family Today ❤🙏
God Bless
Thank you LuAnn — as his killer sits in a Wisconsin prison only to be released in July 2024 we can only imagine what madness grows. This person, IMO, is a classic example of a sociopath with no feelings or remorse whatsoever. The most dangerous of the dangerous. The DCI guys commented that, “he’s something” when I asked about the conversations with him. He did try to kill his girlfriend, but got the attempted murder charge dropped. I guess he had threatened to kill her whole family too. Yeah, he’s a real gem. Good luck Wisconsin.
You must understand that the father (John Snyder) did kill his own son I know that for a fact
I always had my suspicions that his father might have killed him but You need FACTS….& Evidence that might point to him…without these you have nothing..
Mind your own business about evidence the baby John Was a sweet soul whom was moved by myself to the Quad Cities to get away from his abusing father to his mother at a time when he was just in a infant seat ? I felt he and his mother were safer with me after I witnessed his daddy abusing his mother but not very much longer I figured out that his daddy came all the way to visit mommy and guess what yep she moved back but then left him again and there it is a 20 month old baby “TAKEN” from his owns fathers Apartment supposedly and murdered I did not think that someone could be so sick but he was then and I was at the trial I was subpoenaed unfortunately and I’ll never forget that fathers face. 20 years later in my opinion I know his “father” wasn’t on trial but he should have been
Why didn’t John Jr’s Mom take him with her? Why was he left with his father?…& I don’t need to mind my own business,I was just stating an opinion…& yes I agree with you that maybe they should have put his Dad on trial…because sounds like to me that he might be hiding the truth……
Lori Schorr, after deciphering you comment and failing to pull up your atached facebook page, I googled Lori Schorrv iowa. I guess what I found should let everyone draw their own conclusions about any testimony from your lips., https://www.scottcountyiowa.us/sheriff/temp-inmates.php?sysid=19376665581345
I can not believe in the Justice System and the rest of the individual’s that let that man get away with it they ain’t know Justice for victims.
People like Letitia Turner are why I despise lawyers.
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That poor baby. Ugh. So sad he suffered . I can’t imagine.
Jack Toomey, you are correct in that once police have arrested and charged a suspect with first-degree murder, they can officially clear/close the case. It’s then in the hands of prosecutors/defense attorneys, jury members, and (in bench trials) judges. Still, an acquittal means the suspect can’t be tried again due to Double Jeopardy. If a trial results in a guilty verdict, I don’t include those cases in the anniversary updates. And, I don’t always add these anniversary updates in some acquittals; it depends entirely on the case. I wanted to include John Jr.’s case as a reminder (perhaps warning) to the public that murder trials (as any attorney will tell you) are never about guilt or innocence; they are about winning. (Ask Alfredo Parrish, or O.J. Simpson’s attorneys, or any other criminal defense attorney.) I also wanted to include John Jr.’s anniversary because it exemplifies the “legal but unconscionable deceitfulness and depravity” taking place in courtrooms all over the U.S. every single day.
ICC, great work you do.
Curious, was a motive ever stated for why Michael would’ve done this? I read that they smoked marijuana together so Sr. and Michael knew each other, but still seems random that he would seek out the baby and murder him. Maybe I missed something. And has he been in trouble for any other serious crimes since?
In my opinion and I’ve been thinking about this case since it happened but I think the jury made a huge mistake when shutting Cisneros…I have a gut feeling and it’s been eating at me since his acquittal but to me all signs point to him..He made a comment that he didn’t know what happened to the little boy that drowned in the river..How would he have even known that because law enforcement hadn’t even released that information to the public.
There are many reasons also that he could have seeked out little John Jr & murdered him but I’m not going to reveal that right now..
He got off!!! That’s a shame!!!
The suspect can’t be arrested or tried again due to his Double Jeopardy protection. Why is it being featured as a Cold case?
That’s all generally true but since the case was closed by the arrest of the man who committed the murder why classify this a “cold case” and ask for tips, etc? Wouldn’t it be better to classify the case as “Iowa Historical Crime”?
The general public tends to believe “anything” a man in a suit says in a courtroom. Witnesses are asked to answer non-questions with only a Yes or No answer. (e.g. “Do you still beat your wife?” which only lead to false conclusions and questions like “So were you lying then or are you lying now?” Congress rewrites or enacts new laws every year, and in my personal opinion, potential jurors should be required to pass a very basic logic and reasoning test, along with a short exam proving they understand the true definition of “reasonable doubt.”
Thanks. That will be an afternoon of reading.
Jack Toomey, you are absolutely right. I’m so used to asking for tips at the end that I put it out there without thinking. In fact, rather than Historical Cases, I have a page on ICC for “Solved” crimes, and John Jr. was put on there right after the trial. https://iowacoldcases.org/solved/
Poor Little John, he was my favorite lil boy at Charlie Brown. His dad was a wonderful dad,
Iowa Cold Cases I had ran into John Sr. When he was here around the time of court for Michael, and him and I after all theses years stood with tears in our eyes over lil John!! The pain will never go away for his daddy and all that cared and loved him !
Carla Robinette, thank you for posting this. John Sr. was indeed a wonderful father, and had I been in his shoes, I’d have sued both criminal defense attorneys for slander. To accuse a loving father of murder just to get an acquittal for a client is unconscionable, but they’re paid to use every deceitful trick in the book. I’m not even sure why they make people swear on the Bible because the simple truth is, “Everybody lies.”
If you click on the pics it takes you to all court reports on the case. Not saying I believe this, but its possible.
If you read the case from KIMT reporters on the court proceedings it says that he left his Mom’s house after a fight. An hid in the woods from police by the river. He went to the bathroom, an wiped his hands on a piece of cloth laying in the tall grass. He had cut his hand at his Mom’s an that is how he got his dna on the pj’s
In a report by Kimt, it said he had a cut. Not saying I believe him, I’ve known him since he was a kid… I know how he lies. Just the report I read this morning
Cheri, just wanted to clarify a couple of things for readers. Cisneros only “urinated” in the tall grass, and if he’d grabbed John Jr.’s pajama bottoms to “wipe off his hands,” the blood droplets on the cloth would have been “smeared” as he wiped his hands from the alleged cut he received at his mother’s. The pj bottoms include nothing but blood droplets – nothing “smeared” at all. And, he hadn’t just gotten into a fight with his mother. She had KICKED HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE that night.
That BS our judicial system is so messed up
Yeah…His DNA is there so that proves that he was there…Sounds like the people running the courts are inexpierenced..Running them like a Circus Act…..Such a sad story….Little John Jr didnt deserve this……..hopefully the family will someday find some closure to all of this………
How did Cisneros DNA get there then? Everyone who dealt with this case should under investigation. This is Kangaroo court in the name of a little boy. Wtf
Dear Mr. Snyder – after reading this whole article and the only word I can come up with is unbelievable. How a panel of 12 jurors could come back with a not guilty verdict is just not comprehensible to me. The only thing that should mattered is the DNA found on your sons pajama bottoms. And to hear you say that some of the jurors were falling asleep during the trial just boggles the mind. Why did the judge not stop the trial and replace these jurors?? This man has gotten away with murder. My heart bleeds for you. I can only hope that there is a God and he will receive his final judgment. I pray you find peace and know that there are those of us who absolutely believe you had nothing to do with this.
If Cisneros visited the apartment earlier my Question is WHY? It would be very probable to have gotten blood on pjs at that time. Was it just blood or something else mixed in with it? That was never made clear in anything I have read.. Kind of hush hush about it, really. Exactly how good did they know one another?
What’s going on in mason city?
This jury must have been made up of 12 complete imbeciles. I can’t believe they disregarded the DNA evidence. I hope someday the person responsible for this little boys death receives the punishment they so richly deserve.
You people who are spewing your opinions and pointing fingers at the father need to remember one thing. This was a cold case that yielded an arrest ONLY when DNA evidence was entered into CODIS of a criminal going into the prison system. If he had never gone into the prison system, his DNA would have never been made available and there never would have even been a trial. Twenty years passed and it was DNA that caught the man responsible. DNA does NOT lie! Irregardless of what some attorney says in a courtroom to create reasonable doubt, DNA is complete and total truth!
my heart go’s out to you, r. I. p. lttle john
Mr. Snyder, please accept my deepest condolences. As a mother and grandmother I can’t even imagine what you have gone through all of these years. I am so sorry that you and your little boy did not receive any justice.
I really appreciate that…since the arrest I truly believed we would. Talk about a surprise ending. Obviously, for reasons of a higher authority it did not turn out how we expected. I feel it is a decision meant to have ramifications beyond this case.
Katrina & Sam:
Obviously, you have never had a child kidnapped from your home, and subsequently murdered. Sam, Jody’s response to your comment is spot on, and what pointed to me? I lived there, and called the police? Katrina, not sure if you were in the courtroom, but what the media reports is solely up to them. It is not always favorable for any party at any point. They are not the jury. What you unfortunately do not realize is that finding out who did this is all I was truly concerned about over the last 20 yrs., and if you are in law enforcement you would know where I was and what I was doing. What I did know is that John’s killer was out there and capable of hurting another person or child. Everything I learned about what happened to John occurred the day I heard the closing arguments. That is all I needed to hear. Whatever the defense was saying had nothing to do with a logical defense for this guy and nothing to do with the case whatsoever. Anyone can randomly throw out what ifs to create reasonable doubt, but Cisneros was in there on the Holy Grail of cold case evidence.
He had knowledge of my apartment, because a friend of mine referred me to a Mike Cisneros to buy weed. He had come over one time when I had just moved in to that place to have me try some weed for when I wanted to buy some. That’s it.
The witnesses (you mean the one who sent me a friend request on Facebook June 22, 2014 five days after I got back to town)?? — I had retained an attorney in May 1994 prior to John’s disappearance and paid a retainer in order obtain sole custody — FACT with proof. Who would ask a barfly to adopt their child when seeking sole custody? Who?? She was in the middle of a divorce when I met her, she moved into an apartment directly below me with two weeks of us meeting (she had been living with her husband in Clear Lake. — FACT I refused to let John play with her son any longer after John was pinched by him who was slightly older. — FACT Our last communication was when she came to my apartment at 6:30am on a Saturday morning after being out all night with none other than the person who in the past few days was found passed out behind a North End Mason City bar. I told her to get lost, and never come over again. She proceeded to smash two glasses on my door. That’s a pretty shitty thing to do knowing there is a little baby living in that apartment. — FACT I then decided to move to 10 S. Adams. Her original statement was that we knew each other (we did not ‘date’…we hooked up) about 3-4 weeks…consistent with what I said at that time and what I said 20 yrs later. All of sudden on the stand it became 3 months. FACT
Enough of B. Larsen’s fiasco…her testimony in one word…PERJURY.
I worked two jobs, and went to school, so for an ex-babysitter to claim I left John for three days on end is another, in any other word, laughable. I have too many family members and others who all loved John. If this were the case I would have caught Holy Hell from them, and where would ANYONE disappear for three days in Mason City? I worked as a bartender and would get off late. This person charged an additional fee for overnight which was convenient for her & me, as to not disrupt her home day car at 12am – 2am when I got off work. Enough about these people since the trial was not about John might have had something to do with it. Both these two now can live with the fact that they contributed to allowing a baby killer to go free out of spite.
My biggest question(s) will always be: How did he happen to end up in the location of the pajama bottoms in the middle of that night, relieve himself (pee), and conveniently was near the pj’s to wipe hands off? Now, the blood was not smeared…it was drops. Wiping causes smearing. Pee, is not blood. There was no urine found on the bottoms. Any man, Sam, can we consider yourself one of these??, when urinating (especially in the dark, in the middle of the night) does not go looking for something to wipe their hands off with… a simple brush of the pant leg does the trick. He fought giving DNA for something he “knew nothing about”…he knew nothing about “a baby drowning in a river”. When I heard that part of the recording you could tell he about swallowed his heart. I ran to the hospital at the beginning to give my samples for elimination purposes. If he had nothing to worry about what was the issue?
We could go on about this ad infinitum, but it will still not change the verdict. I have true faith this guy will end up hurting someone again in his life. My focus now is work to prevent juries from sleeping on the job (yes, a few were seen actually nodding off) and using any probability in the world to combat logic, and pure cold facts.
John, thank you so much for sharing the facts about this case with our readers. I still don’t understand why the jury overlooked DNA blood spots that were “not smeared,” or why they didn’t question the fact that no urine was found on the pajama bottoms Cisneros said he used to “wipe his hands” after urinating.
One question people repeatedly ask us regarding many of the unsolved crimes on ICC is “With so much evidence already known, why hasn’t so-and-so been charged and tried for murder?” Sadly, even with mountains of evidence against the offender (including irrefutable DNA linking the suspect to the crime), savvy criminal defense attorneys have become masters of disguise when it comes to creating reasonable doubt with juries who, all too frequently, are blinded by all the smoke and mirrors.
John Jr., and you, deserved better. One has to wonder — how long before jurors realize they’ve been “victimized” by the defense?
Katrina & Sam:
Obviously, you have never had a child kidnapped from your home, and subsequently murdered. Sam, Jody’s response to your comment is spot on, and what pointed to me? I lived there, and called the police? Katrina, not sure if you were in the courtroom, but what the media reports is solely up to them. It is not always favorable for any party at any point. They are not the jury. What you unfortunately do not realize is that finding out who did this is all I was truly concerned about over the last 20 yrs., and if you are in law enforcement you would know where I was and what I was doing. What I did know is that John’s killer was out there and capable of hurting another person or child. Everything I learned about what happened to John occurred the day I heard the closing arguments. That is all I needed to hear. Whatever the defense was saying had nothing to do with a logical defense for this guy and nothing to do with the case whatsoever. Anyone can randomly throw out what ifs to create reasonable doubt, but Cisneros was in there on the Holy Grail of cold case evidence.
He had knowledge of my apartment, because a friend of mine referred me to a Mike Cisneros to buy weed. He had come over one time when I had just moved in to that place to have me try some weed for when I wanted to buy some. That’s it.
The witnesses (you mean the one who sent me a friend request on Facebook June 22, 2014 five days after I got back to town)?? — I had retained an attorney in May 1994 prior to John’s disappearance and paid a retainer in order obtain sole custody — FACT with proof. Who would ask a barfly to adopt their child when seeking sole custody? Who?? She was in the middle of a divorce when I met her, she moved into an apartment directly below me with two weeks of us meeting (she had been living with her husband in Clear Lake. — FACT I refused to let John play with her son any longer after John was pinched by him who was slightly older. — FACT Our last communication was when she came to my apartment at 6:30am on a Saturday morning after being out all night with none other than the person who in the past few days was found passed out behind a North End Mason City bar. I told her to get lost, and never come over again. She proceeded to smash two glasses on my door. That’s a pretty shitty thing to do knowing there is a little baby living in that apartment. — FACT I then decided to move to 10 S. Adams. Her original statement was that we knew each other (we did not ‘date’…we hooked up) about 3-4 weeks…consistent with what I said at that time and what I said 20 yrs later. All of sudden on the stand it became 3 months. FACT
Enough of B. Larsen’s fiasco…her testimony in one word…PERJURY.
I worked two jobs, and went to school, so for an ex-babysitter to claim I left John for three days on end is another, in any other word, laughable. I have too many family members and others who all loved John. If this were the case I would have caught Holy Hell from them, and where would ANYONE disappear for three days in Mason City? I worked as a bartender and would get off late. This person charged an additional fee for overnight which was convenient for her & me, as to not disrupt her home day car at 12am – 2am when I got off work. Enough about these people since the trial was not about John might have had something to do with it. Both these two now can live with the fact that they contributed to allowing a baby killer to go free out of spite.
My biggest question(s) will always be: How did he happen to end up in the location of the pajama bottoms in the middle of that night, relieve himself (pee), and conveniently was near the pj’s to wipe hands off? Now, the blood was not smeared…it was drops. Wiping causes smearing. Pee, is not blood. There was no urine found on the bottoms. Any man, Sam, can we consider yourself one of these??, when urinating (especially in the dark, in the middle of the night) does not go looking for something to wipe their hands off with… a simple brush of the pant leg does the trick. He fought giving DNA for something he “knew nothing about”…he knew nothing about “a baby drowning in a river”. When I heard that part of the recording you could tell he about swallowed his heart. I ran to the hospital at the beginning to give my samples for elimination purposes. If he had nothing to worry about what was the issue?
We could go on about this ad infinitum, but it will still not change the verdict. I have true faith this guy will end up hurting someone again in his life. My focus now is work to prevent juries from sleeping on the job (yes, a few were seen actually nodding off) and using any probability in the world to combat logic, and pure cold facts.
Mr. Snyder..I am SO sorry for your loss! And I am truly sorry that the justice system failed not only you, but little John Jr. Never once did I think that the jury would actually acquit the murderer. DNA tells the story, and it just baffles me that they chose to ignore the truth. Not once, anywhere in anything I’ve read, did it even cross my mind that you had anything to do with your son’s horrific murder. Not once! I hope that you have been able to move on from this, as best as you possibly could. I cannot even begin to understand the hell that you’ve been through all of these years. I pray that you have been able to find some happiness in your life, and I commend you for handling the outcome of the trial with decorum. Had it been me, I would probably have done or said things I would later regret. I admire you Mr. Snyder..and there is no doubt in my mind that you and little John Jr. would have shared a wonderful life as father and son together. Prayers to you!
What an absolute travesty of justice. I am so very sorry for your loss Mr. Snyder, I can’t even imagine how hard this must be for you. Those 12 individuals let a guilty man go free, and when the day comes that he does it to another child, that child’s blood will be on their hands. So sad.
So sad. I wonder is the members of the jury ever feel guilty. How can DNA be on pajama bottoms but they still think someone else could have killed that little boy?
That is so wrong. How can they let someone walk. Cruelty.
Unless you were in the courtroom, day after day, listening to the testimony of all the experts, a person would conclude, the defendant had no part in this crime.
Unless you had the copies of the depositions, reviews of the case facts, reviews of all interviews of every witness in 1994, the defendant was never brought up in any of those conversations.
The DNA was never in question on who it belongs to. How it appeared, where it was, you don’t know the circumstances for how it came incontact yet people wanna pretend they know the facts when they clearly do not.
Everyone is going to have their opinions, favorable or not.
The jury sat through all that yet sided with the defendant.
The local newspapers and television picked and chose what to report day after day and got a lot of those facts incorrect.
I never saw such bad reporting on the part of Globe Gazette and KIMT.
I do however, want to commend the prosecuters for putting their own witnesses up there that did nothing but assist the defense. Their own witnesses pointed the finger at the fake dad.
Lets not forget, john sr. Is NOT the biological father of this child.
Where was he for the past 20 years? How come you never heard him try to find who did this in the past 20 years? As soon as he was able, he put Iowa in his rearview and never brought up the child again. Least of all not to law enforcement.
So bloody what, Katrina, if John Sr. is not the biological father of the child? Your comment is a slap in the face of every adoptive parent who truly loves their child(ren).
Well said, Andrea, and so very true. (Not to mention that John Snyder Sr. didn’t even know John Jr. wasn’t his biological son until almost two decades after his son’s death.) For Katrina to surreptitiously imply “motive” with the paternity issue is, in a word, shameful.
I don’t think Cisneros did it at all. I think John Snyder Sr did it and everything points to him.
Sam, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that points to John Snyder Sr., and if there were, police would have arrested him years ago. ALL evidence pointed to Michael Cisneros, including the five blood spots on little John’s pajama bottoms that matched Cisneros’ DNA profile. The sheer amount of information left out of this trial is mind-boggling. The defense didn’t even “defend” Cisneros; they simply played mind games with the jury to shift suspicion to Snyder Sr. and create “reasonable doubt.”
Cisneros’ mother had kicked him out of her home the night John Jr. vanished, and detectives placed him in the Snyders’ neighborhood that same night. Snyder Sr. had just recently moved with his son to the new apt. because a woman he had briefly dated had twice smashed glass against his former home’s door after he’d broken things off with her, and Snyder Sr. didn’t want her violent behavior terrorizing his son.
Projection (in this case, transferring emotions and character deficits to another person) flooded the courtroom in tidal waves, carrying away cold hard facts and common sense in a sea of waste. There’s a reason the defense shifted suspicion to Snyder Sr. — because they had absolutely nothing concrete with which to defend their own client.
I am with you on that 100%.
I do not understand how a jury found Cisneros not guilty when his DNA was found on the boy’s clothing. I just do not understand what those jurors were thinking!
Wow! Incredible result.
Great job,well done!!
A long journey to justice…
That is great. words can never describe the feelings when I read something like this.
Thank goodness for the perseverance of the investigators in this case! Because of all their hard work, a baby killer is behind bars!
The photograph of his little body wrapped in the white sheet is heartbreaking.
Yes, That Picture Of Doug Carnell Carrying John Jr Is So Heartbreaking, I Cry Everytime I See That Picture & Read This Case..Just The Look On Doug Carnells Face Is A Sign Of Grief & Devastation….
God rest his little soul.
Amen!!!!!
I was just on the Iowa Cold Case website last night and read this case over again. I knew that he was murdered just by the injuries he sustained~~this cold case really touched me, as it hit so close to home~I’m so happy that they found this guy after 19 long years & I hope he serves the maximum & I hope this haunts him for the rest of his life~~My thoughts and prayers go out to John Jr’s family & friends, now they can finally be @ peace and find closure in all of this…..and ‘Lil’ Angel John Jr, can finally be @ peace~~RIP John Jr……
I agree, LuAnn. Thanks so much for taking time to comment.
Your very welcome Jody~~I’m on this site alot @ night~~It would be nice if more Cold Cases would be solved…..Hopefully they will be…..
I was also going to say that my oldest son had just turned 3 in June of 1994, so John Jr, would have been a year younger then my son & I really don’t remember hearing about this case..Even though I don’t know the family, it still kind of becomes personal(because of reading the cases on this site) and you just feel for the families of these victims, and also the ones that are still missing…Like I said before it hit close to home as Im about 45 miles away from Mason City and I have family that lives in Mason City. It just tears me into pieces because John Jr’s life was robbed from him…it’s just so unfair…
I hope law enforcement will work even harder on these cold cases and solve them like in this case…I know it all takes time, but hopefully more will be solved…….
Just heard on the news that an arrest has been made in this case.
Link:
https://globegazette.com/news/local/dna-sample-leads-to-arrest-in-john-snyder-jr-murder/article_6764dc8c-ed7b-11e2-8c09-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true
Kim, it was all I could do to keep from crying (tears of joy, obviously) after learning about the arrest in this case. I’ve corresponded with John Snyder, Sr., and can only begin to imagine the relief he’s feeling today. I’m looking forward to reading about further details in this case.
They’ve made an arrest in this case. https://globegazette.com/news/local/dna-sample-leads-to-arrest-in-john-snyder-jr-murder/article_6764dc8c-ed7b-11e2-8c09-001a4bcf887a.html
This announcement literally sucked the breath out of me. I’d just posted John Jr.’s upcoming murder anniversary on the home page’s feature section a couple days ago, and wondered if the person responsible would ever be caught. The arrest reinforces my firm belief that Iowa *must* find a way to reestablish the DCI’s Cold Case Unit. DNA testing — and getting these killers off our streets — has the potential to save so many future lives.
My wife is Lisa. And we are looking for the person who is responsible for this Childs death. It seems to me this was no accident but, a murder. If so do you have a suspect and if so why no inditment?