Crime & Safety
Hemy Neuman's Ex-Wife: He Was Never Crazy
Ariela Neuman finalizes divorce, speaks to media
Ariela Barkoni spoke with media for the first time this week following the finalization of her divorce from the man who killed Beachwood native Russell "Rusty" Sneiderman.
Video from WSB-TV: Day care killer's marriage officially ends
Barkoni was married to Hemy Neuman, who gunned down Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody, Ga. daycare center in late 2010.
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"We went through a very long and hard, painful journey, but I feel relieved," Ariela Barkoni, formerly Ariela Neuman, told Atlanta's WSB-TV News.
She added that she didn't buy Neuman's insanity defense during the trial, and she thinks Sneiderman's wife Andrea should be prosecuted.
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