Widow Denies Affair with Neuman

Hemy Neuman supervised Andrea Sneiderman at a GE Energy unit in East Cobb. 

But the widow of the man Neuman is accused of shooting to death near a Dunwoody day care center in November 2010 denied she had an extramarital affair with her boss.

Andrea Sneiderman, who testified most of Tuesday afternoon in DeKalb Superior Court, was the first witness for the prosecution, which is basing its case against Neuman on his alleged obsession over her. 

"To boil it down to a sentence, the man wanted someone else's wife," said Assistant District Attorney Don Geary during the first day of Neuman's trial. 

The start of the trial was delayed last fall when Neuman pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. 

The trial resumes at 9 a.m. Wednesday (full coverage here from Dunwoody Patch).

Russell "Rusty" Sneiderman had just dropped off his two-year-old son at the Dunwoody Prep school on the morning of Nov. 18, 2010, and according to the prosecution, Neuman was waiting for him in a rented silver minivan. 

The prosecution alleges that Neuman, wearing a bearded disguise, walked up to Russell Sneiderman and shot him several times before driving away in the minivan.

Andrea Sneiderman, who has insisted that while she and Neuman traveled together on business, and he made unwanted advances she rebuffed, they did not have an intimate relationship.

Weary of her long questioning along those lines before cross-examination began, she declared: "There was no affair!"

Court documents filed by the defense contend that she and Neuman were in "continuous communication" before and after the killing. 

In opening arguments, defense attorney Doug Peters said Neuman was so infatuated with Andrea Sneiderman that "he thought Sophia and Ian [the Sneidermans' children] were his children and that Rusty Sneiderman was a danger to them.

"This case is not about what happened. We know what happened," Peters said. "It's about why."