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Hans Reiser Interview on ABC's 20/20
baegucb_18706 noted that ABCs 20/20 has a lengthy article on the saga of the Hans Reiser murder trial. I'm not sure if this article provided any information that you might not have known if you read the earlier wired interview, but it's still a really strange story.
Interviewing Hans Reiser about the Hans Resier murder, eh? Clever.
How about interviewing Harry Buttle about that known terrorist Harry Tuttle?
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She hated him. She staged it and went back to Russia. Aren't their kids over there now? Go interrogate her parents...she can't be too far from them.
I think the pic caption is wrong - isn't that Hans on the right side?
Who knows, only Reiser certainly knows for sure. Mysteries just keep adding up in this strange story.
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Reiser, whose work kept him overseas in Russia for months at a time, wanted more children and did not want Nina returning to work as a doctor.
"I ran the business and I expected my wife to take care of the kids," he said.
Wow. Wotta guy. Let's see, I want to marry an intelligent, highly educated doctor and then turn her into a brood mare who stays in the kitchen making cookies. Yeah, that'll work.
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
In a reasonable system there is no way somebody can be convicted of murder without a body.
So Reiser's best friend had sex with Reiser's wife, confessed to the cops that he is a serial killer, but conveniently says he didn't kill Nina...and yet the cops don't arrest him. Sounds like we got the smart ones on that force.
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For several years prior to his wife's disappearance, he's been very strapped for money. He basically bankrupted himself to keep paying the russian programmers who were working on the reiser4 file system. His wife or friend may or may not have been involved in his money problems.
Do you have stats to back that up, or are you living your life based on what you've seen on television?
I've carried large sums of cash and my passport. Does that make me a murderer on the run?
It's completely circumstantial evidence.
But, if you put enough pieces together, circumstantial evidence can be damning in front of a jury, regardless if the truth is there or not.
From what I've seen, there are several ways it could have gone.
1) He killed her (the presumption of law enforcement)
2) Her new boyfriend, the drug and kinky sex fiend, killed her.
3) She's a sex slave, living in a crack house somewhere in the less friendly neighborhoods of any major US city.
4) She left town, and is living somewhere else in America or Canada.
5) She left the country, possibly for Russia.
As someone else said, they don't believe she could be in Russia. Any country with enough land and population, provides a place for anyone to hide comfortably, even in plain site. She could be working as a doctor, using her own name, with enough clients to be very comfortable, and still no one would notice.
I don't know all the facts, just the ones that have been presented in the media and in interviews. I'm not following closely though. I just know, none of us have all the evidence at our disposal, so none of us can make really educated opinions on it.
For all we know, it was some one-off killing, where some random lunatic saw a crying woman in a parking lot, killed her, drove her 1000 miles away, and buried her in a shallow grave. Heck, we've all done that once or twice. (j/k)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
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This kind of thought is the reason that we have the system that we do. Just because someone is a complete and utter dick doesn't mean that they're guilty of murder. Controlling? Probably. Abusive? Perhaps. But there are a lot of controlling, abusive dicks that don't murder their wives. There's evidence against him, but it has to go through a court first. I was saying this to others in the Scott Peterson case, too, and it's important that it not just be a formality.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
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I don't know what fascist dictatorship you live under, but in my part of the world it's "innocent until proven guilty".
Suicide is usually distressing for family and friends. It is sometimes the result of mental illness. But it is not "deplorable".
Who knows, only Reiser certainly knows for sure.
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One would presume that the lawyer has a reasonable idea which one he is as well...
Translators get paid in foreign dollars. Doctors are civil service positions in Russia, so they get paid poorly. A Doctor could moonlight as a translator in Russia, and make more money from translating than from saving people ...
Whichever it is, I'm happy to have had the chance to serve on a jury; I had the opportunity to diplomatically convince my fellow jurors to ignore the preconceived rantings of one prejudiced hick in our group and instead look at the evidence for the crime under consideration. Indeed, this hick happened to conclude guilty as I did - the difference was that I came to the conclusion based on what was presented to me throughout the case and after hours of discussion with my fellow jurors; this dolt had come to the decision by first recess on day one.
Hint: check the spellings ... carefully ... very carefully ...
Infuriate left and right
Wow, he's a smart one, this Hans Reiser.
.....while Hans gets paid all the money he paid him in fees.
A simple switch when his lawyer isn't paying attention, and his lawyer spends the rest of his life in jail.......
That's just cunning.
Wow, what selfish family and friends is all I can say
Selfish that you want people that you love to live? Selfish for a son to ask his father not to blow himself away but to try and find a job so he can see him grow up? Selfish for a daughter that needs her mother, a husband who needs his wife?
Those are some lazy, worthless relationships, you advocate. The best of human bonds are unbreakable... what you have, is pure Walmart family.
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Let me assemble your "evidence" here:
That is the evidence. Now, here is where your speculation starts -- and by "speculation", I mean "making shit up":
I've never had to live in my car, so you must never have had to, either, right?
Just because you never had to remove the passenger seat doesn't mean it's impossible for anyone to, or that the only reason you could possibly ever have is to clean blood from it.
So what?
There are any number of reasons you might be living in your car. Money is only one, perhaps the only you can think of. Or perhaps he needed the money for something else.
The most convenient way to put money in anyone's hands is electronically, yet US people write checks all the time. Why should Russian programmers be any different?
And now we move to the exercise in creative writing...
And you just made all of that up.
Go look up the definition for "reasonable doubt". We send people away when there is no other reasonable explanation for the evidence.
Well, fuck you. I've had a wet car, I've removed the seat from a car, I've had friends run from the cops (stupid thing to do, but still, doesn't make them guilty), and I have carried more cash than I should. And I've never killed anyone.
Maybe he did kill her, but nobody knows. Because nobody knows, and because we're in America, he should walk.
Unfortunately, because we're in America, you also have committed no crime by being an ignorant hate-spewing fucktard.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
But wouldn't revealing that violate attorney/client privilege?
What the hell happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? Yes he is an insane motherfucker, yes he bought books about murder trails, but that still doesn't prove anything.
Also, knowing that he is a programmer, he doesn't think like must people do. That makes him look crazy. But it still doesn't prove anything.
The US legal system seems more and more broken, and if he is sentenced to jail without further evidence, it just proves to me what I thought all along.
I am not saying that he is innocent, but I am saying he should be treated like he is until he is proven guilty!
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Your example reminds me of Einstein's pal, Fritz Haber.
He drove his wife Carla Immerwahr nuts by demanding she be a housewife (like Reiser) while she a chemistry researcher with ambitions, and it was not a happy marriage.
She committed suicide, coincidentally right after Haber introduced gas warfare in WW1 and killed 5000+ allied soldiers at the first front line trial in Ypres.
(Look it up on wikipedia, it's a colorful story.)
Interesting detail : Fritz Haber received a nobel prize for the "Haber" process for production of ammonia.
He also invented zyklon B.
Irony : Haber was of jewish origin.