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Dunwoody Day Care Murder: Did Wife Know About Husband’s Killing?

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022112 Hemy NeumanMugshot?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1330082242336Dunwoody Police Dept(ATLANTA) — Two witnesses in the trial of a Georgia man accused of murdering the husband of his alleged lover testified Thursday that the woman, Andrea Sneiderman, told them she knew about her husband’s death earlier than she claimed in court.

Hemy Neuman, 48, is charged with shooting and killing Sneiderman’s husband Rusty Sneiderman, 36, in the parking lot of the Sneidermans’ son’s preschool in November 2010.  Neuman, Andrea Sneiderman’s former boss at GE Energy, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Rusty Sneiderman’s father Don Sneiderman testified Thursday in an Atlanta courtroom that he received a phone call on the day of the incident from Andrea Sneiderman, his daughter-in-law, at 9:30 a.m. saying that his son had been shot.

“At 9:30, she said Rusty had been shot, she was so, so sorry and she was going to Dunwoody Prep to see what happened,” Don Sneiderman said..

He confirmed to the court that he was sure his daughter-in-law had called him at 9:30 a.m. because he had spoken to Rusty Sneiderman after he dropped his son Ian off at the preschool.  That account conflicted with Andrea Sneiderman’s testimony Wednesday, when she told the court that she first heard that her husband was shot when she arrived at the hospital at 11 a.m.

“I didn’t know what happened to Rusty until I got to the emergency room,” Sneiderman, who has denied that she had an affair with Neuman and has not been charged in connection with her husband’s death, said on Wednesday.  “No one told me what happened to Rusty.”

She said that she had called Don Sneiderman, but contrary to his testimony, she said she told him, “Something’s happened to Rusty, I have no idea what.”

Andrea Sneiderman’s close friend of 10 years, Shayna Citron, also testified on Thursday that the widow told her of her husband’s shooting before 11 a.m.  Citron said she was in Arizona with her husband and heading to a spa at about 8:30 a.m. when Andrea Sneiderman called her, which would have been 10:30 a.m. in Georgia.

“She was screaming to me that Rusty had been shot,” Citron recalled of Sneiderman’s phone call.  “She didn’t know if he was dead or alive and she was on her way to the hospital and she passed the phone to her mother.”

Neither the defense nor the prosecution denies that Neuman pulled the trigger and killed Sneiderman, but they tell divergent stories of what led to the killing.

The prosecution painted Neuman as a calculating killer who planned Sneiderman’s shooting for months — going to gun shows, taking a gun safety course, going to target practice, renting a car for the shooting and wearing a disguise.

Neuman’s defense attorney, Doug Peters, said in his opening statements that Neuman believed he had been visited by an angel resembling Olivia Newton-John and a demon resembling Barry White, who told him that Sneiderman’s children were Neuman’s and that he needed to protect them by killing Rusty Sneiderman.

Neuman’s defense claims he and Andrea Sneiderman were involved in a hot-and-cold affair when she worked for him at General Electric.  Sneiderman denies any affair.

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