When the jurors in the Hemy Neuman murder trial return to work on Tuesday, they'll see the final minutes of the police interrogation of the accused Dunwoody day care killer.
The videotape of the 5 1/2 hour interview was shown for the jury on Monday, but technical difficulties halted the viewing with about seven minutes to go.
During the questioning, police grill Neuman about his whereabouts on the morning of November 18, 2010, when Rusty Sneiderman was gunned down outside of Dunwoody Prep. Neuman claims he was at work at General Electric, and only left to return a rented van.
It was that van that was used as the getaway vehicle in the murder. During the questioning, one investigator tells Neuman, "Hemy, we've got video of that van and the more I look at you,the more I see the guy driving that van."
Also during the interrogation, police ask Nejman about his relationship with Andrea Sneiderman, at one point even trying to get Neuman to flip on her and name her as a party to the murder. Throughout, however, he refuses to implicate either himself or her,
Also onTuesday, agents from the FBI will be called to testify against Neuman, who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Week two of the Dunwoody day care murder trial got underway Monday. Former DeKalb assistant medical examiner Dr. Steven Dunton testified how Rusty Sneiderman was shot four times, resulting in five wounds, including a grazing wound to his arm. Dunton, who performed the autopsy on Sneiderman, testified the first shot was to Sneiderman's neck, just below the jaw, and was a contact range wound.
The jury then watched a five hour video of the interview Dunwoody police conducted with Neuman on the morning of his arrest.
Week one ended with more testimony portraying Andrea Sneiderman as cold and unemotional the morning of her husband's murder.
Dunwoody Police Detective Jesus Maldonado was at Dunwoody Prep moments after Rusty Sneiderman was gunned down. Andrea Sneidman arrived 15-to-20 minutes later. Maldonado testified on Friday that he met her at the crime scene tape and did not tell her about the shooting when she asked what happened.
He says he met her to calm her down, but she was not crying. "No tears," says Maldonado. He also noted she never asked to see her husband.
Dr. Mark Waterman was working at the emergency room at Atlanta Medical Center when Rusty Sneideman arrived. Sneiderman was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.
Waterman then met with the family in a separate room at the hospital and told Andrea that her husband had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died.
DA: "How did she react."
Waterman: "there was no crying, no hysterics. She seemed very unemotional. It was very unusual, to say the least."
Friday testimony in the Hemy Neuman murder trial is focusing on the morning of the killing. The victim's widow, Andrea Sneiderman, was once again in the spotlight.
Aliyah Stotter was at the Dunwoody post office with her husband when they heard the shots. They ran to Dunwoody Prep and found Rusty Sneiderman on his left side, bleeding heavily and gasping for air.
Stotter was still at the school when Andrea Sneiderman arrived. According to Stotter, she got out of her vehicle screaming, "What happened?"
Stotter testified that later she told her husband, "It's really weird that she didn't have a tear in her eye. I told the detectives that, as well."
Andrea Sneiderman has also been banned from the DeKalb County Courthouse. Assistant District Attorney Don Geary made that request of Judge Gregory Adams, citing several incidents.
Geary says following Thursday's testimony from a former friend of Sneiderman, Shayna Citron, Sneiderman hugged and kissed her in the courtroom in the presence of the jury. In fact, she pushed a guard out of the way in order to reach Citron.
Afterwards, outside of the courthouse, she approached Citron to tell her, "Since you don't believe me, we're not friends anymore."
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Sneiderman then returned to the courthouse and attempted to enter the witness waiting room. Geary told her not to go in, but he says she gave him a stare and went in anyway. Geary says the witnesses who were in that room (mostly employees of General Electric, where both Sneiderman and Neuman worked) have asked that she be kept away from them.
Geary also told the judge that, during testimony, Sneiderman has been sitting in the courtroom saying, "That's not true. You're lying. You weren't there," all loud enough for Geary and his staff to hear.
Judge Adams barred Sneiderman from the courthouse until such time that she is recalled as a witness.
Sniederman, who was not in the courtroom when the judge issued his ruling, was later seen storming out of the courthouse, accompanied by her attorney and an investigator with the District Attorney's office.
In other Friday testimony, a third witness contradicted Andrea Sneiderman's claim that she did not learn of her husband's shooting until she reached the Atlanta Medical Center.
A former GE coworker of Sneiderman and Neuman, Alan Schachtely, testified that on the morning of November 18, 2010 -- the morning Rusty Sneiderman was gunned down -- Schachtely received a call from Andrea, explaining her husband had been shot and she was leaving GE.
Sneiderman restored on Tuesday that she was not told that Rusty had been shot until later that morning.
Two other witnesses, a close friend of hers and Rusty Sneiderman's father, Don, also contradicted her story.
Prosecutors spent the morning questioning former co-workers of Neuman, asking about his mental state. They all said they did not notice anything unusual in his behavior. Two people who saw Neuman a few hours after the murder said they did not notice him acting in any manner other than normal.
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