how the murder 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 e-mail
and now with the conclusion of murder in broad daylight, here again is dennis murphy. andrea sneiderman is playing each and every one of us for a fool. 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 it s beyond you. i think it includes someone else. the idea that andrea wasn t 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 didn t 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 didn t know what happened to rusty until
on the internet. and around halloween of 2010, hemy neumanmade 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 didn t 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 man-shaped target. nine days later he put on a disguise and crept into the sneidermans yard. rusty spotted him and called 911. he s 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
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
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. did you think he was real? when he comes at me, he s real. okay. he also says he saw an angel who sounded like olivia newton-john. the angel s message, it was as out there as the vision itself. according to hemy neuman, the angel assigned him a deadly mission. andrea s children, the angel told him, were at risk from