In it, his father was carrying " somebody " down the dark stairs in a sack. The boy drew an elementary picture of it, which was displayed to jurors. During his testimony, the boy got on the floor in a ball to suggest how a body might have been in the bag. All 12 jurors craned their necks to see the dark-haired boy below them on the carpet.
The children called their parents by their first names. The defendant led authorities Monday through thick brush and trees to Nina's grave site about a half a mile from his house. The body was found in what one of his attorneys described as a duffel bag. Not all testimony from the dozens of witnesses has become clear now.
But we have more room to speculate. Why did the defendant drive four hours to Reno, Nevada -- to eat "buffet food," as he described it -- after killing Nina? Maybe he was looking for a better place to bury the body, perhaps in the Sierra Nevada wilderness area separating California and Nevada. We also don't know how he killed her, at least not publicly.
Sources close to the case have told a host of news outlets, including Threat Level, that he strangled her. But none of the sources would go on the record.
During the trial, prosecutor Hora suggested that Reiser, a black belt in judo, choked her. Choking is a bread-and-butter move in that martial art. That there is now a body also does not tell us why Hans killed Nina. But he seemed to offer jurors an explanation when he rambled from the stand for 11 sessions, even as he claimed he was innocent. The divorce courts were against him," he testified. He was in arrears for child support; Nina was making up illnesses for their boy; she stole from his company; she had an affair with his best friend.
Hora told jurors he had " motive coming out of his ears. And with Nina's body recovered, we can better see what strange waters Judge Larry Goodman, the attorneys, the jury and the gallery navigated during six months of trial. Perhaps some of the most bizarre testimony came from a next-door neighbor. Two nights after Nina went missing, he saw the defendant hosing down his driveway late at night, in the boiling Indian summer heat dressed in heavy clothing, "a hunting jacket or something.
The neighbor said it was unusual, because he has never seen anybody cleaning the driveway over the years he's lived there. But fights about how those children were being raised were at the center of a marriage that began to crumble. Doren said she was witness to the emotional disputes. Reiser, whose work kept him overseas in Russia for months at a time, wanted more children and did not want Nina returning to work as a doctor. She divorced me the day she became a citizen. I don't know whether it was the exact day but same month -- close enough," he said.
Reiser also said that Nina, who ran the finances for the family computer business, was embezzling money. Ramone Reiser, Reiser's father, believes "there's no question" Nina purposely got pregnant before the marriage. She took off and left him.
When asked if there were other factors that contributed to the division in their marriage, Reiser replied, "Well, she slept with my best friend. Hans believes that his childhood friend Sturgeon introduced his wife to drugs and exotic sex in a twisted act of revenge. He's here to take care of you. Whatever you need, go ask Sean,'" said Doren, adding that she never worried that Sturgeon was involved in Nina's disappearance. Sturgeon won't talk publicly until after the trial, but after Nina's disappearance he made a bold confession to police, so outrageous that the judge won't allow it to be mentioned in court.
He claims to be a serial killer, but said he is not responsible for Nina's death. The morning of her disappearance, Nina took her two children grocery shopping and then headed to her mother-in-law's house, where Reiser was to take the kids for the rest of the Labor Day weekend.
Nina had plans to spend the evening with her best friend. Doren called Nina's cell phone every half an hour through the night, and by Monday morning she was panicked. Doren said that on Tuesday, before anyone knew for sure that Nina was missing, Reiser made a rare appearance at the children's school and told the school to get in touch with him in case of trouble. Nina normally took care of that. Hora said Reiser then put Nina's body in a duffel bag and took it up to a bathroom on the upper level.
Hora said that night, while the children slept, Hans put Nina's body inside his Honda Civic CRX and drove to an isolated area nearby, where he spent all night digging a grave. Hora said the Honda Civic CRX was a key focus in Reiser's trial, as its right front passenger seat was missing when police found it in the Oakland hills a short distance from his house, on Sept.
Recalling that a neighbor testified that he saw Reiser thoroughly hosing off his car after Nina disappeared, Hora said Reiser did so because Nina's body was inside the car for two days.
In his statement on Aug. Then I decided just to be paranoid and throw away the seat. Reiser said Nina's comments to him on Sept. And I shouldn't have. I'm very sorry that I did it.
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