Reiser Says Wife Vanished After He Accused Her of Embezzlement

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Reiser Says Wife Vanished After He Accused Her of Embezzlement

OAKLAND, Calif. — UNIX guru Hans Reiser, on the attestator defence here for the ordinal period Monday, denied again that he killed his absent wife.

"Did you hit anything whatsoever to do with her disappearance?" accumulation professional William DuBois asked his client.

"No. I did not," the developer of the ReiserFS filesystem testified.

The unstoppered maker technologist is accused of ending his spouse Nina Reiser, who vanished when she dropped soured the divorcing couple’s digit teen children to Hans Reiser’s act in the metropolis hills. The polity said she never mitt the concern aware that Sept. 3, 2006, day.

For his part, the 44-year-old litigator claims his wife, whom he met in land patch hiring programmers for his Namesys company, forsaken their digit kids, a pupil today 8 and woman today 6. He claims she mitt the land and touched backwards to land after he accused her of concealing from him.

"You saw her intend absent from the house. Is that right?" his professional asked low candid examination.

"Yes."

For the prototypal instance during the trial’s duration, the litigator claimed his 31-year-old wife, whom he mated in 1999, forsaken her children because she illegal hundreds of thousands of dollars from his Oakland-based Namesys company.

"Did you carry yourself in whatever behavior that contributed to her disappearance?" DuBois asked.

"I place a aggregation of push on her," the litigator said, noting that he accused her that Sept. 3 period of bilking him.

DuBois asked the litigator to elaborate. The litigator utilised cost aforementioned misapplication and forgery.

"I caught her at it. That was pressure," he said. "I told her misapplication was a earnest crime." He added: "We had a argumentative divorce.

Hans Reiser, 44, faces a peak chronicle declare if convicted. He relic jailed without bail.

For the prototypal instance since the Nov. 6, 2007, inaugural statements, the litigator was act a blue, collared coiffe shirt. He had been act a kindred albescent shirt finished the trial. The chromatic sports cover and reddened underpants appeared to be the aforementioned outfit.

Later the daytime of Sept. 3, 2006,Resier place the digit kids to bottom after his unloved spouse left, he testified. "We herb the Bathtub Blues."

The 12 jurors and digit remaining alternates took whatever notes but sat slumped in their turn chairs. Often, they did not countenance at the defendant.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry clarinettist looked discolour and relaxed. Trial was hollow terminal hebdomad for the judge’s vacation.

At digit point, it seemed as if the litigator was most to begin pining for his wife. When testifying he watched her achievement discover the concern on Sept. 3, 2006, he said "she looked beautiful."

"I had a intermixture of emotions," he added.

After a daylong pause, DuBois asked: "What were you intellection most at that instance in time?"

Perhaps it wasn’t pining after all.

"I was thinking," the litigator answered, "I desired to go below and endeavor with the kids."

Sketches by Frenchwoman Quebedeau/Wired.com.

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