DECATUR, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Andrea Sneiderman, whose husband was allegedly shot and killed by her boss, took the stand again Wednesday in the Dunwoody daycare murder trial. Defense attorneys resumed questioning her following three hours on the stand for the prosecution Tuesday.
Prosecutors called Andrea Sneiderman as their first witness. They presented a chain of emails and phone calls between Andrea Sneiderman and Hemy Neuman that indicated the two were romantically involved.
"Did it bother you that he had feelings for you?" asked Assistant District Attorney Don Geary.
"Yes," replied Andrea Sneiderman.
"Did you ever report the defendant?" asked Geary.
"No. I would have been fired," Andrea Sneiderman answered.
Neuman was Sneiderman's boss at General Electric.
Neuman admitted to gunning down Andrea Sneiderman's husband, Rusty Sneiderman, outside Dunwoody Prep in November 2010. He reportedly donned a disguise and rented a minivan prior to the killing.
The defense noted that Andrea Sneiderman called Neuman at least a half dozen times the day she learned her husband had been killed.
Andrea Sneiderman was at one point emotional, but often testy during questioning.
"I had a feeling it was him, but there was no chance I thought I was right," testified Andrea Sneiderman when asked why she did not tell authorities she suspected Neuman was the killer. "It was unfathomable and unbelievable that it could be him, someone that proposed to care about me, care about Rusty, care about my family, be a normal guy, be my boss and he murdered my husband."
Prosecutors recounted numerous trips Sneiderman and Neuman took together and quoted a waitress in Greenville, SC, who served the two one night.
"Hemy was groping her. Hemy was handling her. She was laughing and giggling. They were kissing on the mouth. She was responding to it all," Neuman's attorney Doug Peters read a quote from the waitress in court.
Neuman's attorneys have entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. In opening statements, the defense told jurors Neuman had a troubled upbringing and a violent father.
"I will respectfully stand before you when this trial is over that based on the evidence you would return a verdict of insanity, so that Hemy will be confined in a state mental institution," Peters told the jury.
The prosecution disagreed, saying Neuman planned the murder and knew exactly what he was doing the day he shot and killed Rusty Sneiderman.
"Boil it down to one sentence," Geary told jurors. "The man wanted someone else's wife so he killed her husband."
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