correct? you re wrong? that is correct. the prosecutor called a parade of witnesses to the stand. hemy s work colleagues who had seen him every day. did you ever see anything that made you question his mental stability? no, not at all. have you ever observed him when you thought he was hallucinating? no. according to the prosecution s own expert witness, it would have been impossible for hemy to have covered up such a serious mental illness. there is going to be some evidence somewhere of a marked impairment. nor would someone so unstable have been able to methodically plot out not only the crime but the covering of his tracks, as hemy did. this was just another project for him. he did it i ve got a problem, i m going to approach this like an engineer, how do i resolve the problem? he mathematically solved his problem. during that jailhouse interview, hemy explained to the prosecution s psychiatrist
the gun in this case was in hemy s hand, but the trigger, i respectfully suggest, was pulled by andrea sneiderman. if he and andrea. or as the prosecution argued, was neuman trying to hide behind a fabricated mental illness to avoid answering for a murder plot that he concocted with his lover. which is more likely? imaginary things, i see dead people telling me to kill people or was it the woman who stood to gain $2 million and he did too? he s not crazy. he s a coconspirator. on the third day of deliberations, the jury announced it had a verdict. andrea was not in the courtroom to hear it. we the jury find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill. the jury foreperson told
happened on a trip they took together to south carolina, something andrea felt she had to repent for. read aloud what she wrote hemy in e-mail. apology is heartfelt, doesn t make the ongoing pain go away i now have. what happened? holding each other s hands and that s it. may sound worse than it is. but to me that was a betrayal. so repenting in the e-mail at least from holding his hand? yep. but the work trips together continued, and emotionally charged e-mails intensified. hemy wrote her words like marry me, i love you and this. the betrayal and anger is not about what you we do, it s cop-out, how you felt, what you wanted. how you felt when we looked at stars in tahoe, when we woke up
marriage and thinking of moving out on his wife of 22 careers. but rusty sneiderman s wife said she made her position clear. none of the feelings were returned and made myself completely clear where i stood. hemy got the message andrea said for a while and when not being inappropriate she said he was a good friend. i admit to caring about hemy, he managed to get me to care about him. that s the point. very good at that, manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him. with rusty launching a company from the ground up, andrea felt she had to hold down the steady paycheck. told the jury she walked the tightrope the best she could. given the situation i was in and he was my boss, i handled them all with care and did the
sister monique who painted a picture of hemy s painful childhood. monique, would you describe for the jury your household at 6:00 in the evening when your father was coming home? anxiety. monique explained that their father, a violent and alcoholic man, had beaten both children savagely. i ve been kicked, i ve been slapped, i ve been whipped. and those things you don t forget. and monique said hemy took the worst of the beatings. my brother got up, went to get a bowl of ice cream, and before we knew it, the bowl of ice cream went flying, hemy was getting slapped and it just kept going and going and going. but it was a boarding school that hemy had experienced his first delusion, this defense expert testified, a demon.