was lying. we told her we knew she was lying and that didn t seem to affect her so we knew what we needed to do on the stand and we simply did it. in court, hemy neuman was the accused, but at times it looked as though andrea was on trial, too. the prosecutor suggested that andrea had been a willi partner, not only in the relationship, but in the murder itself. hemy could not have been insane if he was conspireing to kill rusty. it says, 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 being looked like a series of trysts with him in hotels abroad. a week after the trip to tahoe, he joined her in colorado. did you pick the defendant up at the airport? yes. did you take him back with you? yes. did you share a room? no.
kissed him. andrea denied the barmaid s account. did you kiss him or did he kiss you? no. in this case when you re talking about alleged affairs and someone else s husk murdered, i think people tend to think they saw a lot of things. andrea denied all of the innuendo, sharing rooms, groping one another on the dance floor. she says she never had sex with hemy neuman, a claim she repeated when her best friend confronted her after rusty s funeral. did andrea admit or deny the affair with you at that time? she denied it. based on all of the time that you ve known andrea, when she told you no, did you believe her? no, but my heart really wanted to believe her. did she make a comment about if she wasn t married? yes. what did she say? maybe if she was not married, she would have been interested. however, she loved her husband and was not interested.
the prosecutor argued, during the three-week trial. he had just one thing in his sights, rusty s wife. hemy neuman killed rusty sneiderman because he wanted his wife, his money, because he wanted his life. period. and according to the prosecutor, the evidence would show that hemy knew exactly what he needed to do to accomplish that goal. far from being crazy, the prosecutor said, he tried to plan the perfect murder. five months after hiring rusty s wife, hemy started researching guns and gun shows on the internet. around halloween of 2010, hemy newman made his purchase. he told me it was just for protection, household protection. newman 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 firing for 40 minutes. shooting at a man-shaped target. nine days later he put on a disguise. rusty spotted him and called 911. i think he has a gun in his back pocket. reporter: was this a practice run or an aborted murder attempt? newman 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 clerk remembered him. he was in a hurry and very impatient. just after 5:30 in the morning on november 18, a security camera recorded the silver minivan pulling into the
not as high as the ceiling. okay. but almost. all right. so like towering over me. hemy said the delusion took a surprising form. a demon appeared before him and he sounded like barry white. i think he s real. he also said 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 rusty sneiderman and it was hemy s duty to kill rusty to eliminate that threat. he thought he was doing the right thing because he thought he was saving those children from the same kind of trauma that he had. but the prosecution painted a different picture of hemy