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Case Closed

The Closing

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We end this case with two people behind bars and a family that must cope with grief. -- Can't wait to hear the rest of the season? Listen to all the episodes ahead of time on Stitcher Premium. Go to StitcherPremium.com/caseclosed and use the code CLOSED for a free trial. For more on this case, check out Crazy for You by Michael Fleeman here: bit.ly/crazyforyoubook

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're nearing the end of this season of Case Closed, but that doesn't have to be the end of the story.

0:06.0

You can learn even more juicy details about the case of Rusty Snydermann's murder from the book This Season is Based on.

0:13.3

Crazy for You by Michael Flemen.

0:16.0

It's full of familiar details from the podcast, plus extra parts of the story we didn't include here.

0:22.2

Crazy for You by Michael Flemen is available in paperback and digital audio, and you can buy it wherever books are sold.

0:30.9

Welcome back to Case Closed.

0:39.9

I'm your true crime guide, Charlie Spicer.

0:42.9

We've come to the last installment of this series on the Snydermann case.

0:47.9

Hemie Newman, Rusty's killer, is in jail.

0:50.9

Andrea Snydermann, Rusty's wife, is in jail.

0:55.9

Justice has been served, but there are still questions that need answers.

1:00.9

Let's start with Andrea.

1:02.9

She's in the Lee Arondale State Prison.

1:05.9

She arrived in late 2013.

1:11.9

Her time behind a fence and razor wire in a dormitory style building promised to be short.

1:16.9

With credit for her year of home confinement before trial and good behavior,

1:20.9

she could earn parole as early as spring 2014.

1:24.9

But even that was too much time for Andrea, who petitioned for bail.

1:28.9

This is a fight Andrea Snydermann is going to win, said her new lawyer, Doug Chalmers, brought in for the appeal.

1:35.9

Rusty's family was not happy that the murder charges had been thrown out, and that Andrea would serve relatively little time.

1:44.9

Our family has determined that we have no choice but to continue to litigate the pending civil lawsuits against the defendant to the fullest extent possible under the law, they said in a statement.

1:55.9

One of the actions, a wrongful death case, alleged that Andrea knew that her co-conspirator intended to kill Rusty Snydermann,

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