jurors heard a tape of andrea being told police had made arrest. are you serious? did andrea know beforehand who the shooter was? according to a friend, andrea had confided in her that she thought hemy neuman resembled the police sketch. if she had any suspicion he was involved, why didn t she tell the police? she kept seeing his face in those sketches, is that correct? not the face. it was the eyes is what she said. those drawings were published certainly no more than two days after rusty was shot; is that correct? i guess. andrea hugged her best friend as she got off the stand. once the two women were in the hallway, out of the view of the cameras and the jurors, andrea reportedly threatened her. best friend s lawyer said he overheard the conversation. andrea tells her, i understand why you did what you 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
did the defendant ever express his feelings for you? yes. outside a restaurant before they had dinner together, he read her a poem. the insinuation of the poem to me was that he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. she says her boss confided in her that he was unhappy in his marriage and was thinking of moving out on his wife of 22 years. but rusty sneiderman s wife said she made her position clear. none of those feelings were ever returned, and i made myself completely clear where i stood. hemy got the message, andrea said, at least for a while. and when hemy wasn t being inappropriate, she says he was a good friend. i admit to caring about hemy neuman, he managed to get me to care about him, and that s actually the point. he was very good at that, very good at manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him.
he was desperate to get home to his family, desperate to find out what had happened to his little brother. my brother was murdered. no one should have to face that. he appeared at a police press conference after the shooting to talk about the family s incomparable loss. our whole family has lost its brightest light, and we don t know why. that was the question. why rusty? his friend, laura hester. did any of it make sense? were you able to come up with a theory of what had happened there? no. i mean, this was a man that just was so beloved by so many people. jeffrey moss lived across the hall from rusty at college. always had a giant smile on his face no matter the situation. ended every conversation with, how can i help you? what can i do for you? in the tight-knit jewish community where rusty lived and was raising his family, a man like him is called a mensch, yiddish for a standup guy.
cpr right there, but we were in so much shock. rusty had been best man at josh goleb s wedding. the radiologist said he found it hard to hear testimony about the medical details of his friend s last moments. it was the fourth and final shot. that s the one that went through his neck, through his spine, 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 plotted out, but now they wanted the jury to understand why. rusty was the last person standing between hemy neuman and
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 the unstable hemy neuman into killing her husband as the defense contended? the gun in this case was in