[dramatic music]
- Dunwoody is an affluent community,
Very family-centric.
Large jewish community lives there,
And it's been that way for decades.
Very close-knit.
- It was a quiet community that
Kind of turned upside down when this happened.
- We received 911 calls that shots had been fired
Outside of dunwoody prep.
[gunshots]
- The shooter just approached the victim and began shooting.
[gunshot]
- Rusty sneiderman was a family man.
He was all about his kids.
- Everyone's asking themselves, how can this happen to rusty?
He was so likable.
- Our initial thoughts were, maybe this was about custody.
Maybe there was a dispute in the parking lot.
- There was a possibility that maybe this was a hate crime.
[camera shutter snapping]
- We know wife, andrea, wasn't totally truthful with us.
Was she having an affair?
- The more we looked, the more we could find.
- We start pulling phone records.
And the amount of phone calls was probably in the hundreds.
- He was obsessed with her. He was in love with her.
- We get the video back, and we're able to get
A good still shot of the suspect vehicle.
- We didn't recover any dna evidence or fingerprints.
- It's frustrating. It's hard.
We have a community that's upset.
You want more than anything to be able to bring them
Closure on this case.
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[gunshot]
♪ ♪
[sirens wailing]
- A half-hour drive north of atlanta
Is dunwoody, georgia, a picturesque suburb
With exquisite million-dollar homes,
A charming downtown square,
And a resident population
Fueled by old and new money alike.
- Dunwoody is an affluent area and a place
That people desire to live because of its location.
We're close to atlanta.
Easy to get over to cobb county.
Easy to get over to gwinnett county.
- It's known for its good schools, its low crime,
High-quality services.
- The upscale and fashionable town
Draws a diverse group of people,
Including a large jewish community.
- If you're jewish and you're new to atlanta,
You probably want to come to dunwoody.
It's been the home to generations of jewish families
And there's a lot of large synagogues.
One of the things that makes dunwoody attractive
To the jewish community is, it's safe.
It's a place you would want to raise a family.
- But the community fabric is torn apart
As gunshots ring out in a place no one in dunwoody
Could have ever imagined.
[gunshots]
- On November 18, 2010,
We received a 911 phone call
Saying a man had been shot in the dunwoody village.
- The first call to 911, a woman said she saw a man
Shot close, execution-style.
He was ambushed.
[siren wailing]
- Police immediately rush to the scene.
- Dunwoody prep is a school that's located
In kind of the heart of dunwoody
In dunwoody village.
It's the center of the city, so to speak.
- The victim is 36-year-old rusty sneiderman.
Nonresponsive but still alive,
Rusty is taken to atlanta medical center
As investigators start to canvass the crime scene.
- There were several witnesses to the shooting.
And they pretty much described the same thing,
That rusty sneiderman had just dropped his son off
Minutes before at the school.
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- Witnesses told us that a male
Walks up to rusty sneiderman,
Begins shooting...
[gunshots]
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And that male subject then gets into a silver minivan
And takes off out of the village parking lot.
[tires squealing]
His direction of travel is unknown.
- We had a couple people that thought it might be
A dodge caravan, but they weren't 100% sure.
- Witnesses stated that words were not exchanged
Between the two of them beforehand.
The shooter just approached the victim and began shooting.
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- Witnesses tell police the shooting happened
So quickly, they can only recall a few details.
- He's got a ski cap on and what looks to be a beard.
- But one of the benefits of where this crime happened
Was the fact that we had a number of witnesses to it.
Those witnesses were pretty consistent in a male,
Possibly looked like to be wearing some type of disguise.
- Almost looked like it was a fake beard, which led to,
Is the beard fake or real?
We didn't know.
- With no time to spare, detectives put out a bolo
For a suspect who looks like the shooter
And is driving a silver minivan.
In the meantime, school officials
Reach out to rusty's wife,
36-year-old andrea sneiderman.
- Andrea received a call from someone at dunwoody prep
Advising her there had been an incident involving her husband
And she needed to come there, that her son was ok.
- Andrea sneiderman arrives on scene.
She's met by our officers, who basically--
There's nothing for her to do there.
Go to the hospital.
That's where you need to go.
- Doctors work furiously to save the young father's life,
But sadly, rusty succumbs to his wounds:
Four gunshots, three to his chest
And one that pierced his neck.
[sustained beep]
- I went to the hospital.
When the doctors notified andrea sneiderman
That he had passed, I remember her--
Her hands over her eyes.
And she started to wail.
Sadness and sorrow.
It felt like answers needed to be now.
- As detectives continue to question witnesses,
The forensics team scours the crime scene for clues.
- We collected four shell casings at the crime scene
Around rusty sneiderman's body.
- They were all .40-caliber shell casings,
And that began our identification
Of what style weapon was being used.
- While the csi techs swab for fingerprints and dna,
Detectives search for security cameras.
- We found some surveillance video from dunwoody prep,
And we give the video
To the georgia bureau of investigation to process.
Early in our investigation, we didn't have
The tag number of the vehicle that we're looking for.
We didn't have a suspect.
We didn't have any information that would lead
To who might have done this.
- What do we have? What are we gonna work with?
Our original description that we were given
Of the suspect with a beard.
- With few clues to go on,
Detectives begin to take a closer look
Into rusty's personal and professional life
And reach out to his inner circle.
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- I met rusty as a consequence
Of our both having gone to the same graduate school.
We both went to harvard business school.
My first impression is, this is a nice guy.
He had wonderful energy.
Rusty grew up in the cleveland area.
He went to undergraduate at indiana university.
That's where he met andrea.
- They kind of knew from the beginning that they were
Gonna be a couple, and they were married soon after.
They moved down to atlanta for the same reason
A lot of people move to atlanta: Good jobs.
- This was a good marriage.
This is the kind of marriage and family
That you want to see.
You want to see families thriving.
And they had a thriving family.
- The couple was raising two children:
A five-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy.
- They had a lovely home.
They lived in a good neighborhood.
Rusty had been very successful at an early age,
In part because of the expertise
That he had developed both in business
But also in the insurance area.
Andrea had taken a job with general electric.
Rusty and andrea were involved not only
In philanthropic work;
They were involved with their synagogue.
And they were just recognized
As good, decent, hardworking people.
You know, everyone's asking themselves,
How can this happen?
How can this happen to rusty?
♪ ♪
- Police are searching tonight for a man
Who shot and killed a father today
Right in front of a dunwoody preschool.
- It's the lead story in all the news,
Tv stations, and, of course, in our paper.
We were doing a lot of background on,
Why would this guy be murdered like this?
There was a possibility that maybe this was a hate crime.
- With the victim being jewish,
We thought that it could have been an anti-semitic attack
On a member of the jewish community.
The community had a lot of questions.
We already built up several relations
With the synagogues in our area.
And they were asking us, hey, is this something
We need to be concerned about?
Do we need to put our locations on lockdowns?
- Those were some of the questions that we got.
That was some of the pressure that we received.
And it's good pressure.
We got to have answers. We got to figure out why.
- Investigators continue to build on the few leads
They've collected.
- The gbi sketch artist was called in immediately
To start getting a sketch of the suspect
Based on the witness statements.
- 5'10"-ish, more of a slender build,
Possible fake beard.
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- The sketch was done almost immediately
And sent out to the media.
So we had thousands of eyes helping us look for a suspect.
- That really is sort of what triggered a lot of the talk
About, this was a hate crime.
I think a lot of people did think that
Just because there was no other reasonable explanation.
- Within hours of police releasing the sketch,
Detectives get an alarming call
From a woman outside of a grocery store.
- A lady was walking out of a publix,
And she's like, I think I saw the guy.
It looks like him.
Like, it's the beard.
I don't want to go by his car.
Like, I'm scared.
This murder happened in broad daylight.
We've got to get out there right now.
♪ ♪
- Rusty kept a lot of detailed journals
About what was going on there,
Some of which could be considered maybe shady.
We received the names of the owners of a company.
Rusty was the chief financial officer for the company.
- It could be another piece of the puzzle
That helps us put together this entire story.
♪ ♪
- The city of atlanta is traumatized
After 36-year-old rusty sneiderman
Is gunned down in cold blood...
[gunshot]
By a disguised man in a fake beard
Outside of his son's preschool.
Hours after the shooting, investigators release
A sketch of the suspect and get a hot tip.
A man resembling the shooter has been sighted
Outside a grocery store.
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- I tracked down the lead.
He looked like the suspect
From the description that we had given out.
So we want to bring him in and question him.
- When investigators speak with the individual,
He tells them he doesn't know the sneidermans
And he's never rented a silver minivan.
- He had no idea.
And he was a military guy.
It's not the guy.
You know, he has an alibi.
There are so many people that want answers,
And they look at us for those answers.
That's our job.
When we strike out, it's frustrating.
It's hard.
- Heartbroken and in search of answers,
Rusty's family makes a passionate public plea.
- The sneidermans were very kind of frustrated.
They didn't feel like this investigation was progressing
At the pace it should and was not
Looking into everything, every possibility.
So they come. They hold a press conference.
- We need your help desperately.
Any information, anything at all could help.
- As we continue our investigation,
The sneiderman family put up a reward of $10,000
To try to help garner some interest
And possible leads in the case.
- But investigators aren't waiting around
For the phone to ring.
They circle back to rusty's family
To see what additional information they can provide.
- Some things that they know, they might think
Are irrelevant to the case, but it could be
Another piece of the puzzle that helps us
Put together this entire story.
Some of our initial questions are to andrea.
Are there any financial hardships?
Are you having any difficulties at this time?
Would anyone want to hurt rusty?
Is rusty having an affair?
- She said, no, he was a model husband.
There was no--nothing like that was going on.
- We asked andrea if there was any involvement
On her end, any affairs.
She mentioned hemy neuman.
She said hemy neuman was her boss.
He had made an advance on her, but she quickly shut it down.
But we didn't close any possibility.
We wanted to start clearing people.
- Andrea provides police with a list of everyone
She and rusty had been in contact with
Over the past several months.
- Several of the business partners
That have dealings with rusty were all investigated,
And they all did not yield any information or as suspects.
- While most of his current business associates
Are in the clear, investigators discover
That rusty had a bitter falling-out
With a former employer.
- We received the names of the owners of a company.
Rusty was the chief financial officer for the company.
It is kind of a learning center for children,
And it's a franchise company.
And so they sell franchises, you know, all over the place.
- After speaking with company insiders,
Detectives discover that rusty was very upset
With his role at the company.
- His job there was basically to lure people
Into investing in franchises that were already
Going under, basically.
And that led to a lot of unhappy clients.
- There was a non-amicable breakup
Between rusty sneiderman and that company.
Rusty kept a lot of detailed journals
About what was going on there,
Some of which could be considered maybe shady.
And as part of their separation,
He was supposed to give those journals up,
But he made copies of them.
- Is it possible rusty was silenced
Because he was getting ready to blow the whistle?
- Rusty knew the inner workings of that company
And the things that they were doing.
Definitely put them in line with being potential suspects.
It definitely offered a motive, right?
But again, we either have to clear that motive,
Or we have to confirm it-- one or the other.
- When detectives question the owners,
They immediately note that neither
Resembles the description of the shooter.
And they quickly discover that both owners
Have alibis that check out.
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- So while investigating them,
We ultimately deemed them as not being suspects.
There was motive there, but they were cleared.
However, they in turn lead us down another path.
- Talking to the owners, they kind of
Pointed us toward a franchisee that had lost everything,
Maybe someone who might have a motive to do something,
You know, to rusty.
- They tell detectives about a woman named michelle driver
And michelle driver's son, chris,
Who lost about everything investing
In a franchise that was pretty much already gone.
- With this new lead, detectives now wonder
If these clients of rusty's who lost everything
Could have enacted revenge.
- It definitely offered a motive.
The drivers lost their money, and so they
May have reason to have killed rusty sneiderman.
- We had to track down michelle driver
And her son, christopher driver,
To determine if they had anything to do with it.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- In the murder investigation
Of atlanta businessman rusty sneiderman,
Investigators have just received a hot tip
From one of rusty's former bosses.
They've learned that an ex-client of rusty's
Lost everything from an investment he oversaw.
And they worry she and her son could have sought out revenge.
♪ ♪
- Detectives track down her son,
Who's working at a goodwill, and he tells the story.
Michelle, she had taken out inheritance
From her late husband and invested
Her savings, basically, in this business that went under.
And she lost pretty much everything.
- He became more and more agitated
Telling a story that was kind of suspicious.
- With homicides, most often, it's close to the victim.
So we're asking him, where were you on the 18th
Around 9:00 in the morning?
In his explanation of his whereabouts,
He provides us with, when I clock in,
It's a fingerprint identification
That allows me access.
In fact, he was almost a little confused
When we spoke to him.
He said, I don't even know that my mom
Ever met sneiderman.
But, no, we didn't kill rusty sneiderman.
- Detectives note that christopher looks nothing
Like the description of the assailant.
And when they look into his alibi, it checks out.
- As an investigator, it's a roller coaster,
Going through those emotions.
You get excited, and then you realize, like, no,
This is not leading anywhere.
You have to go back to square one.
- As our investigative leads dwindled, you know,
There is always a concern in the back of your mind,
Are we gonna be able to solve this case?
- One week after the shooting, the team learns
The surveillance footage from the preschool's parking lot
Has been processed and is ready for viewing.
- I felt confident that as we got
The leads related to the vehicle,
We could solve the case a lot faster.
- Detectives scrub through the surveillance footage,
And they catch a break:
A clear shot of the killer's van fleeing the scene.
- Once we get the video back and we're able
To get a good still shot of the suspect vehicle,
We start trying to identify what make this vehicle is.
- What we knew is that we had a silver minivan
That left the scene.
We had no tag.
Obviously, can't see the identification number.
- But because we had several witnesses
Tell us they thought it was a dodge caravan,
We took it to dodge.
They immediately said that was not a dodge.
And they did kind of point us toward it
Possibly being a kia.
We took it to kia.
And an engineer at kia looked at it
And said, yeah, that's a kia sedona.
We're like, oh, my god, at least we know what it is.
And we found out, you know, fairly quickly
That it was a limited number of those
Had been sold in our area.
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- After investigators confirm the minivan's make and model,
They review the security footage again,
Looking for clues to narrow down their search.
- The video is clear enough to show us
Some identifying markers, which are the white stickers
On the windshield.
The location of the two white stickers
Made us believe it was a fleet vehicle.
Being a fleet vehicle, we thought,
Well, maybe it could be a rental car company.
♪ ♪
We took that photo.
We fanned out to different rental car companies,
Saying, hey, does this match your stickers,
Or do you know what company
Puts stickers in those location?
The search was extensive.
But based on the position of the stickers,
We were able to narrow it down to enterprise rental vehicles.
♪ ♪
So we started expanding our search to different
Enterprise locations.
And one of our investigators said,
I'll go to one of our enterprises
That's near his home and ask,
Hey, does this match one of the vehicles?
He actually saw a kia sedona with the stickers
Matching in the similar location
Off of the still shot on the lot.
- The unique pattern of the stickers on the windshield
Is identical to those from the surveillance photo,
But investigators still need more information
To confirm it's the same van.
- We were able to ultimately get the vehicle
And have it processed.
[camera shutter snapping]
- Now in possession of the potential getaway vehicle,
Detectives hope they can find forensic evidence
That leads them to their killer.
- We had the car.
Now we're starting to get antsy.
Everything has failed for us up until this point.
All of the leads that we've tracked down
Have come up empty-handed, but now we're on it.
♪ ♪
- During our search of the vehicle,
We did not recover any dna evidence or fingerprints
Or anything like that, but we did recover some fibers
That were later examined.
They appeared to be fibers that would come from
Some type of fake beard.
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- What we're thinking at this time is, this was planned.
It took some time to plan a costume, to rent a vehicle.
- It matches our original description
That we were given of almost the beard being fake.
Now we have confirmed that.
And what this is doing to us is allowing us to shift gears.
Things are fixing to get hot.
We're gonna start looking.
- The team has found the getaway vehicle.
But the question is, who was it rented to
The day rusty was murdered?
- We're able to see that the vehicle was rented
The day before the incident and returned that afternoon.
And then when we started looking further
Into who rented it, we realized that the purchase
Was made in cash.
- And then they find out that he had to leave a deposit.
And his deposit, he uses his credit card.
And this person is hemy neuman.
♪ ♪
- The name hemy neuman didn't mean much to me,
But it was soon after, we're able to realize
That that name matches another name that's in our case file.
And it was also andrea's boss.
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- Andrea had mentioned that he had
Kind of made a pass at her.
And so we became a little more focused
On trying to find out not only what hemy did but why.
♪ ♪
- Atlanta businessman rusty sneiderman was shot
Outside his son's preschool.
And detectives have just found the getaway car
And a primary suspect:
48-year-old hemy neuman, the boss of rusty's widow,
Andrea sneiderman.
- Once we identified hemy neuman,
Detectives asked him if he would come talk to us.
And he consented to do that.
- He was a career ge guy.
The man had a family with children.
You know, you might say someone's a rocket scientist.
Hemy neuman was a rocket scientist for real with ge.
- When neuman sits down with the investigators,
They get right to the point
And ask him about his whereabouts
At the time of the murder.
- During the interview of hemy neuman,
You know, he provides an alibi that he was at work.
- His demeanor during that interview was quite calm
For someone who's being questioned
In regards to a homicide.
He was almost eerily calm.
- When neuman said that, we started thinking the motive
Of the murderer was love.
- Even when investigators ask the ge exec
If he shot rusty sneiderman,
Neuman doesn't flinch.
- When he was asked these direct questions,
He wouldn't answer.
If someone was to ask you, did you kill someone,
Normal answer would be no, but he avoided that.
- He did not deny killing rusty sneiderman,
Even when they accused him of it.
- While hemy doesn't confess, his link
To the killer's vehicle gives investigators
Enough evidence to arrest him for the murder
Of rusty sneiderman.
- Police announced they'd arrested rusty's killer,
Hemy neuman, a 48-year-old
East cobb father of three
With no criminal history.
- Later that day, detectives meet with andrea at her home
To deliver news of the arrest.
- Andrea says she has no idea
Why hemy neuman would kill her husband.
So detectives focus on building their case
Against neuman,
Starting with his claim that he was at work
When rusty was shot.
- We know what time, according to him,
He got to ge, what time he left.
All of those are facts provided from him.
We then show up at ge with search warrants,
And we start collecting information.
They have video surveillance.
- Once the team checks the security cam footage,
It reveals a very different story
Than the one neuman told earlier.
- On that particular day, he'd come in at 5:30.
And then he said he was there all day,
But we were able to prove that he had left
Through a side door.
We had video of that.
[dramatic music]
- We have surveillance video of him leaving
In his silver minivan,
Driving out around 8:00,
None of which he provided to us.
- They've got their man.
They've got his name as the renter of the car.
They've got a hair from a fake beard,
Which every witness had indicated he was wearing.
And really, the last thing the police need
Is connecting the murder weapon,
Which is .40-caliber gun, to hemy neuman.
- The team finds no record
Of neuman owning a .40-caliber pistol,
So they review his phone records
To see who he was in contact with
In the weeks leading up to the murder
In hopes of finding someone who may have
Provided him with the weapon.
- There were several phone calls
That we weren't able to tie in that--out of the norm.
One of the phone calls was to a gentleman
Later identified as jan desilva.
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- Jan desilva is a valet that hemy reached out to.
And he said, yes, in fact, I did sell him
My handgun on Halloween.
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- When asked what type of gun,
He was able to identify it as a .40-caliber gun,
Which was great.
It was information that no one in the community knew
In the case of what caliber gun was being used.
- We ask him, do you have any of the ammunition?
He in turn says, no, I don't.
However, my girlfriend may.
For whatever reason, she kept a casing.
We were able to send that casing for ballistics,
And it returns a match.
We're on fire. We're excited.
We finally have answers that we've been searching for.
- While investigators can tie neuman to the murder weapon,
The question remains, why would a corporate scientist
Assassinate a prominent businessman in broad daylight
In front of dozens of witnesses?
- We've got hemy neuman, but we have to explain the motive.
Why would he have wanted to kill rusty sneiderman?
So we have to exhaust our efforts in that direction.
- Obviously, we want to look more in depth
Into the relationship between andrea and hemy.
When we first spoke to her, she really talked
Kind of in passing about, you know,
Her boss making a pass at her.
No big deal.
She, you know, blew him off.
But when we started examining their phone records,
We found that that was not the case.
The picture starts emerging
That they had a much closer relationship
And a much more cozy relationship
Than andrea had ever let on.
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- We tracked down a witness that provided us
With the statement that there was
Definitely a sexual tension
That she picked up on between the two.
- There was constant interaction between them
On their personal phone.
- At this point in the investigation,
We know that andrea wasn't totally truthful with us.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- Investigators have arrested ge executive hemy neuman
For the shooting death of atlanta businessman
Rusty sneiderman.
Neuman was the boss of rusty's wife, andrea.
And the team has just discovered hundreds
Of intimate text messages
Proving their relationship was more than just professional.
- We tried to figure out, why in the world
Would hemy kill andrea's husband?
And we started looking at the work.
We knew she took business trips.
And things just started adding up.
We'd send people out to this location and that location
To talk to the people.
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- We tracked down a witness that saw them at a restaurant.
She provided us with the statement
That there was definitely a sexual tension
That she picked up on between the two.
There was no doubt a relationship--
An intimate relationship
Between hemy neuman and andrea sneiderman.
- Even more shocking is what investigators discover
After digging deeper into hemy's phone records.
- There was constant interaction between them
On their personal phone.
This all stopped the day of the homicide.
Found it very odd and suspicious
To have that much contact with someone
In a work relationship
And stop the day of her husband's homicide.
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- He has now removed rusty
So that he can move in and live happily ever after
With andrea sneiderman.
- At this point in the investigation,
We know that andrea wasn't totally truthful with us.
♪ ♪
We don't know, did she do this because she played some part
In the actual murder of her husband,
Or was she just embarrassed
Or did not want to let people know about the affair?
♪ ♪
- Investigators believe they have proof of andrea's affair
But nothing concrete linking her to her husband's murder.
The team brings her in for a formal interview.
But soon after arriving, andrea abruptly leaves.
- We attempted to get her to talk to us
But were unsuccessful.
I think if you're someone who has information that can help
Solve the murder of your husband,
You would want to tell the police
And provide that information to them.
But the fact that her boss was arrested,
I guess there was information she didn't want to tell us.
- With andrea no longer cooperating
With law enforcement, prosecutors will have to wait
Until hemy neuman's trial
Before they can interview her again.
In February 2012...
- Deputy moore, bring in the jury.
- Nearly a year and a half
After rusty sneiderman was gunned down in cold blood,
The trial gets underway.
- It was a media frenzy, you know, such a brazen crime
And such a, you know, seemingly senseless crime.
- With a packed courtroom, the defense team opens
With a startling admission.
Hemy neuman pulled the trigger.
[gunshots]
But at the time of the shooting, he was insane.
- The defense was trying to prove that he was not
In his right mind, that he had been
Influenced by andrea to do it.
He was obsessed with her. He was in love with her.
And this obsession drove him to kill rusty.
[camera shutter snapping]
- I just laughed.
This is over the top.
That's all I can say.
He knew what he was doing. He knew why he was doing it.
He hadn't objected.
He had a mission.
He worked out the mission plan, and he executed the mission.
Period.
- The defense never calls hemy to the stand.
But in a surprising twist, the prosecution
Calls andrea to testify,
With some probing questions.
- She kind of dressed the part of the grieving widow,
I'd say.
And I think that's what she thought she was gonna
Be doing, portraying, you know,
Answering questions about rusty.
- Were you and the defendant romantically involved?
- No.
- Even though it's hemy's murder trial,
It becomes clear andrea is under the microscope.
- What's fascinating about it is,
This is the murder trial of hemy neuman,
But the prosecution's already laying the groundwork
For a murder case against rusty sneiderman's wife.
- Prosecution were looking forward
To possible charges against andrea.
And by putting her on the stand as they did,
They were able to lock her into her story
About what happened and her relationship with hemy.
- They had constant communication.
There were times when it wasn't really appropriate.
- She is confronted with these very difficult questions
About her emails and her relationship with hemy
And becomes very defensive and very angry.
- But you still used the word "romantic."
- He used the word romantic.
- You stated, romantic for sure.
- Ok, I used the word "romantic."
- The prosecution thinks that andrea primed the pump
And encouraged him to kill her husband.
[gunshot]
And that really took the trial in an interesting place
Because we knew now that there was two people
That were being looked at, not just hemy neuman.
- Andrea maintains when hemy neuman crossed the line,
She did everything she could to discourage her boss,
But nothing seemed to work.
- Every time he expressed
His feelings for me, it was--
I treated it as very insignificant
Or tried to downplay it
As much as I could.
- In my opinion, I think she liked the attention
From hemy neuman.
Did she want her husband killed?
I don't know.
But did she want out of the marriage?
It seems that way.
- Don geary's line of questioning during the trial,
He was trying to pin her in a corner with a story
And then come back and charge her separately.
- As both the defense and prosecution wrap up
Their cases, the only question for jurors
Is whether hemy neuman was in his right mind
When he killed rusty sneiderman.
[gunshots]
But prosecutors must also consider if the stage has been
Adequately set for another trial
For the death of rusty sneiderman:
One for his wife, andrea.
- In my opinion, she is a puppet master.
She had people do things without realizing
What they were doing or why they were doing them.
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- Hemy neuman has admitted he killed
36-year-old atlanta father rusty sneiderman
Outside his son's preschool,
But he claims he's not guilty by reason of insanity.
After deliberating for three days,
Jurors have reached their decision.
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- He received life without the possibility of parole
And will not be getting out of jail anytime soon.
- We got him. It's a victory.
We did the work that we needed to do.
We found who was responsible for rusty sneiderman's death.
- I believe someday, mr. Neuman's gonna have
A reckoning with himself.
He's gonna look in the mirror,
And he's gonna realize who's looking back at him.
- We got a statement from
Andrea sneiderman's attorney.
They say on her behalf that she is
Grateful and relieved by the verdict and the sentence.
She believes justice has been served,
But nothing will bring rusty back.
- Shortly after hemy neuman is convicted,
Authorities set their sights on andrea sneiderman,
Neuman's alleged girlfriend.
- The concept that hemy neuman just randomly said,
Well, let me go kill my coworker's husband
And see what happens,
There was nothing in his history
That showed any of that.
- On August 2, 2012, nearly two years
After rusty sneiderman was shot
Outside his child's school,
Andrea is arrested and charged with her husband's murder.
- Andrea was indicted by the da's office for malice murder
And a bunch of charges related to the death of her husband.
- When all of this news came out,
I was completely surprised.
It's hard to say with respect to andrea's knowledge
Whether or not she had some involvement.
Like so many of rusty's friends,
I watched in bewilderment.
- The widow is also charged with lying under oath
About her affair during hemy neuman's trial
And hindering a police investigation.
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- I think, like, her actions, her lying to us,
Sending us on these wild-goose chases,
I think that proved guilt on her end.
I think that spoke volumes of her
Knowing a lot more than what she ever provided us.
- Andrea pleads not guilty to all charges
And vehemently denies she had anything to do
With her husband's death.
- The Friday before andrea sneiderman's
Trial for murder is to begin,
And we get this bombshell announcement
From dekalb district attorney robert james,
Who had prosecuted the first case,
That he was dropping the murder charges.
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- We didn't have any evidence that she was ever involved
In the direct murder of rusty.
I know phone calls.
I can tell you how long they were.
Can't tell you what was said.
I can't tell you if she counseled him.
I can't tell you if she told him what to do.
I have no evidence that says that happened or didn't happen.
- It's extremely frustrating
When those charges are dropped.
We thought that at some point,
Hemy would provide more information and motive
And identify her as a party to it,
But he never did.
- While prosecutors drop the murder charges,
Andrea still stands trial in August of 2013
For lying under oath
And hindering a police investigation.
If convicted, andrea sneiderman
Could be sentenced to ten years in prison.
After eight days of testimony,
Her fate is in the jury's hands.
- Andrea was found guilty of perjury
For statements she made in the previous hemy neuman trial
When she was under oath
And then, of course, misleading statements to the police
And obstructing our investigation.
- Before the judge pronounces the sentence,
Andrea sneiderman makes an emotional plea.
- Your honor, I'm here to ask
For your leniency.
I want to go back to the life I had with rusty.
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- She was sentenced to five years in jail,
Was given some time served under house arrest.
But she ended up serving 22 months in jail.
- With andrea forever remembered
For her affair with rusty's shooter
And hemy neuman serving a life sentence for the murder,
The dunwoody community is forever changed.
- I still feel, after the case,
That we were able to serve justice.
- It's not the justice that we would have preferred,
But it's--
It's a justice.
- Rusty went out of his way to do good things
For his community, for his synagogue,
For his family, for his friends.
And, you know, if the world were full
Of rusty sneidermans, we would have
A much, much better world.
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