empty ache remain, as he and so many in the family, as if climbing those montana mountains, tried to keep putting one foot in front of the other. >> it is a dance between the grief of their loss to the joy and blessing of having experienced them. >> it is like seeing a meteor. you wouldn't curse your luck that you saw this meteor, just be thankful you were blessed to see it. so we just have to cling to that, like, wow. how amazing that we got to spend a good part of our life with two of the most precious people on the planet. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. >> hello, i'm craig melvin and hello, i'm craig melvin, and this is "dateline." this is dateline.

>> he had deeper feelings for me than just 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 the accused of the crime, so why is 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 she cheating with her executive boss? >> "be 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 was no affair. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to dateline. he was a young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world, but someone wanted him dead. at 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, wife, and a boss. here's dennis murphy. >> broad daylight, morning in a busy parking lot, then pop, pop, pop,. >> several shots fired. >> a man gunned down at close range outside a nursery school in atlanta. a silver mini van screeched

from the law. witnesses saw the victim slaughtered 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 two-year-old son. a preschool, of all places, had become a crime scene. >> we are told the children are safe. >> the shooting victim turned out to be 36-year-old rusty snyderman, 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 was dead. >> i was walking around on the plane, pacing around the aisles. i went to the bathroom and looked at the door and i thought about jumping. >> he was desperate to get home to his family, desperate to find out what had happened to his little brother. >> my brother was murdered. no one should have to face that. >> he appeared at a police press conference after the shooting to talk about the family's incomparable loss. >> our whole family has lost its brightest light and we don't know why.

>> that was the question, why rusty? his friend laura hester. >> did any of it makes sense, were you able to come up with a theory of what happened? >> no i mean this was a man who is so beloved by so many people. >> jeffrey moss lived across the whole forest in college. >> always had a giant smile on his face no out of the situation. he used to and every conversation with how can i help you, what can i do for you? >> in the tight-knit jewish community where rusty lived, a man like him is called a mensch, a stand up guy. now that very supportive community gather on his wife of ten years. >> they've been together since college, he always spoke about her with great affection and respect. >> the couple had moved to a suburb of atlanta after rusty accepted a job at a software

company. >> they had a summer house at the lake, a boat, two great kids 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 esther paddock. >> it put a lot of fuel into a lot of people, to the whole community. the fleeting thought, was it a hate crime, was the gunman targeting jews? the other minor speculation had to do with rusty's work. he once handled money, major amounts of money for some high net worth individuals. had an investment portfolio gone horribly wrong? >> here's a guy dealing with serious amount of money. the initial thought was that it

was a professional hit by someone who lost a lot of money.. >> if so, was it someone that does what he circle knew well, maybe even a mourner certainly at the memorial service for rusty sharing his condolences the widow? josh golub, an old college roommate wondered just that. >> i remember looking around and remember thinking to myself that the killer could be there. >> you had that thought? >> yeah. >> what made rusty such a successful businessman was his vast network of friends and associates to make deals made it all the more difficult for a homicide handcuffs to single out that one person who could have such rage about rusty snyderman. he knew a lot of people. >> he was an excellent network or he was constantly expanding his business and personal goals >> but detectives caught a break. some of the witnesses were able to give the cops a description of the killer and his vehicle. >> a possible white male with a beard. 5 foot 10 or 11, in his 30s. >> police department sketch artist was able to render this

portrait. a face with a dark beard, no mustache, and most arresting of all, two piercing eyes. the witnesses -- >> come forward and face justice. don't be a coward. >> who was the man in the sketch? >> the hunt begins with one giant clue, the getaway car, caught on tape. are police close to catching the killer? >> coming up. when dateline continues. ♪work well together every time♪ ♪burnt on stains, get outshined♪ ♪♪

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rusty sneiderman had been gunned down outside his son's preschool. now, with an artist's sketch and a description of a minivan, police went to work to track down his killer. gunned down outside of his sons preschool. now, with an artist sketch in description of a mini van -- , police went to work to track down his killer. here again is dennis murphy. >> the shooter was no more than a police artist rendering. no details filled in. but his victim was quite different. there was a very complete picture of 36-year-old rusty sneiderman, the loving husband, father, brother and son who had grown outside of cleveland. his mother and father marilyn and don-- >> in your happiest memory, what do you see rusty doing? >> smiling, making you happy and life. he was wonderful to be around. >> good kid, he really was.

>> but behind the wide grin and nice guy demeanor, was a determined and ambitious businessman. rusty had spent time in the corporate world but was now itching to go the jobs route. rusty's wife andrea out more than anybody understood. she backed rusty when he wanted to focus on a start-up. >> they were really partners in every way shape and form. whether it was in life, whether it was through business ventures. i think that they both were able to treat each other in a way that made each other better. >> and their marriage had seemed solid to people who had known them, which is why details that came out later surprised everyone. for now, rusty's grief stricken friends and family wanted answers. answers that seemed to be taking a long time in coming. robert james was the dekalb county district attorney. >> no one had any idea who did this when it happened. >> for weeks after rusty's death, police had been floundering trying to untangle rusty's business relationships. suspicious that he had been gunned down by a professional

hitmen, they were looking for a money trail to lead them to his killer. >> chasing the money trail, did it cost you a lot of investigative hours and time? >> it cost us thousands of investigative hours and time. >> as it turned out, the crime would not be solved by following the money. it would be solved by following the shooter's mini van, a vehicle that had been caught on the parking lot's security cameras. weeks after rusty had been shot, investigators tracked the van to this rental agency and then contacted the man who had rented it the day before the shooting. his identity would blow the investigation wide open. >> the man told them not only that yes, he was the person who rented the mini van. what's more, he said that he was andrea sneiderman's boss, rusty's widow work for this guy. we'll see the person in the police artist sketch? did andrea sneiderman's supervisor from work kill her husband? >> the boss was a man named

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

they had enough evidence linking him to the crime. they arrested him and charged him with murder. then, an amazing turn of events. after his steadfast denials, the engineer admitted that yes, he was the shooter. but he said that he was not guilty of the crime because he had been insane when he pulled the trigger. a little more than a year after his arrest, hemy newman's trial for murder began. the prosecutor argued that his insanity plea was preposterous. the case against him was a simple one of lust and greed, the prosecutor argued during the three-week trial. newman had just won a prize in his sights. rusty's wife. >> hemy newman killed rusty snyder. because he wanted his wife. because he wanted his money. because he wanted his life. period -- >> according to the prosecutor, the evidence would show that hemy knew exactly what he

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.

>> was this a practice run or an aborted murder attempt? newman 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 diguise. and then, the prosecutors asserted, the final countdown to murder began. 2:30 in the afternoon of november 17th, newman rented a silver kia mini van. the desk clark remembered him. >> he was in a hurry. he was very impatient. >> just after 5:30 in the morning on november 18th, a security camera recorded the silver mini van pulling into the parking garage on the ge campus. the camera then caught newman walking up the stairs. he was headed to his office, where he logged onto his computer and left his cell phone on the desk. was he trying to create an alibi? next, hemy newman got back into his car. he was on the move. a few hours later, surveillance video across town picked up his trail, driving into the parking

lot of the suburban atlanta preschool where rusty sneiderman was scheduled to drop off of his son. >> coming up -- the widow takes the stand. >> he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. >> andrea sneiderman under scrutiny, when dateline continues. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. rsv can be serious for those over 60, including those with asthma, diabetes, copd, and certain other conditions. but i'm protected. arexvy is proven to be over 82% effective in preventing lower respiratory disease from rsv and over 94% effective in those with these health conditions. arexvy does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients. those with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects are injection site pain,

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newman confessed to shooting rusty sneiderman four times in broad daylight. but was he acting alone? here again is dennis murphy. >> day after day in court, marilyn and don sneiderman sat just feet from the man who had a slain their son, the one who had so stolen away their family's peace. >> 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. >> and he shoots him three times. as rusty falls in the parking

lot that cold november night dying, the defendant is not satisfied. he walks up and puts that 40 caliber hollow point to rusty's neck, to his jugular, and fires one last time. >> this is a brazen, outrageous crime. >> it was broad daylight, brazen, reckless abandon. rusty sneiderman was shot perhaps about 30 feet from where children or playing. >> a husband and wife testified that they came running when they heard the sound. >> i went up to the victim, that is when i noticed he was bleeding out. >> i saw him gasping for air. i wish i had started cpr right there. we were just in so much shock. ok >> rusty had been best man at josh golub's wedding. the radiologist said that he thought it hard to hear testimony about the medical

details of his friend's last moments. >> it was the fourth and final shot. that is the one that went through his neck, through his spine, to his spinal cord. and not only paralyzed him but -- >> he was dead at that moment? >> yeah. that is one of the hardest things for me to see. >> after delivering the kill shot, witnesses testified that newman calmly walked back to his mini van and melted into morning traffic. within hours, he was back at his desk, observed juggling routine meetings. what did he expect to happen next? the prosecution had explained how the murder had been plotted out, but now they wanted the jury to understand why. rusty was the last person standing between hemy newman and the woman he loved, andrea sneiderman. >> on november 15th, 2010, did you know the defendant? >> yes. >> and she offered to juicy testimony for the jury to ponder. she testified that the accused, hemy newman, had become obsessed with her weeks after

she had a starting working for him in april of 2010. that he had to begun stalk her and her family and finally, gunned down her husband. the unwelcome courtship began at ge about six months before the shooting. >> how much time would you spend with him on a regular basis? >> there were meetings every other day, constantly communications about work and projects. constant phone calls. we spoke about work things, constantly. >> hemy newman quickly became a fixture in her life. >> extremely friendly individual, caring, or pretending to be a very caring individual. >> but one night, during a business trip to lake tahoe she testified, hemy newman stepped over the line. >> did the defendant ever express his feelings? >> yes. outside of a restaurant, before they had dinner together, he read her a poem. >> the insinuation of the poem

to me was that he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. >> andrea says her boss confided in her that he was unhappy in his marriage and was thinking of moving out on his wife of 22 years. but rusty sneiderman's wife said that she made her position clear. >> none of those feelings were ever returned. and i made myself clear where i stood. >> hemy got the message, at least for a while. and when hemy was not being inappropriate, she said he was a good friend. >> i admit to caring about hemy newman. he managed to get me to care about him. and that is actually the point. he was very good at that, very good at manipulating everyone around him to feel bad for him. >> with rusty launching a company from the ground up, andrea said she felt she had to hold down her steady paycheck. she told the jury that she walked the tightrope the best she could. >> given the situation that i was in and that he was my boss, i handled them all with care and did the best i could to

keep him at bay. >> did you ever report the defendant's contact to anybody at ge? >> no. >> why not? >> i would have been fired. >> i would have been fired. >> andrea had kept the advances to herself for the good of her family she told the court. but now the prosecutor wondered this. the police artist sketch released days after the shooting bore a striking resemblance to her boss. why hadn't she demanded police focus their investigation on jaime? what was she hiding? >> coming up, some pointed questions for the widow. >> did you wake up together in denver and tahoe? >> no. >> was there an affair? >> were they groping each other. >> did you see the parties kiss?

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with a look at the hour's top stories. on sunday, the ntsb opened their investigation into friday's alaska airlines flight, in which part of the plane detached while midair. the incident resulted in the grounding of all boeing 737 max planes by the faa. much of the northeastern u.s. is still digging out -- first major snowfall of the season. some areas saw as much as a foot of snow over the weekend. another round of winter weather is expected for the region on tuesday. now, back to dateline. >> welcome back to dateline, i'm craig melvin. rusty sneiderman's wife andrea took the stand in her boss ' murder trial. prosecutors had some tough questions for her. here again is dennis murphy. >> he pretended to be my friend, and i was doing the best that i can to deal with the situation. and he had my whole life wrapped up. >> jurors had heard a harrowing

tale from rusty sneiderman's widow of a monster of a boss who became obsessed with his new hire, andrea. but now the prosecution was suggesting the toxic triangle among boss and employee and husband was even more complicated than it seemed. and that the wife andrea was holding back important to tails of her story. >> prosecutor don gere -- >> there was a kind of watergate question, what did you know, when did you know it? >> we went, and we knew she was lying. we told her that we knew she was lying. and that did not seem to affect her. so we knew what we had to do on the stand. we simply did it. >> in court, hemy newman was the accused. but at times, it looks like andrea was on trial too. the prosecution suggested andrea had been a willing partner, not only in the relationship, but possibly in the murder itself.

hemy could not be insane if the prosecutor said if he had been conspiring to kill rusty. >> speak about it, the with me forever. would that be normal communication between your boss and you? >> the victim's widow was aggressively questioned about the business trips with her boss that looked like a series of trips and hotels rooms within here and abroad. a week after the trip to lake tahoe when hemy read andrea a love poem, he joined her in longmont, colorado. >> did you pick the defendant up at the airport? >> did you take him back to longmont with you? >> did you and the defendant share a room at longmont? >> no. >> she denied that they spent the night together in colorado, but workers at the hotel remembered a change of rooms. >> our records do show that andrea sneiderman during her stay switched from a room of two beds and one person to a room with one bed and two people. >> a month later, in august, something happened on a trip that they took together to south carolina, something that

andrea felt that she had to repent for. she read aloud in court what she had wrote hemy in an email. >> your apology is heartfelt, but does not make the ongoing pain go away i now have. >> what happened? >> we were holding each other's hands, and that is it. it may sound worse than it is, but to me, that was a betrayal. >> so you are repenting, in the email at least, from holding his hand? >> yes. >> but the work trips together continued and the emotionally charged emails intensified. hemy wrote her words like marry me, i love you, and this. >> betrayal of anger is not about what -- it is about how you felt, what you wanted. how you felt when we looked at the stars in tahoe when we woke up friday morning in denver. when you took my hand and nestled your head on my shoulder.

did that happen? >> did what happen? >> did you wake up together in denver and tahoe? >> no. >> and hemy might not have known, it but during this time, hemy, like a teenager, was confiding in a real estate agent friend named melanie white. >> you get an email from her, would be so excited because it a smiley face at the end of at. the friend testified that hemy she shared with her all of the message she had received from andrea. to melanie's eyes, andrea was not pushing hemy away at all. >> what i saw is that andrea wanted hemy and would lead him on, going out of town with him, holding hands with him, and eventually from what i am told from we hemy, actually having sex with him. >> on the stand, andrea was adamant that a trip she and hemy took to england was strictly business. even though itinerary included plans to see a play and hit a nightclub.

>> we did not go to a dance club, in fact, we did not do any of the things that are insinuated we did on the itinerary. >> but jurors heard evidence that andrea and hemy did go dancing on their last trip together in greensville, south carolina, a month before that rusty sidner was killed. the barmaid at the dance club testified that she saw public displays of affection that would have justified the taunt of get a room. >> he kept spinning her around. they were groping each other. >> did you see the parties kiss? >> yes i did. >> how many times did them kiss? >> i would say about three times. >> did you see the female push the male away? >> no. on one occasion, she actually kissed him. >> andrea denied the barmaid's account. >> did you kiss him, did he kiss you? >> no. >> in this, case when you are talking about it alleged affairs and someone else's husband being murdered, i think that people tend to think that

they saw a lot of things. >> andrea denied all of the innuendo, sharing rooms, groping one another on the dance floor. she said that she never had sex with hemy newman. a claim she repeated when her best friend shayna citron confronted her about hemy after rusty's 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 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 interested. however she loved her husband and was not interested. >> that statement echoed something that hemy had told his friend. >> what did he tell you about the london trip? >> 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 never leave her

husband. that was the message rusty sneiderman's wife was sending the defense. and the defense promised to prove to the jury that the inter turmoil that these mixed signals stirred up in hemy newman was enough to push this mild mannered but troubled man over the edge and into the realm of legal insanity. >> coming up -- >> i had been kicked, i've been slapped, i've been whipped. and those things you do not forget. >> haunting secrets from hemy's past. and a question -- did celebrity voices drive him to kill? when dateline continues. so you're always ready for the unexpected. cetaphil. we do skin. you do you. (smelling) ew. gotta get rid of this. ♪tell me why♪ because it stinks. ♪have you tried downy rinse and refresh♪ it helps remove odors 3x better than detergent alone. it worked guys! ♪yeahhhh♪ downy rinse and refresh.

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whose boss kills someone else's husband? an i don't care-- affair, no affair-- there was no affair. who kills someone else's husband? else's husband? i don't care, there was no affair. who kills someone else's husband? meone else's husband? >> hemy newman was a killer. that is what the prosecutor told the jury. that is what is alleged mistress told the jury. even hemy newman himself said he did it, a police detective testified. >> he admits to the shooting, correct? >> yes. >> but the defense attorney says their client should not go to prison because the 48-year-old engineer, outwardly so calm and rational, had one more secret to confess. he had been tormented by demons since he was a boy.

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.

she painted a picture for the jury of his 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 explain their father, a violent and alcoholic man, had beaten both children savagely. >> i've been kicked, i've been slapped, i've been whipped. and those things, you do not forget. >> monique said that hemy took the worst of the beatings. >> my brother went and got a bowl of ice cream, and before we knew it, the bowl of ice cream went flying. hemy was getting slapped. and it just kept going and going and going. >> but it was at boarding school that hemy experienced his first delusion, this defense expert testified, a demon. >> 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, hemy newman had a history of breakdowns. and he was teetering on the edge of having another one, according to his defense. hemy's fascination with andrea began as a fantasy, according to the defense's mental health experts, something to help him escape his troubled life. but they say that the workplace infatuation soon became something much darker. >> hemy's confidant testified that it looked to her as though andrea would wind hemy, 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 soulmates 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 hemy was having. and, said the defense, saying that in this altered state, he would listen to andrea complain about rusty. how the children were turning away from him. >> their conversations 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, as he described in this jailhouse interview. >> when you say big, how big? >> not as high as the ceiling but almost. towering over me. >> he said this time, the delusion took a surprising form. a demon appeared before him and he sounded like barry white.

>> when he comes, i think he is real. >> he also says he think he saw an angel who sounded like olivia newton john. the angel's message? it was as out there as the vision itself. according to hemy newman, the angel assigned him a deadly mission. andrea's children, the angel told him, were at risk from rusty sneiderman. and was his duty to kill rusty to eliminate the threat. >> he thought he was doing the right thing, because he thought he was saving the children from the same kind of trauma that he had. >> but the prosecution painted a very different picture of him. >> you are saying he's faking, he's running a number. >> without question. he was probably the smartest person in that courtroom. >> the prosecutor told the jury that hemy had lied about his hallucinations to get away with murder. and that the defense experts had fallen for it. >> if he lied to you about that

delusion, than everything in your report is off the table? you are wrong? >> that is correct. >> the prosecutor called a parade of witnesses to the stand, his 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 he thought he was hallucinating? >> no. >> according to the prosecution 's 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 evidence somewhere of a marked impairment. >> nor would somebody so unstable have been able to methodically plot out not only the crime, but the covering of his tracks, as hemy did. >> this was just another project for him. >> i've got a problem, i'm going to approach is like an engineer, how do i resolve the problem? >> he mathematically solved his problem. >> during the jailhouse interview, hemy explained to the prosecution psychiatrist.

>> 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.

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join don geary: andreaeople sneiderman is playing each and every one of us for a fool. playing each and every one of us for a fool. >> investigators had harbored doubts about the grieving widow as soon as they had their suspect. pushing hemy newman during his interrogation to see if she

would give him up as her accomplice. >> i think it is beyond you. conclude somebody else. >> the idea that andrea sneiderman was not just a passive bystander to her husband's shooting, but that she had been in on it was a theory pushed hard by both the prosecution and the defense. >> i was crying a lot, i was balling. >> an eyewitness testified that even after rusty's body was whisked way in an ambulance, she, a perfect stranger, was weeping at the scene. >> the wife and she arrived, not so much. >> she didn't have like a tear in her eye. i told the detective that as well. >> andrea had testified that when she arrived at the scene that morning, she had been told only that rusty had been involved in an accident, not that he had been shot. >> i didn't know what happened to rusty until i got to the emergency room. >> but listen to what both her father-in-law and her friend said andrea told them before she got to the hospital. >> andrea called us and she called and said rusty had been shot. she was so sorry. >> she immediately at the same time was screaming to me that 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 that something had happened to rusty, andrea had dialed and redialed her boss. her husband who she had believed was involved in an accident? >> how many times did you call rusty? >> zero times. >> and a demeanor issue for the widow, the jurors heard a tape of andrea being told six weeks after her husband was shot that police had made an arrest. >> are you serious? >> did andrea know beforehand who the shooter was? according to a friend, andrea had confided in her that she thought hemy newman resembled the police sketch. if she had any suspicion hemy was involved, why hadn't she told police? >> she kept seeing hemy's face

in those sketches. is that correct? >> not the face, it was the eyes is what she said. >> and those drawings, were published certainly no more than two days after rusty was shot, is that correct? >> i guess so. >> andrea hugged her best friend as she got off of the stand. once the two women were in the hallway, out of the view of the cameras and the jurors, andrea reportedly threatened her. the best friend's lawyer says that he overheard the confrontation. >> andrea tells her i understand you did what you did but now you are going to have to live with what i am going to do. >> the trial judge banned andrea sneiderman from the courthouse for the remainder of the trial. but what motive could andrea sneiderman possibly have had for any of this? investigators learned that she

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

sneiderman. >> if he and andrea -- as the prosecution argued, was newman trying to hide behind the fabricated mental illness to avoid answering a concocted murder plot, that he concocted with his lover? >> which one is more likely? that he sees this imaginary being? , or was it the woman who stood to gain $2 million. and he did to. he is not crazy, he is coconspirator. >> on the third day of deliberations, the jury announced it had a verdict. andrea was not in the courtroom to hear it. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill. >> the jury foreperson told dateline the jurors believed he was mentally ill, but nonetheless should go to prison. >> we were all very passionate that we were not going to be comfortable with hemy newman thinking he could actually walk. >> was there a discussion of

where is andrea sneiderman, why are we not talking about her? >> for us, it was still this is not about andrea sneiderman. if there was an affair, that is between andrea sneiderman and hemy newman. >> before imposing sentence, the judge heard from rusty's killer. hemy newman's statement was brief. >> i am so, so sorry. i'm sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor. >> and then, it was over for the disgraced business executive. newman was led away after the judge sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison. and in a written statement issued after the verdict, andrea sneiderman said she was grateful to the jurors and felt that justice had finally been done for rusty. but the prosecution was not finished. in 2012, andrea sneiderman was charged in the murder of her husband, rusty.

those charges were dropped. then in august of 2013, sneiderman faced new charges and was found guilty of perjury and hindering the apprehension of a killer. in 2014, sneiderman was released from prison and completed her parole three years later. and in 2015, a break for hemy newman, or was it? the georgia supreme court threw out his conviction, saying the trial court erred in admitting evidence protected by attorney client privilege. but in a 2016 retrial, a jury found that hemy newman was guilty once again, and this time his guilt was unqualified. hemy, the jurors decided, was not mentally ill at the time of the crime. he was sentenced to life without parole plus five years. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. tom foley: the first time i saw her, i thought she was beautiful. we just loved being together.