how had andrea known that fact that rusty had been shot, if no one had told her yet? and perhaps most perplexing of all, within minutes of being told that something had happened to rusty, andrea had dialed and redialed her boss. her husband who she had believed was involved in an accident? how many times did you call rusty? zero times. and a demeanor issue for the widow, the jurors heard a tape of andrea being told six weeks after her husband was shot that police had made an 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 newman resembled the police sketch. if she had any suspicion hemy was involved, why hadn t she told police? she kept seeing hemy s face
details of his friend s last moments. it was the fourth and final shot. that is the one that went through his neck, through his spine, to his spinal cord. and not only paralyzed him but he was dead at that moment? yeah. that is one of the hardest things for me to see. after delivering the kill shot, witnesses testified that newman calmly walked back to his mini van 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 had been plotted out, but now they wanted the jury to understand why. rusty was the last person standing between hemy newman and the woman he loved, andrea sneiderman. on november 15th, 2010, did you know the defendant? yes. and she offered to juicy testimony for the jury to ponder. she testified that the accused, hemy newman, had become obsessed with her weeks after
that was the question, why rusty? his friend laura hester. did any of it makes sense, were you able to come up with a theory of what happened? no i mean this was a man who is so beloved by so many people. jeffrey moss lived across the whole forest in college. always had a giant smile on his face no out of the situation. he used to and every conversation with how can i help you, what can i do for you? in the tight-knit jewish community where rusty lived, a man like him is called a mensch, a stand up guy. now that very supportive community gather on his wife of ten years. they ve been together since college, he always spoke about her with great affection and respect. the couple had moved to a suburb of atlanta after rusty accepted a job at a software
in those sketches. is that correct? not the face, it was the eyes is what she said. and those drawings, were published certainly no more than two days after rusty was shot, is that correct? i guess so. andrea hugged her best friend as she got off of the stand. once the two women were in the hallway, out of the view of the cameras and the jurors, andrea reportedly threatened her. the best friend s lawyer says that he overheard the confrontation. andrea tells her i understand you did what you did but now you are going to have to live with what i am going to do. the trial judge banned andrea sneiderman from the courthouse for the remainder of the trial. but what motive could andrea sneiderman possibly have had for any of this? investigators learned that she
to me was that he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. andrea 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 that she made her position clear. none of those feelings were ever returned. and i made myself clear where i stood. hemy got the message, at least for a while. and when hemy was not being inappropriate, she said he was a good friend. i admit to caring about hemy newman. he managed to get me to care about him. and that is actually the point. he was very good at that, very good at manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him. with rusty launching a company from the ground up, andrea said she felt she had to hold down her steady paycheck. she told the jury that she walked the tightrope the best she could. given the situation that i was in and that he was my boss, i handled them all with care and did the best i could to