{"id":186972,"date":"2026-02-21T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:23:08","slug":"husband-arraigned-on-first-degree-murder-charge-in-wifes-death-in-placerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186972\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband arraigned on first-degree murder charge in wife&#8217;s death in Placerville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A husband accused of killing his wife in Placerville was arraigned in El Dorado County court this week, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Stewart Snyder, 57, made his first appearance in court on Thursday, two days after law enforcement officials found his wife, Shelley Snyder, 56, dead from a gunshot wound inside a home on Big Oak Road.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/geoffrey-snyder-el-dorado-county-sheriff.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"geoffrey-snyder-el-dorado-county-sheriff.jpg \" height=\"733\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Booking photo of Geoffrey Snyder, 57<\/p>\n<p>                El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The El Dorado County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said deputies had responded to the area on Tuesday after receiving a report of a man brandishing a gun. Deputies detained him before searching the home and locating the body of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Snyder has remained in custody without bail since his arrest that day and faces a first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Buckeye Union Elementary School District in El Dorado County previously confirmed in a statement to CBS News Sacramento that Shelley Snyder had been a teacher in the district for over 20 years, most recently a third-grade instructor at Buckeye Elementary School near Shingle Springs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our entire district is in shock \u2014 none more so than her co-workers and the families and students, past and present, who were part of her classroom,&#8221; the district said.<\/p>\n<p>El Dorado County law enforcement officials say the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A husband accused of killing his wife in Placerville was arraigned in El Dorado County court this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8921,87964,121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-186972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-el-dorado-county","9":"tag-placerville-news","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-headlines","12":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}