would collect $2 million in life insurance after rusty s death. but would that really compensate her for rusty s lifetime of earnings? was murder the only way out of a marriage that maybe was not as solid as friends thought? but a close friend says that andrea was a victim in the courtroom. she s caught in the middle of this cross fire between hemy and the prosecutors. and it is really unfortunate. jeffrey moss, who first knew andrea as rusty s college girlfriend and then watched them start a life together and a family, does not believe andrea had anything to do with the murder. it goes against everything i know about andrea, her morals, behavior, and personality. during closing arguments, the focus was on andrea sneiderman yet again. had she manipulated the mentally unstable hemy newman in to killing her husband as the defense contended? the gun in this case was in hemy s hand. but the trigger, i respectively sugges, t was pulled by andrea
needed to do to accomplish that goal. far from being crazy, the prosecutor said, he tried to plan the perfect murder. just five months after hiring rusty s wife, hemy, the prosecutor said, starting researching guns and gun shows on the internet. around halloween of 2010, hemy newman made his purchase. he told me it was just for protection, household protection. newman bought a 40 caliber handgun, along with 50 hollow point bullets, for $375 cash from this man. the transaction took place in a parking lot. he seemed like he didn t know much about guns. but he was interested in learning. within days, newman was at a gun range, blasting for 40 minutes at a manned shape target. nine days later, he put on a disguise and crept into the sneiderman s yard. rusty had dialed 9-1-1. i think he has a gun in his back pocket.
that hemy newman, a middle manager supervisor at general electric s division in georgia. at ge, he was in charge of a multi million dollar budget with thousands of employees. including his hire in april of 2010, andrea sneiderman. police asked newman to come down to the station for an interview. turned into a five and a half hour interrogation. hemy newman appeared nervous and told interviewers repeatedly that he had been outworked the day of the shooting. i did not pull the trigger. but the cops sweated him. i m telling you, you were there when rusty got shot. a few hours into the interview, it looked as though hemy might have something to tell police. tell me why. but then he shut down. even so, detectives thought
a great, great execution. once the plan is in place, it s going to happen. but amid all of the expert witness testimony over several days debating his mental health, a hypothetical question posed by the prosecution caught the most attention. if there was evidence that this is in fact a plan by andrea and the defendant to get rid of rusty so they can be together, then everything he told you would be wrong and he would be wrong, wouldn t it? if i knew they had corroborated together, yes, that would change my opinion. this was the first time in hemy newman s trial that a direct reference was made to a potential plot between the shooter and the victim s widow. what did andrea sneiderman know, and when? coming up we the jury jurors render their verdict. but one question still lingers, is this case closed? when dateline continues.
defense attorney bob truman. mr. newman s problems really began years ago. they went undiagnosed over the course of his lifetime. and as a result, he got progressively worse. the defense made a bold allegation to the jury that hemy s violent act against rusty was triggered by none other than rusty s wife, andrea. she had planted the seed. she had stoked 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 hemy over the edge. and if the defense team could prove that hemy newman was not guilty by reason of insanity, 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.