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Correct? youre wrong? >> that is correct. >> the prosecutor called a parade of witnesses to the stand. hemys 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 prosecutions 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 evidenc...

>> the gun in this case was in hemys 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? hes not crazy. hes a coconspirator. >> on the...

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, doesnt make the ongoing pain go away i now have. >> what happened? >> holding each others hands and thats 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 ...

Marriage and thinking of moving out on his wife of 22 careers. but rusty sneidermans 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. thats the point. very good at that, manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him. >> with rusty laun...

Sister monique who painted a picture of hemys 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. >> ive been kicked, ive been slapped, ive been whipped. and those things you dont forget. >> and monique said hemy took the worst of the beatings. >> my brother got up, went to get a bowl of ice cream, a...

>> and according to the prosecutor, evidence would show that hemy knew exactly what he needed to do to accomplish that goal. far from being crazy prosecutor said, he tried to plan the perfect murder. five months after hiring rustys wife, researching guns and gun shows on the internet and around halloween of 2010 he made the purchase. >> told me it was for protection, household protection. >> bought a 40 caliber hand gun and hollow point bullets from this man in a parking lot. >> he seemed like h...

>> defense expert dr. adriana flores says this i dont -- yo-yo affect strengthened the delusions that hemy was having and in this altered state he would listen to andrea complain about rusty, how the children were shying away from him. >> their conversation or communication was saturated with discussions of the children, saturated with andrea sneidermans complaints about her relationship with her husband. >> hemy thought something needed to be done, said his defense, especially when the demon fr...

>> when he comes i think hes real. >> he also said he saw an angel who sounded like olivia newton-john. the angels message, it was as out there as the vision itself. according to hemy neuman, the angel assigned him a deadly mission. andreas children, the angel told him, were at risk from rusty sneiderman and it was hemys duty to kill rusty to eliminate that threat. >> he thought he was doing the right thing because he thought he was saving those children from the same kind of trauma that he had....

>> jurors had heard a harrowing tale from rusty sneidermans widow of a monster of a boss obsessed with new hire andrea, stalking her and catastrophically ripping her life apart snuffing out her husbands. but now the prosecution was saying more complicated than it seemed and wife andrea was holding back important details of her story. prosecutor. >> there was watergate question, what did she know and when did she know it. >> we knew she was lying, told her and didnt affect her. knew what we had t...

>> he described the demon as much bigger than him. he said that when he felt and saw this demon, he felt anguish. deep pain. >> by the time andrea met him, he had a history of breakdowns and was teetering on the edge of having another one according to his defense. hemys fascination became a -- began as a fantasy, something to help him escape his troubled life, but the workplace infatuation soon became something much darker. hemys confidant said that it looked like andrea would wind him up, turn ...