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Fashionista
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Top News
Oakland software programmer found guilty in wife's death
From Associated Press
April 28, 2008 5:25 PM EDT
OAKLAND, Calif. - A jury has found an Oakland software programmer guilty in the death of his estranged wife.
Hans Reiser was convicted Monday of first degree murder in the death of Nina Reiser.
Nina Reiser disappeared more than a year ago after dropping the couple's children off at Hans Reiser's home. Her body has never been found.
Prosecutors said during the trial that small amounts of her blood were found in Reiser's home and car.
The defense argued there was no proof Nina Reiser was dead and suggested she may be living in her native Russia. They said there was no direct evidence linking Hans Reiser to her disappearance.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:39 pm |
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Reiser Found Guilty Of Missing Wife's Murder
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― An Alameda County jury found an Oakland computer software programmer guilty Monday afternoon in the death of his estranged wife, whose body has never been found.
Hans Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of Nina Reiser, who disappeared more than a year ago after dropping the couple's children off at Hans Reiser's home in the Oakland hills.
When the verdict was read, Reiser looked straight ahead, lowered his head and sighed. Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman had a bailiff remove Reiser from the courtroom right after the verdict was read.
Jurors took about two-and-a-half days to deliberate in the nearly six-month-long trial.
The body of Nina Reiser, who was born in Russia and was trained as a physician there, has never been found, despite extensive searches in the Oakland hills and elsewhere.
But in October of 2006, Hans Reiser was charged with murdering her because prosecutors said that they had evidence proving he killed her.
Prosecutors said during the trial that small amounts of Nina Reiser's blood were found in Hans Reiser's home and car and argued that he acted strangely after her disappearance, among other things, throwing away the seat of his car and washing down the floorboards.
Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty after his arrest and had maintaned his innocence throughout the lengthy legal proceedings against him.
The defense argued there was no proof Nina Reiser was dead and suggested she may be living in her native Russia. They also said there was no direct evidence linking Hans Reiser to her disappearance.
Nina and Hans Reiser married in 1999 but had been separated for two years and were in the midst of a bitter divorce case and a battle over custody of their children when she disappeared Sept. 3, 2006.
Nina, who was 31 when she disappeared, was awarded legal custody
of the children but Hans was allowed to have them several days a week.
Rory and his sister Nio are currently living in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Nina's mother, Irina Sharanova.
(© CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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| Katie
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:43 pm |
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Thanks Miranda for the update. 
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| Fashionista
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:54 pm |
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You are Welcome!
That's all
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:04 pm |
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I love that picture of her, She is a beautiful lady.
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| Schmerty
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Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:46 pm |
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Thank you for the report.
I guess the "Platypus" defense didn't work.
Rest in Peace,Nina. Too bad you only had 31 short years.
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Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:21 pm |
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guess i missed what evidence supports premeditation
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| woebedamned
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| dugo wrote: | | guess i missed what evidence supports premeditation |
Premeditaion is easily proven in the states. It doesnt mean "pre-planned", simply means the person had time to stop the action if he/she chose. For instance, if someone chokes someone, they have the entire time it takes to choke them to stop.
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| dugo
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from sfgate..
In an interview with your scribe this morning, Dunn said Reiser never showed any sympathy for Nina and that his premeditation was clear in part because he suddenly stopped using his Visa card in August 2006 and increasingly tried to contact Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele in the days before the murder to rally her help in changing the family court system.
.. ehmm .. ok
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Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:48 am |
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Wow! Hans may be ready to lead prosecutors to Nina's body in a plea deal for a lesser sentence! Stay tuned, I am shocked!!
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/hans-reiser-off.html
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Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:42 am |
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Uh!? Can the prosecution nuke a jury decision!?
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Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:46 am |
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Apparently... 
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| Schmerty
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Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:31 pm |
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Hans Reiser leads Police to body of Nina Reiser.
Reiser is to be sentenced on Wednesday & used this as a bid for reducing his conviction for 1st degree Murder 25yrs to life TO 2nd degree sentence of 15 yrs to life. Can they really overturn the Jury's Verdict???He said he did not know where is wife was & she was alive & probably in Russia????
Stay Tuned to KCBS.com. 
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Hans Reiser Leads Police To Wife's Body
POSTED: 6:08 pm PDT July 7, 2008
UPDATED: 8:39 pm PDT July 7, 2008
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A prominent software programmer who had denied having anything to do with his estranged wife's disappearance even after he was convicted of her murder led police Monday to what is believed to be her body, defense attorneys said.
The abrupt about-face came just two days before 44-year-old Hans Reiser was due in court to face sentencing on a conviction of first-degree murder handed down by a jury in April.
The discovery late Monday afternoon came after Reiser, handcuffed to another of his attorneys, William Du Bois, led police through Redwood Regional Park, defense lawyer Richard Tamor said.
The body was found in a grave about 4 feet by 4 feet, Tamor said. Reiser did not have difficulty locating the spot, the attorney said: "He went right to it."
Tamor described Reiser's demeanor as "pensive, as anybody would be."
Police confirmed a body had been found but would not speculate on the identity or disclose details of the search.
The ravine where the body was recovered was less than a mile from the house where Hans Reiser lived with his mother. The house is where Nina Reiser, 31, was last seen alive on Sept. 3, 2006, when she dropped off the couple's two children for a visit with their father.
In the weeks after Nina Reiser's disappearance, police led cadaver dogs into the same hills where the body was recovered. Volunteers combed the area at the time and posted signs seeking information about the missing woman, who was active in a local Russian Orthodox church.
Tamor declined to comment whether the defense hoped to negotiate a reduced sentence in return for revealing the location. Reiser, known in programming circles for his ReiserFS file system, now faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
Defense attorneys argued that no direct evidence linked their client to Nina Reiser's disappearance and suggested the woman might be living in Europe.
Prosecutors contended the circumstantial evidence against Reiser was strong: The two were involved in a bitter custody dispute, traces of her blood were found in his home and car and witnesses testified she would never have left her children.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/16815248/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news
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* Jul 7, 2008 8:51 pm US/Pacific
Reiser Shows Police Location Of Wife's Body
Reiser Shows Police Location Of Wife's Body
OAKLAND (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) ― A prominent Oakland computer software programmer convicted of killing his estranged wife even though her body had not been found led authorities to her corpse on Monday evening, lawyers and police said.
An attorney for Hans Reiser confirmed his client led police to a wooded area along the 8200 block of Skyline Blvd. in the Redwood Regional Park in the Oakland Hills, where Nina Reiser was buried.
"Hans Reiser, today, lead authorities, including the District Attorney's office of Alameda County, backed up by numerous members of the Oakland Police Department, the crime lab, and ultimately the coroners office, to the location of Nina Reiser's body," said Reiser's attorney William Dubois.
DuBois indicated he was handcuffed to Reiser as they made their way to Nina's burial site.
"It was difficult to reach the body," Dubois continued. "There were steep hills involved. It wasn't as bad going down it turned out, but we had to use ropes to get back up. It was an arduous process, and a difficult emotional trip for Hans Reiser. Very difficult."
Oakland police confirmed the body had been found but would not disclose details of the search.
"The remains, which have not yet been positively identified, were found buried off a hiking trail," according to a police statement.
The body was found in a grave about four feet by four feet, said Richard Tamor, another of Reiser's lawyers. Reiser did not have difficulty locating the spot, the attorney said: "He went right to it."
Tamor described Reiser's demeanor as "pensive, as anybody would be."
The ravine where the body was recovered was less than a mile from the house that Hans Reiser shared with his mother. It is an area that had been extensively searched by police with cadaver dogs in the weeks after Nina's disappearance.
It was an "extremely clever location," said CBS News producer Paul LaRosa, who noted that police at the scene told him they would never have found the body if Reiser did not take them there.
CBS News has learned that the 44-year old Reiser had offered to show prosecutors where Nina's body was hidden in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. Defense lawyers declined to comment on the deal and lead prosecutor Paul Hora could not immediately be reached.
Reiser's sentencing before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman was scheduled for Wednesday, but it has now been postponed.
Reiser was convicted on April 28 of first-degree murder by an Alameda County jury. Nina, then 31 years old, disappeared on Sept. 3, 2006 after dropping the couple's two children off for a visit at Hans' home. The Reisers were going through a contentious divorce and bitter custody dispute at the time.
The guilty verdict came at the end of two-and-a-half days of deliberations and a trial that lasted nearly six months. It also came despite the fact that the prosecution — which presented strong circumstancial evidence including traces of Nina's blood found in his home and car — had no body, no murder weapon, no definite timeframe and no cause of death.
Reiser, known in programming circles for his ReiserFS file system company, testified for 10 days during his trial during which he was scolded by the judge for giving often-rambling answers and for arguing with the prosecutor. Hora said he believed Reiser's behavior on the witness stand alienated jurors in the case.
Reiser's first-degree murder charge carries a mandatory sentence of 25-years to life in prison, but the deal with prosecutors could reduce his conviction to second-degree murder and a sentence of 15-years to life.
"To be making plea bargains at the sentencing phase, instead of the trial phase is very rare. I'll tell you that in all my years as a prosecutor, this is the kind of thing that almost never happens. But for murder victims not to know what happened to their loved ones is one of the most haunting things that can happen," said legal analyst Jim Hammer, a former assistant District Attorney for San Francisco.
Throughout his trial Reiser denied murdering his wife and DuBois had suggested that she could still be alive and hiding in her native Russia, which is where the couple met before marrying in 1999.
John Fuery, who first represented Reiser in his divorce case which with Nina which began in 2004, said he thought that Reiser made "a mistake" by taking police to the spot where he apparently buried her.
Fuery said leading authorities to the location of a murder victim's body "proves your guilt and is hard to undo" in the future when a convicted murderer goes before a parole board to ask to be released from state prison.
As a result, he believes even with the reported deal that Reiser would have a hard time ever being released from prison. "It will still be difficult to get out and he must prove that he's been rehabilitated," Fuery said.
http://cbs5.com/crime/nina.reiser.body.2.765747.html
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| SavannahStar
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Wow. So he finally did lead them to the body. Wow.
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Bizarre.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:52 am |
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from sfgate
Wife-killer leads cops to body in deal with D.A.
Hans Reiser seeks a reduced sentence - remains in Oakland hills not yet identified
Henry K. Lee,Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers
Monday, July 7, 2008
More... (07-07) 20:11 PDT OAKLAND -- Convicted killer Hans Reiser led police Monday to what he said was the body of his wife in the Oakland hills just two days before he was to be sentenced for first-degree murder, authorities said.
Reiser, who had proclaimed his innocence from the day his estranged wife, Nina, was last seen in September 2006, agreed to reveal the location of her body in exchange for a deal in which he would be sentenced for second-degree murder rather than the first-degree murder conviction a jury returned against him in April, according to officials with knowledge of the case.
Reiser also acknowledged that he and his wife had fought and that he had strangled her, a source familiar with the investigation said.
The maximum sentence Reiser could receive for second-degree murder is 15 years to life. Reiser had faced a term of 25 years to life under his first-degree murder conviction.
The remains that Reiser revealed Monday were found about 4 p.m. buried on the side of a steep hill off a deer trail between Redwood Regional Park and the Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve, less than 200 yards behind a house on Skyline Boulevard, said Reiser's attorney, William Du Bois, who accompanied his client to the site.
The body was less than half a mile from the home on Exeter Drive where Reiser lived with his mother, and where Nina Reiser, 31, was last seen alive Sept. 3, 2006.
"It's shocking, to say the least," said Michael Arboleda, a Skyline Boulevard resident who watched the police investigation.
Reiser was handcuffed to Du Bois and they accompanied Oakland police, prosecutor Paul Hora and Alameda County district attorney's Inspector Bruce Brock as the body was exhumed, Du Bois said.
Officer Roland Holmgren, Oakland police spokesman, said the body has not been positively identified. Police and prosecutors declined to further comment, saying a news conference is scheduled for today.
Reiser, 44, was convicted by an Alameda County jury April 28 after a six-month trial in which the combative software programmer testified over 11 days that he was innocent of killing his wife, who had not been seen since dropping off the couple's young son and daughter at his home. On the day Reiser was convicted, Hora said, "We have a body. We just don't know where it is."
Reiser was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, but the discovery of the body is likely to delay the hearing.
Du Bois declined to address the question of whether Reiser would receive a reduced sentence, saying, "We don't know. Talk to the D.A."
But the defense attorney added, "We're just trying to improve our position at this point."
Prosecutors agreed to the deal in which Reiser would receive a lighter sentence for revealing the location of his wife's body, said officials with knowledge of the case, speaking on condition they not be identified.
Du Bois confirmed that he and others had been urging Reiser to reveal the location of Nina Reiser's body.
"We've talked a very long time about the subject - not only myself, but many other people," Du Bois said.
The issue was "whether Hans would summon up the intestinal fortitude to do this - he did," Du Bois said.
Reiser knew exactly where the body was, his lawyer said.
"There was no difficulty once he got on the job," Du Bois said. "It wasn't something he had to search around for."
It was highly unlikely anyone else would have found the body, Du Bois said.
"They never would have found it, ever," he said. "It was so obscure, but I admit it was also clever because it was not that far off the road."
Michael Cardoza, a defense attorney and former Alameda County prosecutor who has been following the case, said he would be shocked if prosecutors agreed to the deal. "From a D.A.'s perspective, they would never do that."
However, he added, they might "if the family leaned on them so hard that they wanted to know where the body was," Cardoza said.
The Reisers were separated and going through an acrimonious divorce when Nina Reiser disappeared. During the trial, Du Bois hammered at the fact that Nina Reiser's body had never been found and suggested that she might be alive and hiding in her native Russia in an attempt to frame her estranged husband.
Prosecutors, however, believed that Hans Reiser killed his wife after she dropped off their children and that he disposed of her body using his mother's Honda CRX. Police later found the car with its front passenger seat missing and the floorboard saturated with water, as if someone had tried to clean it.
It takes about a minute to drive from Hans Reiser's home to where the body was found Monday. Prosecutors said Reiser had abandoned his wife's Honda Odyssey minivan on a street near Highway 13 and hid the CRX from police in a similar fashion on another street near the highway.
An inmate at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin testified during the murder trial that Reiser raced to a television set when a news report came on in February 2007 about a body being found in the Oakland hills. Reiser was visibly relieved when the reporter said the body was that of a black man, the inmate testified.
Albert Chiu, 61, a retired federal government worker whose home is close to where the body was found Monday, said a police helicopter began flying overhead about 3 p.m. Officers soon swarmed the area, joined by police technicians and forensic scientists.
Chiu said he didn't recall seeing or hearing anything suspicious near his home around the time Nina Reiser disappeared. He said he believed private search parties had searched the trail shortly after she went missing.
"I think they walked up and down," he said.
Vince Dunn, 61, a member of the jury that convicted Reiser, said he was elated that Nina Reiser's body apparently had been found.
The discovery shows that "our decision was based on fact and circumstance," the retired schoolteacher said. "We made the right decision."
Throughout the trial, the seven-man, five-woman jury - like everyone - wanted to know where Nina Reiser's body was, Dunn said. "It was the same question that the children had," he said.
Dunn said it would be wrong for Reiser to get a lighter sentence for revealing where he had buried his wife's body.
"It just doesn't seem right to me that that can happen in America," Dunn said. "I thought the jury had the last say."
Ellen Doren, Nina Reiser's best friend, said she wanted to know how Reiser, his father and his attorneys would explain their long-standing theory that the mother of two had disappeared on her own. Doren decried what she called "the show they put on and the circus they put on over the past year. I think they put so much dirt on Nina, now they're going to have to get themselves out of the dirt."
Doren said she was convinced that Reiser wouldn't have agreed to divulge the location of the body if there were not a deal. "Hans would not do this without any kind of deal. There is no other way."
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| SavannahStar wrote: | | Wow. So he finally did lead them to the body. Wow. |
Savannah, his children must be so proud. I'm pleased that Nina can be finally laid to rest by her family and friends. His lies and deceit caused such anguish and pain to his children, I think they should tag on a few more years rather than reduce his sentence. Very sad, I do understand that her body may not have been recovered but it looks like a convicted killer can use the victim even after death as a 'hostage' and a bargaining tool.
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We'll see how post conviction deals will work for him..
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Hans Reiser to plead GUILTY TO 2ND DEGREE MURDER!
KCBS.com
After leading authorities to his wife's body,Hans Reiser has cut a deal that puts him up for parole sooner!
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This sort of thing doesn't happen too often. I too wonder how this will all play out. Amazing!
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| Saucey wrote: | | This sort of thing doesn't happen too often. I too wonder how this will all play out. Amazing! |
On KCBS.com Juror # 7 comments on how he feels & how the other eleven jurors feel. He thinks this is not right for the Jury's verdict of guilty of 1st degree murder to be changed & especially considers the defense attorney a manipulating so & so.
I wish I could post large excerpts. I'm using a" macbookpro" that is new to me. I haven't learned how to stop thinking "windows & Mouse"
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Computer Programmer Leads Police to Wife's Body
Hans Reiser Made the Deal in Exchange for Reduced Sentence
By JIM AVILA
ABC News Law & Justice Unit
July 7, 2008
ABC News has learned that convicted murderer Hans Reiser led police to a body he says is that of his estranged wife, Nina. In exchange for revealing the location of the body, Reiser is expected to get his conviction reduced from first degree murder to second degree murder, and will likely serve less jail time.
On April 28, a California jury convicted Reiser, 44, of first degree murder in the disappearance of his wife, even though her body had not been found.
Watch the story Wednesday, July 9, on "Primetime: Crime" at 10 p.m. ET
The sentencing, originally scheduled for July 9, has been postponed until forensics on the body are complete. A first degree murder conviction would result in a sentence of 25 years to life in prison, while the second degree conviction carries a sentence of 15 to life.
ABC's "20/20" previously reported on the case of Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old doctor and mother of two, who went missing on Sept. 3, 2006. She had been in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from her husband, a well-known computer programmer.
Reiser, shackled to his defense attorney, William Du Bois, led police on a long hike in California's Redwood State Park to a ravine where his wife was buried deep in the ground inside a plastic bag.
In addition to Reiser and Du Bois, the prosecution trial attorney, Paul Hora, and Judge Larry Goodman -- presiding over the Reiser case -- were present on the hike. The body will be recovered tonight, and a coroner's van is standing by.
Search for Bride Ends in Murder
Reiser was a child prodigy who dropped out of junior high school and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, at age 15. After college, he made his mark in the business world, starting a technology company and developing a new computer file system some consider revolutionary.
Reiser went to Russia in 1998 looking for cheap labor for his computer business, and a bride. He met Nina in 1998, and by May 1999, Reiser married his Russian bride. Nina was, by then, five months pregnant. A bizarre wedding video shows a nontraditional wedding -- Reiser's best friend Sean Sturgeon, dressed in drag, was the maid of honor.
The couple were happy in the early years of their marriage, giving birth to a son, Rory, and daughter Niroline. But fights about how those children were being raised were at the center of a marriage that began to crumble.
Reiser lost custody of his children in the divorce proceedings before his wife's disappearance.
Nina disappeared more than a year ago after dropping off the couple's children at Reiser's home. After the disappearance, even without a body, it didn't take long for police to arrest Reiser and charge him with his wife's murder.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5327310&page=2
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Police ID remains as software programmer's wife
Tue Jul 8, 6:37 PM ET
OAKLAND, Calif. - Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.
Prosecutor Paul Hora said Tuesday that Reiser's revelation was part of a proposed deal that would reduce his conviction from first- to second-degree murder. That deal still needs to be approved by a judge.
Reiser led police Monday to remains buried not far from his home in the Oakland hills. Authorities say they were able to identify the body as Nina Reiser's through dental records, jewelry and clothing.
A jury found him guilty of murder in April. But until this week, it wasn't clear what happened to the 31-year-old woman.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A body was removed from a remote area of the Oakland hills after a prominent computer programmer about to be sentenced for killing his missing wife led investigators to the site, authorities said Tuesday.
Hans Reiser's attorney said the body is believed to be that of his estranged wife, Nina Reiser. Alameda County authorities removed a body from the scene overnight and were set to begin examining it, investigator Damon Wilson of the Alameda County sheriff's office said early Tuesday.
Reiser, 44, was due in court Wednesday to face sentencing after being found guilty of murder in April. His wife vanished in 2006 as the two were in the midst of a bitter custody battle.
Reiser, known in programming circles for his ReiserFS file system, had always asserted his innocence. He led authorities to the site Monday.
Police would not speculate on the identity of the body or disclose details of the search. Alameda County prosecutors and Oakland police said they planned to hold a news conference Tuesday.
"This is a difficult scene to process. It's in a very rugged area," sheriff's spokesman J.D. Nelson said late Monday.
Defense attorney Richard Tamor said Reiser did not have difficulty locating the spot: "He went right to it." Reiser was handcuffed to another of his attorneys as he led police to the site, Tamor said.
Tamor declined to comment on speculation that the defense hoped to negotiate a reduced sentence in return for revealing the location. Reiser now faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
The ravine where the body was recovered was less than a mile from the house where Hans Reiser lived with his mother.
The house is also where Nina Reiser, 31, was last seen alive on Sept. 3, 2006, when she dropped off the couple's two children for a visit with their father.
Reiser testified for several days in the six-month trial and was scolded by the judge for arguing with the prosecutor. His attorneys had argued that there was no direct evidence linking their client to Nina Reiser's disappearance and suggested the woman might be living in Europe.
Prosecutors contended the circumstantial evidence against Reiser was strong: The two were involved in a custody dispute, traces of her blood were found in his home and car, and witnesses testified she would never have left her children.
In the weeks after Nina Reiser's disappearance, police with cadaver dogs searched the hills where the body was found.
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