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Microscope . Shes gotten caught in the middle of this cross fire, and its really unfortunate. It goes against everything i know about andrea. Was she cheating with her executive boss . Be with me forever. Would that be normal communication between your boss and you . Scheming widow or suffering victim . Who kills someone elses husband . There was no affair. Murder in broad daylight. Hello and welcome to dateline extra. Im craig melvyn. Dreamed of being the next steve jobs, rising young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world, but his world came to an end one morning, with four gunshots, at first no one knew what to make of this case. But a jury made it clear, this was a crime of passion, a fatal triangle involving a husband, a wife and a boss. Heres dennis murphy. Broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot, then pop, pop, pop, pop. Several shots were fired. A man gunned down at close range outside a Nursery School in a wealthy atlanta suburb. A silver mini van screeched from the lot. Several witnesses saw the victim slumped on the ground. Right now his condition is unknown. Parents and teachers recognized the man who had been shot as a dad who just dropped off his 2yearold son. A preschool of all places had become a crime scene. We are told all the children are perfectly safe. The shooting victim being rushed to the hospital turned out to be 36yearold rusty schneiderman, a married father of two. I just hung my head and cried. Rustys older brother steve was on a plane to hawaii when he got the shocking news. Rusty was dead. Walking around on the plane, pacing around the aisles. I went to the bathroom and i looked at the door and i thought about jumping. He was desperate to get home to his family, desperate to find out what had happened to his little brother. My brother was murdered. No one should have to face that. He appeared at a Police Press Conference after the shooting to talk about the familys incomparable loss. Our whole family has lost its brightest light. And we dont know why. That was the question. Why rusty . Did any of it make sense . Were you able to come up with a they are rye . No, this was a man that was so beloved by so many people. Jeffrey moss lived across the hall from rusty at college. Always had a giant smile on his face no matter the situation, always willing to help. He used to end every conversation with how can i help you . What can i do for you . In the tight knit Jewish Community where rusty lived and was raising his family a man like him is called a standup guy. Now a Supportive Community gathered around his wife of ten years. They had been together since college. He always spoke about her with great affection and respect. The couple moved to an affluent suburb of atlanta after rusty, a harvard mba grad, accepted a job with a software company. They had a great house in atlanta, a summer house at the lake, they had a boat, two great kids. They were living the dream. A dream that was violently shattered that morning in the parking lot. The virtual execution of a young husband and father was in no ones frame of reference. The irrationality of the violence making it more terrifying. Local attorney. It put a lot of fear into a lot of people and into the whole community. The fleeting thought, was it a hate crime, was the gunman targeting jews . The other line of speculation had to do with rustys work. She once handled major amounts of money for some High Net Worth individuals, had an investment portfolio gone horribly wrong . Heres a guy dealing with serious amounts of money. The initial thought was that it was a professional hit by somebody who had lost a lot of money. And if so, was it someone that the neighborhood knew very well, maybe even a mourner circulating at the Memorial Service for rusty, sharing his condolences with the widow . An old College Roommate wondered just that. I remember looking around and i remember thinking to myself, you know, the killer could be there. You had that thought . Yeah. What made rusty such a successful businessman, his vast network of friends and associates he was happy to put together in deals made it all the more difficult for homicide detectives to single out that one person who could have such rage about rusty schneiderman. He knew a lot of people. He was an excellent networker. He was constantly expanding his business and personal goals. But detectives caught a break. Some of the witnesses were able to give the cops a description of the killer and his vehicle. It is a possible white male with a beard. Hes about 510, 511, in his 30s. A Police Department sketch artist was able to render this port rat, a face with a dark beard, and two piercing eyes. The witnesses remembered those vividly. Come forward and face justice. Dont be a coward. Who was the man in the sketch . 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While deep cleaning carpets, the added soft brush roll picks up large particles, gives floors a polished look, and fearlessly devours piles. Duo clean technology, corded and cordfree. Theres no andplace likargh e rs piles. Im trying. Yippiekiyay. Mom. Rusty schneiderman was gunned down outside his sons pre school. With an artists sketch and the description of a mini van, police went to work to track down his killer. Here again is dennis murphy. The shooter was no more than a Police Artist rendering, no details filled in. But his victim was quite different. There was a very complete picture of 36yearold rusty sneiderman, the loving husband, father brother and son who grew up outside cleveland. His mother and father, marilyn and don. In your happiest memory, what do you see rusty doing . Smiling and making you happy and laugh. He was wonderful to be around. He was a good kid. He really was. But behind that wide grin and nice guy demeanor was a determined and ambitious businessman. He always had another idea that was bigger and better than the last one. Rusty had spent time in the corporate world but now he was itching to go the steve jobs route. Rustys wife andrea, more than anyone, understood, and she backed rusty to the hilt when he wanted to focus on a startup. They were really partners in every way, shape and form whether it was in life, whether it was through business ventures. I think they both were able to treat each other in a way that made each other better. And their marriage seemed solid to people who had known them, which is why the details that came out later surprised everyone. But for now, rustys griefstricken friends and family wanted answers, answers that seemed to be taking a long time in coming. Dekalb County District attorney robert james. No one had any idea who did this when it happened. For weeks after rustys death, police had been floundering, trying to untangle rustys business relationships. Suspicious that he had been gunned down by a professional hit man, they were looking for a money trail to lead to his killer. Chasing the money trail, did it cost you a lot of investigative hours and time . It cost us thousands of investigative hours and time. As it turned out, this crime wouldnt be solved by following the money. It would be solved by following the shooters minivan, a vehicle that had been caught on the parking lot Security Cameras. Weeks after rusty had been shot, investigators track the van to this rental agency and then contacted the man whod rented it the day before the shooting. His identity would blow the investigation wide open. The man told them not only that, yes, he was the person who had rented the minivan, whats more, he said he was Andrea Sneidermans boss. Rustys widow worked for this guy. Was he the person in the Police Artist sketch . Did Andrea Sneidermans supervisor from work kill her husband . The boss was a man name hemy neuman, a 48yearold middle management supervisor at general electrics Energy Division in georgia. At ge, he was in charge of a multimilliondollar budget and thousands of employees, including his hire in april 2010, Andrea Sneiderman. Police asked neuman to come down to the station for an interview. It turned into a 5 1 2 hour interrogation. Youre shaking, youre turning, youre twisting hemy neuman appeared nervous and told the interviewers repeatedly that he had been at work the day of the shooting. I was not there. I did not pull the trigger on the gun that shot sneiderman, rusty sneiderman. The cops sweated him. Dont raise your eyebrows. Im telling you, you were there when rusty got shot. A few hours into the interview, it looked as though hemy might have something to tell police. Youre this close to telling me. Telling you what . Telling me why this all happened. But then he shut down. Even so, detectives thought they had enough evidence linking him to the crime. They arrested him and charged him with murder. Then, an amazing turn of events. After his steadfast denials, the engineer admitted that, yes, he was the shooter. But he said he was not guilty of the crime because he had been insane when he pulled the trigger. A little more than a year after his arrest, hemy neumans trial for murder began and the prosecutor argued his insanity plea was preposterous. The case against him was a simple one of lust and greed, the prosecutor argued, during the threeweek trial. Hemy neuman had just one prize in his sights, rustys wife. Hemy neuman killed rusty sneiderman because he wanted his wife, because he wanted his money, because he wanted his life. Period. And according to the prosecutor, the evidence would show that hemy knew exactly what he needed to do to accomplish that goal. Far from being crazy, the prosecutor said, he tried to plan the perfect murder. Just five months after hiring rustys wife, hemy, the prosecutor said, started researching guns and gun shows on the internet. And around halloween of 2010, hemy neuman made his purchase. He told me it was just for protection, household protection. Neuman bought a handgun along with 50 hallow point bullets for 375 cash from this man. The transaction took place in a parking lot. He seemed like he didnt know much about guns but he was interested in learning. Within days, neuman was at a gun range blasting away for 40 minutes at a manshaped target. Nine days later he put on a disguise and crept into the sneidermans yard. Rusty spotted him and called 911. Hes running. I think he has a gun in his back pocket. Was this a practice run or an aborted murder attempt . Neuman bolted when rusty confronted him. Still, he was back on the computer a few days later, this time searching for a local costume store, looking for another disguise. And then the prosecutors asserted the final countdown to murder began. 2 30 in the afternoon of november 17th, neuman rented a silver kia minivan. The desk clerk remembered him. He was in a hurry and very impatient. Just after 5 30 in the morning on november 18th, a Security Camera recorded the silver minivan pulling into the parking garage on the ge campus. The camera then caught neuman walking up the stairs. He was headed to his office where he logged on to his computer and left his cell phone on the desk. Was he trying to create an alibi . Next, hemy neuman got back in his car. He was on the move. A few hours later, Surveillance Video across town picked up his trail driving into the parking lot of the suburban atlanta preschool where rusty sneiderman was scheduled to drop off his son. Coming up, a Seismic Shift in the trial as the widow takes the stand. He had deeper feelings for me than just friends. Andrea sneiderman under scrutiny when murder in broad daylight continues. 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I saw a man with no reaction to anything. And i thought to myself, how can that man sleep at night . He is just a little weakling of a man, a little worm, just a nothing. Andrea, rustys widow, sat two rows ahead of rustys parents. What andrea did and didnt know leading up to the crime would soon become a major focus of the trial. But now, as she listened to the prosecutor detail rustys last moments, she could hardly contain her tears. The prosecutor described the killer walking up to rusty. He didnt hesitate. And he shoots him three times. As rusty falls in the parking lot that cold november morning, dying, the defendants not satisfied. He walks up and he puts that. 40caliber hollow point to rustys neck, to his jugular, and fires one last time. This is a brazen, outrageous crime. It was broad daylight, brazen, reckless abandon. Rusty sneiderman was shot perhaps about 30 feet from where children were playing. A husband and wife testified they came running when they heard the sound. I went up to the victim. Thats when i noticed that he was bleeding out. I saw him like gasping for air, and i wish i had started cpr right there, but we were in so much shock. Rusty had been best man at josh golebs wedding. The radiologist said he found it hard to hear testimony about the medical details of his friends last moments. It was the fourth and final shot. Thats the one that went through his neck, through his spine, through his spinal cord, and not only paralyzed him, but i think he was dead at that moment . Yes. Thats one of the hardest things for me to see. After delivering the kill shot, witnesses testified that neuman calmly walked back to his minivan and melted into morning traffic. Within hours he was back at his desk, observed juggling routine meetings. What did he expect to happen next . The prosecution had explained how the murder had been plotted out, but now they wanted the jury to understand why. Rusty was the last person standing between hemy neuman and the woman he loved, Andrea Sneiderman. On november 18th, 2010, did you know the defendant . Yes. Andrea offered juicy testimony for the jury to ponder. She testified that the accused, hemy neuman, had become obsessed with her weeks after she started working for him in april of 2010. That he had stalked her and her family, she said, and finally gunned down her husband. The unwelcome courtship began at ge, she said, about six months before the shooting. How much time would you spend with him on a regular basis . There were meetings every other day, constant email communications about work and projects, constant phone calls. We spoke about work things constantly. Hemy neuman quickly became a fixture in her life. Extremely friendly individual. Caring, or pretending to be very caring individual. But one night during a business trip to lake tahoe, she testified, hemy neuman stepped over the line. Did the defendant ever express his feelings for you . Yes. Outside a restaurant before they had dinner together, he read her a poem. The insinuation of the poem to me was that he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. She says her boss confided in her that he was unhappy in his marriage and was thinking of moving out on his wife of 22 years. But rusty sneidermans wife said she made her position clear. None of those feelings were ever returned, and i made myself completely clear where i stood. Hemy got the message, andrea said, at least for a while. And when hemy wasnt being inappropriate, she says he was a good friend. I admit to caring about hemy neuman, he managed to get me to care about him, and thats actually the point. He was very good at that, very good at manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him. With rusty launching a company from the ground up, andrea said she felt she had to hold down her steady paycheck. She told the jury she walked the tightrope as best she could. Given the situation that i was in and that he was my boss, i handled them all with care and did the best i could to keep him at bay. Did you ever report the defendants contact to anybody at ge . No. Why not . I would have been fired. Im sorry. I didnt hear your response. I would have been fired. Andrea had kept hemys advances to herself, for the good of her family, she told the court. But now the prosecutor wondered this. The Police Artist sketch released days after the shooting bore a striking resemblance to her boss. Why hadnt she demanded that police focus their investigation on hemy . What was she hiding . Coming up, some pointed questions for the widow. Did you wake up together in denver and tahoe . No. Was there an affair . They were groping each other. Did you see the parties kiss . Yes, i did. When murder in broad daylight continues. Oo jen but that all changed when we bought a house. 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Now back to dateline. Welcome back to dateline extra. Andrea took the stand at the trial and prosecutors had tough questions for her. Here again is dennis murphy. He pretended to be my friend, and i was doing the best that i can to deal with that situation. And he had my whole life wrapped up. Jurors had heard a harrowing tale from rusty sneidermans widow of a monster of a boss who became obsessed with his new hire, andrea. Stalking her and catastrophically ripping her life apart by snuffing out her husbands. But now the prosecution was suggesting that the toxic triangle among boss, employee, and husband, was even more complicated than it seemed. And that the wife, andrea, was holding back important details of her story. Prosecutor don geary. There was this kind of watergate question. What did she know and when did she know it . We went in, we knew she was lying. We told her we knew she was lying and that didnt seem to affect her. So we knew what we had to do on the stand, and we simply did it. In court, hemy neuman was the accused, but at times it looked as though andrea was on trial, too. The prosecution suggested andrea had been a willing partner, not only in their relationship, but possibly in the murder itself. Hemy could not be insane, the prosecutor said, if he had been conspireing to kill rusty. It said, think about it, be with me forever. Would that be normal communication between your boss and you . The victims widow was aggressively questioned about business trips with her boss that looked like a series of trysts with him in hotels abroad. A week after the trip to tahoe, when hemy read andrea a love poem, he joined her in longmont, colorado. Did you pick the defendant up at the airport . Yes. Did you take him back to longmont with you . Yes. Did you and the defendant share a room in longmont . No. She denied they spent the night together in colorado, but workers at the hotel remember a change of rooms. Our records do show that Andrea Sneiderman during her stay switched from a room of two beds and one person to a room with one bed and two people. A month later, in august, something happened on a trip they took together to south carolina. Something that andrea felt she had to repent for. She read aloud in court what she wrote hemy in an email. Your apology is heartfelt but does not make the ongoing pain go away that i now have. What happened in greenville, maam . We were holding each others hands, and thats it. It may sound worse than it is, but to me, that was a betrayal. So youre repenting in the email, at least, for holding his hand . Yep. But the work trips together continue, and the emotionally charged emails intensified. Hemy wrote words like, marry me. I love you. And this. Betrayal and anger is not about what you we did, its a copout. Its about how you felt what we wanted. How you felt when we looked at the stars in tahoe, when we woke up friday morning in denver, when you took my hand and nestled your head on my shoulder. Did that happen . Did what happen . Did you wake up together in denver and tahoe . No. Andrea might not have known it, but during this time, hemy, like a moonstruck teenager, was confiding in a Real Estate Agent friend named melanie white. He would get an email from her and he would be so excited because it had a smiley face at the end of it. The friend testified that hemy shared with her all the messages hed received from andrea. To melanies eyes, andrea wasnt pushing hemy away at all. What i saw is that andrea wanted hemy and would lead him on, going out of town with him, Holding Hands with him, and eventually, from what im told from hemy, actually having sex with him. On the stand, andrea was adamant that a trip she and hemy took to england in september was strictly business, even though their itinerary included plans to see a play and hit a nightclub. We did not go to the dance club. In fact, we did not do any of the things that are insinuated that we did on that itinerary. But jurors heard evidence that andrea and hemy did go dancing on their last trip together to greenville, south carolina, a month before rusty sneiderman was killed. The bar maid at the dance club testified that she saw public displays of affection that would have justified the taunt of, get a room. He was spinning her around and they were groping each other. Did you see the parties kiss . Yes, i did. How many times . I would say about three times. Did you see the female push the male away . No. On one occasion, she actually kissed him. Andrea denied the barmaids account. Did you kiss him or did he kiss you . No. In this case when youre talking about alleged affairs and someone elses husband being murdered, i think people tend to think they saw a lot of things. Andrea denied all the innuendo, sharing rooms, groping one another on the dance floor. She said she never had sex with hemy neuman, a claim she repeated when her best friend shaina confronted her about hemy after rustys funeral. Did andrea admit or deny the affair with you at that time . She denied it. Based on all of the time youve known andrea, when she told you no, did you believe her . No, but my heart really wanted to believe her. Did she make a comment about if she wasnt married . Yes. What did she say . Maybe if she was not married, she would have been interested. However, she loved her husband and was not interested. That statement echoed something hemy had told his friend. What did he tell you about the london trip . That he and andrea got closer. He and andrea had decided that they were soulmates. He also told me that andrea was adamant that she would not leave her husband and her two kids. Andrea was interested in hemy but would never leave her husband. That was the message rusty sneidermans wife was sending her boss, the defense would argue. And the defense promised to prove to the jury that the inner turmoil these mixed signals stirred up in hemy neuman was enough to push this mildmannered but troubled man over the edge and into the realm of legal insanity. Coming up ive been kicked, ive been slapped, ive been whipped and those things you dont forget. Haunting secrets from hemys past. And a question, did celebrity voices drive him to kill . A strange tale gets even stranger when murder in broad daylight continues. dad got it . boy got it. dad its slippery. boy nooooooo. grandma nooooooo. dad nooooooo. dog yessssss. vo quick, the quicker picker upper bounty picks up messes quicker and is two times more absorbent than the leading ordinary brand. boy hey look, i got it. 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Prolia® can cause serious side effects, like low blood calcium, serious infections, which could need hospitalization, skin problems, and severe bone, joint, or muscle pain. Are you ready . Ask your doctor how prolia® can help strengthen your bones. Andrea and her boss seemed to have a strong connection. But whether or not it was a romantic relationship was not clear, and as the trial continued demons in hemys past became a strange and significant factor in the case. Here again is dennis murphy. Whose boss kills someone elses husband . I dont care, affair or no affair. There was no affair. Who kills someone elses husband . Hemy newman was a killer. Thats what the prosecutor told the jury, what his alleged mistress told the jury. Even hemy newman said he did it, a Police Detective testified. He admits to the shooting, correct . Yes. Hemy newmans defense Attorney Says their client shouldnt go to prison because the 48yearold engineer, outwardly so calm and rational, had one more secret to confess. He had been tormented by demons since he was a boy. Defense attorney bob rubin mr. Neumans problems really began years ago, and they went undiagnosed over the course of his lifetime and, as a result, he got progressively worse. And the defense made a bold allegation to the jury that hemys violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rustys wife andrea. She had planted the seed and she had stoked the fire. And she knew that what she set out to do with somebody who was sick, that she had accomplished. His psyche was so fragile, the defense argued, that it hadnt taken much from andrea to send hemy over the edge, and if the defense could prove that he was not guilty by reason of insanity, that he didnt know right from wrong when he pulled the trigger, there was a chance he would escape prison, if not a hospital bed in a psychiatric unit. Their first witness was hemys younger sister, monique. She painted a picture for the jury of hemys painful childhood. Monique, would you describe for the jury your household at 6 00 in the evening when your father was coming home . Anxiety. Monique explained that their father, a violent and alcoholic man, had beaten both children savagely. Ive been kicked, ive been slapped, ive been whipped. And those things you dont forget. And monique said hemy took the worst of the beatings. My brother got up, went to get a bowl of ice cream, and before we knew it, the bowl of ice cream went flying, hemy was getting slapped, and it just kept going and going and going. But it was at boarding school that hemy had experienced his first delusion, this defense expert testified, a demon. He described the demon as much bigger than him. He said that when he felt and saw this demon, he felt anguish. Deep pain. By the time andrea met him, hemy neuman had a history of breakdowns. And he was teetering on the edge of having another one, according to his defense. Hemys fascination with andrea began as a fantasy, according to experts, something to help him escape his troubled life. But they say that workplace infatuation soon became something much darker. Hemys confidant said that it looked like andrea would wind hemy up, turning him hot and then cold. She treated him like a yoyo. She would have him all the way at the top, you know, just saying that this is the greatest, and were soulmates, and having a great time out of town. And then coming back in town and texting him and saying, we can only have a business relationship, we can no longer do this. Defense expert dr. Adriana flores said this yoyo effect strengthened the delusions that hemy was having, and in this altered state he would listen to andreas complaints about rusty, how the children were shying away from him. Their conversations or communication was saturated with discussions of the children, saturated with Andrea Sneidermans complaints about her relationship with her husband. Hemy thought something needed to be done, said his defense, especially when the demon, an apparition from his childhood, returned. He described it in this jailhouse interview. When you say big, how big . Not as high as the ceiling. Okay. But almost. All right. So like towering over me. Hemy said this time, the delusion took a surprising form. A demon appeared before him, and he sounded like barry white. Did you think he was real . When he comes at me, hes real. Okay. He also says he saw an angel who sounded like olivia newtonjohn. The angels message, it was as out there as the vision itself. According to hemy neuman, the angel assigned him a deadly mission. Andreas children, the angel told him, were at risk from rusty sneiderman, and it was hemys duty to kill rusty to eliminate that threat. He thought he was doing the right thing because he thought he was saving those children from the same kind of trauma that he had. But the prosecution painted a very different picture of hemy neuman. Youre saying hes faking it, hes running a number on psychiatrists without question. He was the smartest person in that courtroom. The prosecutor told the jury that hemy had lied about his hallucinations to try and get away with murder and that the defense experts had fallen for it. And if he lied to you about that delusion, then everything in your report is off the table, correct . Youre wrong . That is correct. The prosecutor called a parade of witnesses to the stand. Hemys work colleagues who had seen him every day. Did you ever see anything that made you question his mental stability . No, not at all. Have you ever observed him when you thought he was hallucinating . No. According to the prosecutions own Expert Witness, it would have been impossible for hemy to have covered up such a serious Mental Illness. There is going to be some evidence somewhere of a marked impairment. Nor would someone so unstable have been able to methodically plot out not only the crime but the covering of his tracks, as hemy did. This was just another project for him. He did it ive got a problem, im going to approach this like an engineer, how do i resolve the problem . He mathematically solved his problem. During that jailhouse interview, hemy explained to the prosecutions psychiatrist im a great, great executioner. Once a plan is in place, its going to happen. But amid all the Expert Witness testimony over several days debating hemy neumans Mental Health, a hypothetical question posed by the prosecution caught the most attention. If there was evidence that this is, in fact, a plan by andrea and the defendant to get rid of rusty so they could be together, then everything he told you would be wrong and you would be wrong, wouldnt you . If i knew that they had corroborated together, yes, that would change my opinion. This was the first time in hemy neumans trial that a direct reference was made to a potential plot between the shooter and the victims widow. What did Andrea Sneiderman know and when . Coming up we the jury jurors render their verdict. But one question still lingers, is this case closed . Are you going to seek an arrest warrant for Andrea Sneiderman . Here we go. Discover. 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Investigators had doubts about the grieving widow as soon as they had their suspect. Pushing hemy neuman during his integration to see if he would give her up as his accomplice. I think its beyond you. I think it includes someone else. The idea that andrea wasnt just a passive bystander, but that she had been on it was a theory pushed hard by the prosecution and the defense. I was crying a lot and balling. An eyewitness testified that even after the body was taken away in a ambulance, she was weeping at the scene. But the wife, when she arrived, not so much. She didnt have a tear in her eye. I told the detectives that as well. Andrea testified when she arrived at the scene that morning she had been told that he had been involved in an accident. Not that he had been shot. I didnt know what happened to rusty until i got to the emergency room. Listen to what the fatherinlaw and friend told that andrea told them them before she got to the hospital. Andrea called us and she called and said rusty had been shot. She was so so sorry. She immediately at the same time was screaming to me rusty had been shot. How had andrea known that fact, that rusty had been shot, if no one had told her yet. And perhaps most perplexing of all, within minutes of being told something happened to rusty, andrea had dialled and redialled her boss. But her husband, who she believed was in an accident. How many times did you call rusty. Rusty . Zero times. And demeanor issue. Jurors heard a tape of andrea being told six weeks after her husband was shot, police have made an arrest. Are you serious . Youre making me nervous. Are you sure . Did andrea know beforehand who the shooter was . According to a friend, andrea had confided in her that she thought hemy neuman resembled the police sketch. If she had any suspicion he was involved, why didnt she tell the police . She kept seeing his face in those sketches, is that correct . Not the face. It was the eyes is what she said. Those drawings were published certainly no more than two days after rusty was shot; is that correct . I guess. Andrea hugged her best friend as she got off the stand. Once the two women were in the hallway, out of the view of the cameras and the jurors, andrea reportedly threatened her. Best friends lawyer said he overheard the conversation. Andrea tells her, i understand why you did what you did, but now youre going to have to live with what im going to do. The trial judge banned Andrea Sneiderman from the courthouse for the remainder of the trial. What motive could Andrea Sneiderman possibly had for any of this . Investigators learned she collected 2 million in Life Insurance after rustys death, but would that really compensate her for rustys lifetime earnings . Was murder the only way out of a marriage that maybe wasnt as solid as friends thought. A close friend says andrea was a victim in that courtroom. Shes gotten caught in the middle of this cross fire between hemy and the prosecutors, and its really unfortunate. Jeffrey moss, who first knew andrea as rustys College Girlfriend and watched them start a life together and family doesnt believe andrea had anything to do with the murder. Goes against everything i know about andrea and her morals and behavior and personality. During closing arguments the focus was on andrea yet again. Had she manipulated the unstable hemy neuman into killing her husband as the defense contended . The gun in this case was in hemys hand, but the trigger, i respectfully suggest, was pulled by Andrea Sneiderman. If he and andrea. Or as the prosecution argued, was neuman trying to hide behind a fabricated Mental Illness to avoid answering for a murder plot that he concocted with his lover. Which is more likely . Imaginary things, i see dead people telling me to kill people or was it the woman who stood to gain 2 million and he did too . Hes not crazy. Hes a coconspirator. On the third day of deliberations, the jury announced it had a verdict. Andrea was not in the courtroom to hear it. We the jury find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill. The jury foreperson told dateline that they believed he was mentally ill, but nonetheless, should go to prison. We were all very passionate that we were not going to be comfortable with hemy neuman thinking he could actually walk. Was there a discussion of wheres Andrea Sneiderman, why are we not talking to her. For us it was still this is not about Andrea Sneiderman. If there was an affair, that is between andrea and hemy neuman. Before imposing sentence, the judge heard from rustys killer. Hemy neumans statement was brief. I am so so sorry. I am sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor. Then it was over for the disgraced business executive. Neuman was led away after the judge sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison. And in a written Statement Issued after the verdict, Andrea Sneiderman said she was grateful to the jurors and felt justice had finally been done for rusty. But the prosecution wasnt finished. In 2012 Andrea Sneiderman was charged in the murder of her husband rusty. Those charges were dropped then in august 2013 sneiderman faced new charges and was found guilty of perjury and hindering the apprehension of a killer. Sentenced to five years, in 2014, Andrea Schneiderman was released from prison and completed her parole three years later. In 2015, a break for hemy neuman, or was it . The Georgia Supreme Court threw out the original conviction. Saying the trial court erred in admitting evidence protected by Attorney Client privilege. But in a 2016 retrial, a jury found hema guilty once again. And he was sentenced to life without parole plus five years. Thats all for this edition of dateline extra, im craig melvin. Thanks for watching. Very consistent. Im a very stable genius. 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