Cops ask the public’s help them crack the case in the slaying of SUNY student Elizabeth Howell

Police desperate for clues in the slaying of a SUNY Potsdam music education student released a photo of the banged-up, snow-covered car that the accused killer used to carry out the crime in hope that someone will come forward with information about how the suspect chose his target.

Michael J. Snow, 31, allegedly drove nearly 100 miles, from his home in Massena, New York, near the Canadian border, to College Park Road in Pottsdam on February 18 to gun down Elizabeth Howell, 21.

Investigators are asking anyone who saw Snow or the car along this deadly route to call (518) 873-2750.

The gray four-door Honda Civic, which has a dented driver’s side door and snow covering the back window, traveled through the upstate New York towns Hopkinton, Malone, Westville, Hogansburg and Massena between…