friends. he managed to get me to hear about it. he had my whole life wrapped up. thank you. she s at the center of a riveting courtroom drama. the wife whose entrepreneur husband was found murdered one cold autumn morning. our whole family has lost its brightest light and we don t know why. he s one of accused of the crime so why isn t she under the microscope? she s gotten caught in the middle of his crossbar and it s really unfortunate. it goes against everything i know about andrea. we see cheating with her executive boss? being with me forever, would that be normal communication between your boss and you? scheming widow or suffering victim? who kills someone else s husband? there is no fair. hello i m welcome to dateline. it was a young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world but 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 fader triangle involving a husband, wife, and t
day after day in court, marilyn and dawn snyderman sat just feet from the man who had a slain their son. the one who had so stolen away their families. piece i saw a man with no reaction to anything. and i thought to myself, how can that man sleep at night? he is just a little weakling of a man. a little worm. i mean, just nothing. andrea, rusty s widow sat two rows ahead of rusty s parents, what andrea did and did not know leading up to the crime would soon become a major focus of the trial. but, now as she listened to the prosecutor detail rusty s last moments, she could hardly contain her tears. the prosecutor described the killer walking up to rusty. he did not hesitate. shoots him three times. as rusty falls in the parking lot, that cold november night, dying. the defendant is not satisfied.
the defense made a bold allegation to the jury. that his violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rusty s wife andrea. she had planted the seed. she had stoke the fire. and she knew, that what she set out to do with somebody who is sick. that she had accomplished. his psyche was so fragile the defense argued that it had not taken much from andrea to send him over the edge. and if the defense team could prove that he was not guilty by reason of insanity. and did not know right from wrong when he pulled the trigger, there was a chance that he would escape prison. if not a hospital bed at a century of trick unit. the first witness was his younger sister monique. she painted a picture for the jury of his painful childhood. monika, would you describe for the jury your household at 6:00 in the evening when your
by the time adria met him, he had a history of breakdowns. and he was teetering on the edge of having another one, according to his defense. his in fascination with andrea began as a fantasy according to mental health experts, something to help him escape his troubled life. but they say that the workplace infatuation soon became something much darker. his confidant testified that it looked to her as though andrea would wind heavy, up turn him hot and then cold. she treated him like a yo yo. she would have him all the way up at the top, just saying that this is the greatest, that we are so minutes and having a great time out of town. then coming back into town, texting him and saying, we can only have a business relationship, we can no longer do this. defense expert, dr. adriana flores says the yo-yo effect strengthened the delusions he was having. saying that in this altered state, he would listen to andrea complain about rusty.
funeral. did andrea admit or deny the affair with you at that time? she denied. it based on all of the time you ve known andrea, when she told you no, did you believe her? no, but my heart believed. really wanted to believe her. did she make a comment about if she wasn t married? yes. maybe if she was not married, she would have been intrusted, however she loved her husband and was not interested. that statement, echoed something that hemy had told his friend. what did you tell you? that he and andrea got closer. he and andrea had decided that they were soulmates. he also told me that andrea was adamant that she would not leave her husband. and her two kids. andrea was interested in hemy but would not leave her husband. that was the message rusty was sending her wife the defense widower. and the defense promised to prove to the jury that the