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.

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I see!

[gowen]

Interviewing Hans Reiser about the Hans Resier murder, eh? Clever.
How about interviewing Harry Buttle about that known terrorist Harry Tuttle?

She's in Russia

[FunkyELF]

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.

Re:She's in Russia

[porkThreeWays]

The direct physical evidence against Reiser is limited, but police have built a detailed circumstantial case. In this day and age I didn't know you could take a murder to trial purely on circumstance. I'll admit it's extremely weird, but do they actually think they can convict him beyond a reasonable doubt in this day and age with no direct evidence? It almost seems irresponsible to try otherwise. No body. No DNA. No weapons of any sort found. Basically they have more evidence for Jimmy Hoffa's murder than they do this one. Heck, good luck proving she was actually murdered!

Re:She's in Russia

[Serge_Tomiko]

1) As the article says, he was living out of his car. Strange, but not unheard of - especially for someone who likely has few friends and is of limited financial means. 2) He didn't have a book on how to dispose a body, he had a book on murder investigations. As he was the target of one and didn't have a lot of money, this seems pretty reasonable. I'd probably do the same thing.

Re:Is that pic caption right?

[should_be_linear]

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.

Re:Good way to screw up your life Reiser

[phaunt]

If Einstein murdered his wife, he would be a murderer, not a genius. He would have been both a murderer and a genius. Maybe you meant he would have been remembered today as a murderer only, but I very much doubt that.

No body

[hey]

In a reasonable system there is no way somebody can be convicted of murder without a body.

Re:No body

[Ossifer]

The problem for the prosecution is that in the absence of any real evidence suggesting murder (pool of blood, scene of an altercation, etc.), any conceivable theory by the defense trumps a murder story.

The cops/prosecution decided Reiser must be guilty since he's really weird, despite no real evidence that a crime was committed at all. Having followed the case locally (from across the bay), I and many others were surprised the case even passed basic plausibility by the judge holding the preliminary hearing.

The reality is, in fact, that she may very well be alive and well in Russia...

Re:No body

[risk one]

Indeed, people without a body have enough to worry about without being convicted of all sorts of crimes.

Simple discrimination against being unable to manifest on the corporeal plane, that's what it is.

(I have nothing of value to add to this discussion)

Soo...

[DustyShadow]

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.

Re:Soo...

[Martin Blank]

Police frequently focus on more than one subject at a time. There have also been cases where they will stop public focus on one suspect while monitoring him for changes in behavior. This doesn't mean that they've ruled out whomever they're publicly talking about, but if the pressure is removed from one that is deemed more likely, then that person may slip up. Details of ongoing investigations are often not public records, so we won't know until after any trial is finished.

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Re:Renaissance man, indeed.

[bryanp]

Actually I was insulting a man who marries a woman and tries to force her to stay home with the kids when that wasn't what she wanted to do. But then you might have know that if you'd RTFA.

I have no problems with one parent staying home. I know several people who do that. Two families I'm thinking of the wife is the breadwinner and the husband is the stay-at-home dad.

OT: two job familes bad?

[doom]

Partly for that reason. In my opinion, it's rare for a maladjusted child to come from a home where the father works, and the mother cares for the children, but it's common for maladjusted children to be latch key kids with both parents working 2 jobs.

Do you have stats to back that up, or are you living your life based on what you've seen on television?

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Re:Renaissance man, indeed.

[mingot]

But, hey, you can insult women who want to devote their lives to their children all you like. And I could call you a feminazi supporter. But I won't, because I'd like to think I'm above that.

Is there a name for this sort of statement? You know, the "I'd call you x, but I'm above that sort of thing".

Re:Is that pic caption right?

[mickwd]

Wow, he's a smart one, this Hans Reiser.

A simple switch when his lawyer isn't paying attention, and his lawyer spends the rest of his life in jail....... .....while Hans gets paid all the money he paid him in fees.

That's just cunning.

Re:Renaissance man, indeed.

[Plutonite]

Bullshit. She seems to be one hell of a bitch, obviously married him only for the money and the oh-so-prized citizenship.

"She divorced me the day she became a citizen. I don't know whether it was the exact day but same month"

And from TFA she also was cleaning out his money. He introduced her to his best friend, to take care of her while he was away, but this highly intelligent, educated doctor you speak of let the man introduce her to drugs and fuck her while reiser wasn't there. Sounds like some Russian skank who wanted to escape being a translator for a dating service in KGB land. And beautiful? She looks barely average.

As for your blood-mare comment, I'm sure the governments of Sweden and similar nations who pay women to stay at home and care for their children several YEARS have something to say to you. I have the utmost respect for stay-at-home moms who are helping to build solid families for this country.. definitely more than your favorite juknie/ho "doctor".

Reiser could've had so much better for a wife, no matter how "weird" he is. Reiser also doesn't have the nicest of friends, unfortunately. Kind of tough when you're best friend is a homosexual serial killer who wanted to sleep with you then decided to give it to your Russian wife when you said no. Jesus fucking Christ, Hans, are there no other people in the world to make friends with?

Re:Good way to screw up your life Reiser

[tjstork]

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.

Re:Renaissance man, indeed.

[kv9]

Kind of tough when you're best friend is a homosexual serial killer who wanted to sleep with you then decided to give it to your Russian wife when you said no. Jesus fucking Christ, Hans, are there no other people in the world to make friends with? this story is so badass (especially if he killed her, manages not to get convicted then kills his buddy by bashing his head in with an oversized dildo) that Tarantino should consider it for one of his next movies.

Re:Good way to screw up your life Reiser

[Mr2001]

Selfish that you want people that you love to live? Yes, actually, it is selfish to expect someone else to live in suffering so that you don't have to feel the pain of their loss.