saying that this is the greatest, and we re soulmates, and having a great time out of town. and then coming back in town and texting him and saying, we can only have a business relationship, we can no longer do this. defense expert dr. adriana flores said this yo-yo effect strengthened the delusions that hemy was having, and in this altered state he would listen to andrea s complaints about rusty, how the children were shying away from him. their conversation or communication was saturated with discussions of the children, saturated with andrea sneiderman s complaints about her relationship with her husband. hemy thought something needed to be done, said his defense, especially when the demon, an apparition from his childhood, returned. he described it in this jailhouse interview. when you say big, how big?
listen to what the father-in-law and friend told that andrea told them them before she got to the hospital. andrea called us and she called and said rusty had been shot. she was so so sorry. she immediately at the same time was screaming to me rusty had been shot. 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 something happened to rusty, andrea had dialled and redialled her boss. but her husband, who she believed was in an accident. how many times did you call rusty. rusty? zero times. and demeanor issue. jurors heard a tape of andrea being told police had made arrest.
someone wanted him dead. first, no one knew what to make of this case, but a jury made it clear, this was a crime of passion, a fatal triangle involving a husband, a wife, and a boss. here s dennis murphy. broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot. then pop, pop, pop, pop. several shots were fired. a man gunned down at close range outside a nursery school in a wealthy atlanta suburb. a silver minivan screeched from the lot. startled witnesses saw the victim slumped on the ground. right now his condition is unknown. parents and teachers recognized the man who had been shot as a dad who had just dropped off his 2-year-old son. a preschool, of all places, had become a crime scene. we are told all the children are perfectly safe. the shooting victim being rushed to the hospital turned out to be 36-year-old rusty sneiderman, a married father of two. i just hung my head and cried. rusty s older brother steve was on a plane to hawaii when he got the shocking news. rusty
much about guns but he was interested in learning. within days, neuman was at a gun range blasting away for 40 minutes at a man-shaped target. nine days later he put on a disguise and crept into the sneidermans yard. rusty spotted him and called 911. he s running. i think he has a gun in his back pocket. was this a practice run or an aborted murder attempt? neuman 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 18th, a security camera recorded the
was raising his family, a man like him is called a mensch, yiddish for a standup guy. and now that very supportive community gathered around his wife of ten years, andrea. she seemed to be a good fit for him? absolutely. they had been together since college. he always spoke about her with great affection and respect. the couple moved to dunwoody, affluent suburb of atlanta, after rusty, a software grad, accepted a job with a software company. they had a great house in atlanta, a summer house out at the lake, a boat, two great kids. they were living the dream. a dream that was violently shattered that morning in the parking lot. the virtual execution of a young husband and father was in no one s frame of reference. the irrationality of the violence making it all the more terrifying. local attorney ester panage. it put a lot of fear into a lot of people, into the whole community. the fleeting thought, was it a hate crime, was the gunman targeting jews? the other line of spe