to influence their elections. after passing their initiative by more than 90%, she was confident other cities would quickly follow suit. but in april of 2010, less than a month later, the republican majority arizona state legislature passed a bill banning local governments like tempe from disclosing dark money donors. that bill was drafted in large part by the american legislative exchange council, a conservative think tank that gets funding and guidance from the koch brothers and aps. the reality is as of today, as of this moment, if there is dark money spent in tempe, you are not necessarily going to know who is behind it, right? well, the problem is legislature passed a law to preempt it to interfere with it. they re telling us it is against the arizona constitution. so we re expecting to have a legal battle soon. we haven t yet. but we re fully expecting that to happen. despite the long road ahead,
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 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.
casing for a .380 caliber handgun. an analysis of a comforter also found in that bedroom revealed something else. and the forensic scientist was able to determine that ethanol was on the comforter. reporter: that suggested an accelerant had been used to set rob s body on fire. for bergen county prosecutor john molinelli, that was a disturbing development. that s because this was now the arson homicide in bergen county in less than a year. are those other two murders the first thing that come to your mind when you see this crime scene? there was certainly a discussion and a deliberation on the topic, certainly within the first few weeks of the cantor murder. reporter: on the surface, there were haunting similarities. in april of 2010, 69-year-old dolores alliotts had been found stabbed to death in her burning home. she was a woman that was known to leave her house open. she did not lock her doors.
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 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
on the surface, there were haunting similarities. in april of 2010, 69-year-old dolores alliotts had been found stabbed to death in her burning home. she was a woman that was known to leave her house open. she did not lock her doors. it could have been a stranger from the street. reporter: a few months later, 74-year-old joan davis, a well known community activist seen here at a teaneck city council meeting was found strangled and stabbed to death in her burning home. we had always believed that the person who murdered joan davis was someone that she let into the house. reporter: and now, rob cantor had been found dead in his burning home also in teaneck. very early on we were looking at you know, could rob cantor s killer be the same killer in teaneck with ms. davis and in palisades park with ms. alliotts. reporter: the answer was unclear, at first. but detectives did have leads in the cantor case. a neighbor had reported seeing a