Nina was located in a four-foot ditch near the West Ridge Trail, in Redwood Regional Park.  I shudder while thinking about how many times I walked right by her grave.  This was not exactly a remote spot!

CBS News Producer Paul LaRosa filed this report a little while ago.   We all remember the Hans Reiser case, and the defenses including Nina's escape to Russia.  As LaRosa said, "that puts a lie to his story."

I'm sickened about this visit to the Hills today.  With Nina's body as evidence, Hans might be able to prove the murder wasn't pre-meditated.  This means the sentence could be reduced from 25/life down to 15/life instead.  Not that this brings back Nina or changes his kids' lives in Russia.

Do you recall when Nina first went missing?  In Montclair, we were all horrified by this disappearance for a few days and hoped for the best.  But those flyers were up long after we knew better.  Years later, Hans was convicted of her murder due to overwhelming circumstantial evidence.

Our famous murder case is no longer a mystery.  Even though this closes the sordid tale, it will remain chilling for the Reisers' neighbors.

(Just as I predicted, he finally led them to her body. That is a good thing, for their children and her friends and loved ones)
Hans Reiser Brings Authorities to Nina's Body
Hans Reiser leads police to his wife's body
Nina Reiser's Remains Found
Body found in Oakland Hills is Nina Reiser
Hans Reiser leads police to wife's remains
Hans Reiser Reportedly Leads Police To Wife's Body
Reiser Shows Police Location Of Wife's Body

This week, however, my eyes were opened to a whole new and seriously weird side of people behind open source. Well, one person in particular really. Hans Reiser. On the 30 April he was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of killing his estranged wife Nina Reiser.

Reiser was an open source developer for Linux who created a new filing system for the open source company.

But a more strange situation I would be hard pressed to find. There was no body and no murder weapon and the case seems to have been based entirely on some reportedly weird behaviour of Reiser's, several drops of Nina's blood on a sleeping bag and pillar of their house, the fact that Reiser was carrying around $8,960 cash in a fanny pack (the fanny pack screams geek to me!) and bought some books on murder investigations after his wife went missing. So the defence based their response to the charges on what wired.com call “Geek Defense”. Which can be explained as this: “I may be awkward, a little weird, and prone to convoluted theories about nearly everything. But I am not a killer.” Which obviously didn't work out well for them.

Eish.

This man sounds cooked. The best response I've heard to the case was from my digsmate when I told her about it all she asked was "So did he plead insanity?"

With each new piece of information that I read on the case it becomes a little more bizarre.

The conviction also leaves Linux in a sticky spot. They can't very well use the recently developed elements of Reiser's file systems if they are associated with a convicted murderer. And according to Jonathan Corbet, founder of Linux news website LWN.net, even open source geeks aren't really interested in getting involved with the work of Reiser4 (the file system founded by Reiser).

For more information about the case:

Wired.com

Threat Level Visits Inmate No. BFPS63 - aka Hans Reiser

Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder

Defense Lawyer Says Reiser Didn't Help Himself

Techworld

Linux guru faces prison for murder

(Now that he has been convicted, just watch - he will want to deal for his sentence. He will tell where Nina's body is. It is just a feeling I have)
Hans Reiser Murder Trial: Trance Music, Belly Dancing and the Minotaur
Prosecutor Says Evidence Proves Reiser Killed Wife
Reiser Prosecutor: 'He's Lying Through His Teeth'
Reiser Defense: Nina's Death Hasn't Been Proven
Jury Begins Deliberating In Resier Murder Trial
Jurors In Reiser Trial End Week Without Verdict
The Mystery of Missing Nina
Reiser Jurors Reach Verdict
Juror: Hans Reiser Planned the Murder, 'Thought It Out'
Reiser Found Guilty Of Missing Wife's Murder
Reiser Smiles As Sentencing Date Set; Appeal Vowed
The Chronicle's Blog for Hans Reiser trial

Saiu a decisão do Julgamento de Hans Reiser, criador do ReiserFS, acusado de premeditar e matar a ex-esposa (Nina Reiser). Acusado do crime, ele tomou atitudes que fariam o pai e a madrasta da Isabella parecerem Gênios do Crime, como comprar livros sobre homicídios e andar com o carro com sangue da vítima, sem o banco do passageiro, com sacos de lixo e fita adesiva, etc. Além do carpete recém-lavado.

Fonte: Meiobit

New location combed in search for Reiser
Boy, 7, now says he didn't hear parents arguing
Hans Reiser's Mom: He Thought Wife Was 'Neurotic'
Preliminary Hearing For Hans Reiser Continues
Missing mother's reputation bashed
Craigslist, Spies Injected Into Hans Reiser Hearing
Mother-In-Law Critical Of Nina Reiser At Preliminary Hearing