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Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:01 pm |
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Nina Reiser
Any other nerds following this (no body no) case? http://www.ninareiser.com
The suspect, currently in jail, is well known in the open source community for maintaining the Reiser File System.
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Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:59 pm |
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This is so unbelievably sad.
I hope those with more information about this case will post it here in this thread.
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| pax wrote: | This is so unbelievably sad.
I hope those with more information about this case will post it here in this thread. |
Me, too, Pax..I'll try to find time to do some searching for updates.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
OAKLAND
Husband arrested as suspect
Police say they have evidence that missing mother of two is dead
Capping a monthlong investigation, Oakland police arrested the estranged husband of a missing Oakland woman Tuesday on suspicion of murder.
Police said they have evidence to suggest that Nina Reiser, 31, who went missing Sept. 3, is dead. Her body has not been found.
"All avenues led us to Mr. Reiser being responsible for the death and disappearance of Ms. Nina Reiser," said homicide Lt. Ersie Joyner.
Police arrested Hans Reiser, 42, at 11 a.m. at an acquaintance's home on Simson Street in East Oakland. The computer programmer is expected to be arraigned on murder charges Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland.
"We believe that based on circumstantial evidence, as well as statements and other evidence, that Hans Reiser murdered Nina Reiser," Oakland Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference.
Without elaborating, police said they had biological and trace evidence suggesting that Nina Reiser was dead. Her body is believed to be somewhere in the Bay Area, police said.
"We have not located her body," Jordan said. "However, we are working diligently to locate the body. Our investigation has gone from a search and rescue to a search and recovery."
Jordan added, "We feel very strongly that the D.A. will file charges against him and that we will prosecute him with or without a body."
Hans Reiser has "made himself unavailable" to speak with police about what happened on the day his wife dropped off their children at his home, said Oakland police Officer Ryan Gill, a missing persons investigator.
The suspect's attorney, William Du Bois of Oakland, said Tuesday, "I have no idea what the circumstantial evidence is. When I hear what the evidence is against him, I'll make a decision as to whether he'll talk to them."
Du Bois said police were refusing him access to his client after the arrest. Jordan disputed that, saying Hans Reiser had not requested his attorney.
Hans Reiser's arrest came after Oakland police and an FBI evidence response team searched his home on the 6900 block of Exeter Drive in the Oakland hills beginning at about 6 p.m. Monday.
Police removed items from the home, including what appeared to be a door and a rolled-up carpet. Police said they had served 15 search warrants during the investigation but declined to detail the material that was seized.
The search was the second at the six-room house, located on a winding street off Shepherd Canyon Road. In mid-September, police spent several days searching the home, where his mother also lives, and brought in a cadaver dog.
Investigators used a search warrant Sept. 28 to obtain a DNA sample from Hans Reiser.
Nina Reiser, who filed for divorce in August 2004, was last seen at her husband's home on Sept. 3, when she dropped off the couple's son and daughter. She failed to meet her best friend, Ellen Doren, at her house later that evening, authorities said.
Nina Reiser's 2001 Honda Odyssey minivan, with groceries inside, was found Sept. 9 in the city's Thornhill neighborhood. Neighbors first spotted the parked minivan Sept. 5, the day she was supposed to pick up her children at school, police said.
Hans Reiser's mother, Beverly Palmer, and a second person were at the Simson Street home when he was arrested. Both were being interviewed Tuesday, police said.
Curtis McDonald, who lives on Simson, said investigators searched the home Tuesday and about two weeks ago.
Police said they had tracked the suspect to the home and to points throughout the Bay Area in recent weeks through undercover surveillance. Residents of the home where he was arrested declined comment.
Anthony Zografos, Nina Reiser's boyfriend, wept while attending Tuesday's news conference. Then he abruptly left.
"I have no thoughts," Zografos said earlier Tuesday. "Until they find Nina, I don't know what to think."
Shelley Gordon, Nina Reiser's divorce attorney, said, "I guess that the police are not expecting to find Nina alive. I'm very sad about that, terribly sad. I just pray for the children."
The Reisers were married in 1999 and frequently traveled to Russia, where she was born. They separated in May 2004.
Nina Reiser filed for divorce three months later, citing irreconcilable differences and saying their children "hardly know their father" because he was out of the country on business for most of the year, according to court records.
Nina Reiser, who was trained as an obstetrician and gynecologist in Russia, was granted custody of the children, whom Jordan described Tuesday as "basically orphans." The divorce was not finalized.
Nina Reiser's friends have started a Web site, www.ninareiser .com, which reminds visitors of a $15,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. Twenty billboards asking for help in finding her were posted throughout Oakland on Tuesday.
Zografos and Doren said they still planned to formally unveil the billboards today.
"I'm very hopeful, because that's the only way to get through the day right now, to keep having hope," Doren said.
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Nina:
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Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:12 pm |
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Her husband, the one arrested/suspected...could use some Crest White Strips. 
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:16 pm |
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This is very sad. i would like to keep up with this one.
does any one know if there is a time line, like when she arrived at the house ,and the boyfriend where was he any times on this day.have the police said anything what they may have found any hints at all.anymore searching been done.
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 10:44 pm |
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Re: Nina Reiser
| dugo wrote: | Any other nerds following this (no body no) case? http://www.ninareiser.com
The suspect, currently in jail, is well known in the open source community for maintaining the Reiser File System. |
What is that file system, dugo?
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:48 pm |
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Lets see from about 2pm dropping off the kids and planning on food shopping, and to meet up with a friend at around 6 that would give about 4 hours, so why did it take 2 days before it was reported she went missing. also they say they found a purse and and groceries, i wonder if there was any reciepts or any video cameras that could maybe have spotted her there or any one there that saw her there, have they talked to these people , keep talking you never know, keep asking questions,go over things with a fine tooth comb
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:57 pm |
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Ok im just thinking some more, did he know she was going to the store, did he follow her? did he leave the kids by themsleves, still day light i am assuming. did she come back to the house afterwards and something happened then,have they checked the car out.
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:14 am |
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Re: Nina Reiser
| pax wrote: | | dugo wrote: | Any other nerds following this (no body no) case? http://www.ninareiser.com
The suspect, currently in jail, is well known in the open source community for maintaining the Reiser File System. |
What is that file system, dugo? |
A system to organise data on disk drives, like DOS and early the early Windows operating systems used the FAT16 filesystem, and modern windows uses the NTFS filesystem. It is often used by users of the Linux operating system. It is very good and even benchmarked as the fastest filesystem around.
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:18 am |
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| Highrise wrote: | | Ok im just thinking some more, did he know she was going to the store, did he follow her? did he leave the kids by themsleves, still day light i am assuming. did she come back to the house afterwards and something happened then,have they checked the car out. |
Yes, the front seat was missing. They also found ao. trace amounts of blood in the car and two books.
[1]Homicide, by David Simon and Masterpieces of Murder, by Jonathan Goodman.
Source: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/ngno/stories/027462_print.html
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:21 am |
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Thanks dugo for this information
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Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:43 pm |
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Re: Nina Reiser
| dugo wrote: | | pax wrote: | | dugo wrote: | Any other nerds following this (no body no) case? http://www.ninareiser.com
The suspect, currently in jail, is well known in the open source community for maintaining the Reiser File System. |
What is that file system, dugo? |
A system to organise data on disk drives, like DOS and early the early Windows operating systems used the FAT16 filesystem, and modern windows uses the NTFS filesystem. It is often used by users of the Linux operating system. It is very good and even benchmarked as the fastest filesystem around. |
Thanks dugo.
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(28/11) Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty. Daniel Horowitz stepped down as attorney, Hans can not afford him anymore. I don't know the guy but I heard he is good at preventing murderers getting the death penalty, but I could be wrong here. William Du Bois is still part of the defense in this no-body-no-case.
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OAKLAND -- The Contra Costa County sheriff's search and rescue team searched for the body of 31-year-old Nina Reiser in a hilly area near Oakland on Saturday but wasn't able to find her, sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said Monday.
Lee said about 50 members of the volunteer search and rescue team, under the supervision of sheriff's deputies, combed Pinehurst Road in the area of the small town of Canyon, which is in unincorporated Contra Costa County just below Oakland and the Alameda County line in the East Bay hills.
Lee said the search was "pretty challenging" because the area is lush and there's a lot of vegetation and trees.
Reiser, the mother of two small children, disappeared from Oakland Sept. 3 and hasn't been seen since.
Her husband, software developer Hans Reiser, 43, was charged with murdering her after Oakland police said they found biological and trace evidence suggesting that she is dead as well as blood evidence tying him to her death.
The Oakland Police Department conducted previous searches for Nina Reiser in Oakland.
Lee and Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said they don't know of any additional searches that are planned at this time.
Hans Reiser, who's being held in custody without bail, pleaded not guilty to the murder charges at a hearing last week.
He's scheduled to have a preliminary hearing in Alameda County Superior Court on Dec. 11. The purpose of the hearing is to determine if there's enough evidence to order him to stand trial.
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interesting that Horowitz stepped down. Considering his wife was brutally murdered a year or so ago (the scott dyleski case) I wonder if this was purely monetary. He actually takes a few pro bono cases, and it may have more to do with what he discovered...and if he could handle this particular defense. I have a feeling that when it comes to this sort of murder he may have found it more difficult than expected if he was convinced of guilt.
just a thought.
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Reiser wants speedy trial
OAKLAND _ Hans Reiser pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murdering his wife, Nina Reiser, and invoked his right for a speedy trial, which will force the district attorney to present its case within weeks.
more @ http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_4734707
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Murder Suspect Selling Company
By Joshua Davis| Also by this reporter 13:00 PM Dec, 21, 2006
DUBLIN, California -- Hans Reiser, the prominent Bay Area Linux programmer charged with murdering his wife, says he's seeking to sell off his open-source file system company, Namesys, to help pay mounting legal costs.
In the first interview since his arrest, ..(big snip more @ http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72342-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1 )
Preliminary hearings in the case are set to resume Jan. 2.
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OAKLAND
Missing woman's husband nervous, witness says
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, January 3, 2007
An Oakland computer programmer accused of killing his wife appeared nervous and didn't make eye contact with an employee at his children's after-school program two days after his estranged wife was last seen, the employee testified Tuesday.
Hans Reiser's wife, Nina Reiser, didn't pick up her children as scheduled Sept. 5, Natalie Potter testified on the sixth day of Hans Reiser's preliminary hearing in Alameda County Superior Court.
Instead, Hans Reiser showed up at Adventure Time at Joaquin Miller Elementary School in Oakland, looking "very nervous-like, his head down, his body moving from side to side," Potter said. "No eye contact with me at all."
Without providing specifics, Reiser asked if he could set up a meeting to discuss the after-school program's enrollment policies, Potter said. He wrote down a cell phone number as a contact that turned out to be incorrect, she said.
Reiser, 43, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the disappearance of his wife, who has not been seen since Sept. 3 when she dropped off their son and daughter at the Oakland hills home where Reiser lived with his mother.
Police have not found Nina Reiser's body but say they believe she is a victim of murder. The defense contends that there is no proof she is dead and that the prosecution's case is circumstantial.
Under questioning by Deputy District Attorney Greg Dolge, Potter said Hans Reiser had told her when he arrived at the after-school program that "he was not there to pick up the children." After Potter asked him if it was all right for Ellen Doren, a friend of Nina Reiser's, to pick them up, he said, "Yeah, yeah, that's fine," with a dismissive wave of his hand, Potter said.
"He left without his children," she said. "He seemed really dismissive of the children." Defense attorney William Du Bois objected to that statement, and Judge Julie Conger sustained the objection.
On cross-examination, Potter said that when Doren arrived, she told school employees that Nina Reiser, 31, was out of town. But the missing woman's daughter was with Doren at the time, and Doren made the remark "for the benefit of the child," Potter said.
Also Tuesday, Du Bois parried with the prosecutor and the judge over whether a book about the Baltimore police homicide squad, found in Hans Reiser's car Sept. 19, could be introduced as evidence.
Reiser bought the book, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" by David Simon, at a Barnes and Noble store in Berkeley on Sept. 8, Oakland police Officer Jesse Grant testified Tuesday, basing his statements on surveillance camera footage and a receipt.
Du Bois objected to the book's admission as evidence, saying that meant the defense lawyer would have to read it. "That doesn't follow," the judge said, shaking her head.
After discussing something with his client, Du Bois withdrew his objection and said, "I think we all should read it. There's some good stuff in there."
To support his change of heart, Du Bois asked Grant if he knew the book includes a chapter about police planting evidence.
Grant said he did not, but he then told the prosecutor that he did know the book discusses the difficulties in disposing of a body.
The preliminary hearing resumes Jan. 16, when the judge plans to question the Reisers' 7-year-old son in a closed courtroom. The boy testified last month in open court that, contrary to an earlier police account, he hadn't heard his parents arguing and that his mother walked out the door the day police say they believe she was killed.
Du Bois said he plans to call Cheryl Hicks, an attorney representing Hans Reiser in child-custody hearings and, possibly, some relatives of his client. When the hearing concludes, Conger will determine whether Reiser should be held over for trial.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
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Son's Testimony May Be Key In Reiser Murder Hearing
POSTED: 7:48 pm PST January 2, 2007
OAKLAND -- The testimony of 7-year-old Rory Reiser emerged Tuesday as a key factor in the case against Oakland software developer Hans Reiser on charges that he murdered his estranged wife Nina Reiser, who was last seen alive on Sept. 3.
At the end of the sixth day of a preliminary hearing that will determine if there's enough evidence to order Hans Reiser to stand trial, attorneys said his son Rory Reiser currently is in Russia with Nina Reiser's mother, but will return to the witness stand at the request of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger when the hearing resumes on Jan. 16.
Rory Reiser testified on Dec. 11 on the first day of his father's hearing, which is playing out over a period of days due to the schedules of the attorneys in the case.
Conger said Tuesday that she expects the hearing to conclude on Jan. 16 and she will make a ruling at that time.
The press and public will be barred from Rory Reiser's testimony.
After court adjourned, prosecutor Greg Dolge said that's because Conger "wants to make it as comfortable as she can" for the boy to testify.
But Hans Reiser's attorney, William DuBois, said Dolge was the one who requested that the courtroom be closed.
DuBois said he believes Rory's testimony thus far gives Reiser an alibi because it indicates that Reiser was at home with his two children at the time prosecutors allege that he killed his wife.
"My client had absolutely no opportunity to commit the crime" based on Rory's testimony on Dec. 11, which was open to the public, DuBois said.
But Dolge said he believes Rory's testimony indicates "consciousness of guilt" by Hans Reiser because Rory said his father told him the morning of Sept. 5, two days after Nina Reiser disappeared, that he would pick up his children after school that day, even though Nina Reiser had been scheduled to do so.
Dolge said if it's true that Hans Reiser said he would pick up his kids that day it would indicate he knew that Nina Reiser already was dead.
Nina Reiser, 31, who was trained as a gynecologist in her native Russia, was last seen about 2 p.m. on Sept. 3 when she dropped off the couple's two children at Hans Reiser's home at 6979 Exeter Drive.
Hans Reiser, 43, and Nina Reiser married in 1999 but separated in May of 2004. They were undergoing contentious divorce proceedings at the time she disappeared, but the divorce wasn't finalized.
Nina Reiser was awarded both legal and physical custody of Rory and his 5-year-old sister Nio but Hans Reiser was allowed to have the children one weeknight a week and every other weekend.
Nina Reiser's body hasn't been found, but in October Hans Reiser was charged with murdering her after Oakland police said they found biological and trace evidence suggesting that she is dead, as well as blood evidence tying him to her death. Reiser was being held in custody without bail.
The children are now in foster care, but Nina Reiser's mother was allowed to take them to Russia for the holidays. DuBois said they're scheduled to return to the Bay Area on Jan. 14.
In court Tuesday, Dolge called to the witness stand Natalie Potter, a site director of a day program at the Oakland elementary school that the Reiser children attended, in order to try to bolster his belief that Rory's testimony implicates his father.
Dolge told Conger that Potter's testimony "will show the defendant's (Hans Reiser's) guilty state of mind."
Potter testified that when Reiser came to the day care center at Joaquin Miller Elementary School the afternoon of Sept. 5, two days after Nina Reiser disappeared, he was "very nervous, his body moved from side to side and he made no eye contact."
Potter said Reiser wanted to set up a meeting to discuss the day care center's policies but didn't pick up his children. She said one of Nina Reiser's closest friends, Ellen Doren, picked up the children.
Outside court, DuBois said Rory Reiser testified on Dec. 11 that he played video games with Hans Reiser in the basement of his home the afternoon of Sept. 3 after Nina Reiser had dropped off the children at his house.
According to testimony at the hearing, Nina Reiser made purchases at the Berkeley Bowl grocery store at 12:37 p.m. and 1:55 p.m. on Sept. 3.
According to a probable cause search warrant filed in court, the last call made from her cell phone was at 2:02 p.m. that day and was made to Hans Reiser's home.
DuBois said he doesn't think that Rory's testimony-in which he cited his father saying he would pick up the children after school on Sept. 5-is reliable because he thinks the boy got his days mixed up.
DuBois said Rory testified that he and his sister were picked up by Oakland police after school that day, but that actually happened three days later, on Sept. 8.
DuBois said he doesn't think there's enough evidence to justify ordering Reiser to stand trial, but Dolge said prosecutors "have everything we need for a holding order."
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(01-1 11:17 PST OAKLAND -- An Alameda County judge today rescinded her request for the 7-year-old son of an Oakland man charged with murdering his wife to return to testify in court, saying the boy is likely to remain in Russia.
Superior Court Judge Julie Conger said the boy's maternal grandmother is seeking custody of him in Russian courts.
"I am not inclined to take any action on (the boy's) non-appearance at this time," Conger said, adding that the boy had already testified in open court last month, and nothing further is needed from him unless he returns to the United States voluntarily.
Today's hearing was delayed until Feb. 23, at which point attorneys will give closing arguments before Conger decides whether there is enough evidence to hold Hans Reiser, a 43-year-old computer programmer, over for trial. Reiser has pleaded not guilty.
On Tuesday, the hearing came to a halt when attorneys told the judge that the boy had failed to return from a planned visit to Russia and might never come back.
The boy, whom The Chronicle is not naming because of his age, is under the care of a Russian therapist who recommended that he not return to the United States on the grounds that he is traumatized by the presumed slaying of his Russian-born mother, Nina Reiser, 31, whose body has not been found, attorneys told Conger.
The therapist reported that the boy was having behavioral problems, including crying and not being able to sleep, according to Deputy District Attorney Greg Dolge.
Last month, the boy testified that, contrary to an earlier police account, he hadn't heard his parents arguing and that he had seen his mother walk out the door of his father's home on Sept. 3, the day police believe that she was killed.
Outside court, Reiser's attorney, William Du Bois, said the fact that both the boy and his 5-year-old sister are in St. Petersburg, Russia, could mean that Nina Reiser is alive and with her children.
Nina Reiser obtained Russian citizenship for her daughter two years ago and did the same for her son in July, two months before she disappeared, Du Bois said, noting that Russia doesn't recognize dual citizenship.
"I think the clear implication is that she might have had something to do with this," Du Bois said. "Maybe she was planning to take the kids to Russia and leave her husband here in jail."
Du Bois said he planned to file briefs to the judge arguing that the case against his client is weak because Nina Reiser's body hasn't been found.
But the prosecutor maintained that Nina Reiser is the victim of murder
-- and that the evidence points to Hans Reiser.
"I have absolutely no information, no indication that Nina is alive in Russia," Dolge said.
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Calif. Husband Charged With Murder
By Kim Curtis
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shortly after Nina Reiser disappeared, police found her blood in her estranged husband's home and car. The passenger seat was missing. The floor was soaked with water. And in the back were two true-crime books about murder.
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Hans Reiser was quickly questioned, jailed and charged with murdering his wife.
But prosecutors are going to have to prove it without a body, because they have yet to find her remains.
His lawyer already has tried to explain away Nina Reiser's disappearance by suggesting she simply returned to her native Russia or got mixed up with a sadomasochist or the Russian Mafia.
"You can prove the case, but it's a terrific challenge," said E. Michael McCann, the former Milwaukee district attorney who prosecuted Jeffrey Dahmer. He said he remembers about a half-dozen "no-body" homicides during his 38-year career. "A prosecutor's hope is that something will turn up."
Hans Reiser, a 43-year-old Oakland software developer, is being held without bail while a judge decides whether there is enough evidence to try him. A decision is expected next month.
In addition to the blood in his Honda CRX were a roll of trash bags, masking tape, absorbent towels and two books: "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," by David Simon, about the Baltimore police homicide squad, and "Masterpieces of Murder," by Jonathan Goodman, about notorious murder cases.
Reiser bought the books five days after his wife's disappearance last September, according to police. But prosecutors have noted the books included chapters on how to dispose of a body.
Defense attorney William Du Bois has countered by saying the books contain chapters on how police plant evidence and set up murder scenes.
The Reisers had been married about five years when she filed for divorce in 2004. A bitter custody battle ensued; she was granted a restraining order against him later that year. She also took him to court for not keeping up with child support.
The couple's son, 7-year-old Rory, testified at a preliminary hearing last month that he did not hear his mother and father arguing the day she disappeared, contradicting his earlier statements to police.
Judge Julie Conger said she wanted to ask the boy more questions and ordered him to return to court on Jan. 16, after he and his 5-year-old sister spent the holidays in Russia with their maternal grandmother. But the boy never returned to court, and Conger said he was still in St. Petersburg, where his grandmother has begun custody proceedings.
Du Bois said Nina Reiser inexplicably obtained Russian citizenship for her son two months before she disappeared. She did the same for her daughter two years ago.
"Maybe she was planning to take the kids to Russia and leave her husband here in jail," Du Bois said outside court last week.
Du Bois also elicited testimony that Nina Reiser dated a sadomasochist after separating from her husband. In addition, the defense attorney suggested she and her family had ties to a Russian spy agency and organized crime.
Prosecutor Greg Dolge said that he has no evidence whatsoever that Nina Reiser is in Russia, and investigators have both her U.S. and Russian passports.
Dolge refused to answer questions about motive and cause of death. But he said he has enough to prove his case without a body.
"She's not alive," he said. "Hans killed her."
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Mother-In-Law Critical Of Nina Reiser At Preliminary Hearing
POSTED: 3:58 pm PST December 12, 2006
OAKLAND -- The mother of murder defendant Hans Reiser testified Tuesday that he thought his wife Nina Reiser, who disappeared on Sept. 3, was "very neurotic" and didn't pay enough attention to their children.
Called to the witness stand by prosecutor Greg Dolge in the second day of a preliminary hearing that will determine whether Hans Reiser should stand trial, Beverly Palmer said Hans Reiser thought Nina Reiser was a liar and "projected ailments" on the couple's 7-year-old that the son didn't have.
Palmer said that in a phone conversation several weeks after Nina Reiser disappeared, Hans Reiser said Nina Reiser "didn't deserve whatever happened to her" but he also said he didn't deserve to be a suspect in the case and their children didn't deserve to be placed in foster care.
Nina Reiser, 31, who was trained as a gynecologist in her native Russia, was last seen about 2 p.m. on Sept. 3 when she dropped off the couple's two children at Hans Reiser's home in the 6900 block of Exeter Drive in Oakland.
Hans Reiser, a 43-year-old computer programmer, and Nina Reiser married in 1999 but separated in May of 2004. They were undergoing contentious divorce proceedings at the time she disappeared but the divorce wasn't finalized.
Nina Reiser was awarded custody of the couple's 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter but Hans Reiser was allowed to have the children one weeknight a week and every other weekend.
Nina Reiser's body hasn't been found, but in October Hans Reiser was charged with murdering her after Oakland police said they found biological and trace evidence suggesting that she is dead as well as blood evidence tying him to her death.
Palmer testified that the only time her son talked to her about Nina Reiser's disappearance was three days after she was last seen alive.
Palmer said she asked Hans Reiser about the circumstances of the last time he saw his wife, but said, "He didn't really tell me anything about it."
Palmer said that as far as she knows Hans Reiser never called anyone about his wife's disappearance or did any investigating on his own.
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Feb. 22 - BCN - Hans Reiser wanted a speedy preliminary hearing on charges that he murdered his wife Nina Reiser, but owing to his attorney's busy schedule, will have to wait at least until March 9 for the conclusion of those proceedings.
Hans Reiser's hearing, which began back on Dec. 11, was scheduled to conclude on Friday, but the last day of the hearing was postponed today until March 9 because his attorney, William DuBois, is involved in an unrelated murder trial that's running longer than expected.
The purpose of the hearing is so a judge can determine if there's enough evidence to order him to stand trial on charges that he murdered Nina Reiser, 31, who was last seen alive on Sept. 3.
Prosecutor Greg Dolge said today that he had hoped the hearing would conclude back in December and hopes it will finally end on March 9.
There's been testimony on parts of six days as well as short hearings on various issues on two other days.
DuBois said Reiser "is anxious to get it over with" and "has been giving me a hard time" because of the delays, so he said he's trying to explain to Reiser that court delays can't always be avoided.
The schedule of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger, who is presiding over Reiser's hearing as well as the murder trial in which DuBois is participating, also played a role in the latest delay, DuBois said.
Dolge said all that remains for the preliminary hearing are some stipulations about evidence DuBois wants to introduce into the record and brief closing arguments. He said he expects that Conger will rule immediately after the arguments.
Nina Reiser, who was trained as a gynecologist in her native Russia, was last seen about 2 p.m. on Sept. 3 when she dropped off the couple's two children at Hans Reiser's home at 6979 Exeter Drive.
Hans and Nina Reiser married in 1999 but separated in May of 2004. They were undergoing contentious divorce proceedings at the time she disappeared but the divorce wasn't finalized.
Nina Reiser was awarded both legal and physical custody of Rory and Nio, but Hans Reiser was allowed to have the children one weeknight a week and every other weekend.
Nina Reiser's body hasn't been found, but in October Hans Reiser was charged with murdering her after Oakland police said they found biological and trace evidence suggesting that she is dead as well as blood evidence tying him to her death. He's being held in custody without bail.
The children were placed in foster care after Nina Reiser disappeared.
Rory Reiser testified in the first day of his father's hearing and was scheduled to testify again on Jan. 16. But he didn't appear because he and his sister went to Russia over the holidays with Nina Reiser's mother, who is their grandmother, and didn't return.
Rory and Nio also failed to appear for a family court hearing on Jan. 24.
Dolge said the children are still in Russia as far as he knows.
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