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 victim s 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.
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 conversations 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. 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.
rusty s 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 wouldn t be solved by following the money. it would be solved by following the shooter s 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 who d 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, what s more, he said he was andrea sneiderman s boss. rusty s widow worked for this guy. was he the person in the police artist sketch? did andrea sneiderman s supervisor from work kill her husband? the boss was a man
hemy neuman into killing her husband as the defense contended? the gun in this case was in 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
through his spinal cord, and not only paralyzed him, but i think he was dead at that moment? yes. that s 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