neuman, a 48-year-old middle management supervisor at general electric s energy division in georgia. at ge, he was in charge of a multimillion-dollar 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. you re shaking, you re turning, you re 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. don t raise your eyebrows. i m 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. you re this close to telling me. telling you what? telling me why this all
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. and while your pants struggle to support the heavier you, your roof struggles to support the heavier me. [laughter] whoo. [crash] and your cut-rate insurance might not pay for this. so get allstate, you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands? with advil liqui-gels, what stiff joints?
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 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 rusty s death, but would that really compensate her for rusty s lifetime earnings? was murder the only way out of a marriage that maybe wasn t as solid as friends thought. a close friend says andrea was a victim in that courtroom. she s gotten caught in the middle of this cross fire between hemy and the prosecutors, and it s really unfortunate. jeffrey moss, who first knew andrea as rusty s college girlfriend and watched them start a life together and family doesn t 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
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 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 to the jurors and felt justice had finally been done for rusty. but the prosecution wasn t 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.