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 where s 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 rusty s killer. hemy neuman s 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
hemy s 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? he s not crazy. he s 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
jurors heard a tape of andrea being told police had made arrest. are you serious? 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 didn t 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 friend s lawyer said he overheard the conversation. andrea tells her, i understand why you did what you did, but now you re going to have to live with what i m going to do. the trial judge banned andrea sneiderman from the courthouse
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, the widow takes the stand. he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. andrea sneiderman under scrutiny when dateline continues. [ giggling ] let s play dress-up.
greatest, and we re 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 yo-yo effect strengthened the delusions that hemy was having, and in this altered state he would listen to andrea s complaints about rusty, how the children were shying away from him. their conversation or communication was saturated with discussions of the children, saturated with andrea sneiderman s 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.