I’ve been following the Hans Reiser trial and conviction for the murder of his wife, via Wired.com’s Threat Level column.
I was a little bit shocked to read (very early this morning, thanks in part to the huge iced coffee I drank earlier combined with tummy trouble caused by a plate of tasty-but-damaging General Tso’s Chicken) that he’s finally led the police to the corpse as part of a deal to broker a reduced prison sentence. Asperger’s Syndrome, my ass. The guy is a freakshow, and so are the other people (well, one other person) involved. I predict there will be a movie deal soon.
At least the Linux-geeks have something new to giggle about.
The thing that struck me most about the digging-up-of-the-body is that, apparently, one of Reiser’s lawyers was handcuffed to him while he searched for the shallow grave and when Reiser found it, he and the lawyer dug up the body together. Do they tell people in Law School, “Someday, you might have to dig up a corpse.” I wonder what the billable rate is on that?