[sllug-members]: A sad day

[Kurt Mahan]

Walt Haas wrote:
> u235sentinel wrote:
>> John M. Anderson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Jason R <jreverri at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> Okay guys, seriously, you need to check yourselves.  I use
>>>> reiserfs, it's a
>>>> great file system, but the guy killed his wife.  The two things
>>>> don't have
>>>> anything to do with each other.
>>>
>>> Prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
>>
>> I'll all full of doubts.  That's why I mentioned it :D
> The main source of doubt seems to be the lack of a body - everything
> else is consistent with murder.  Now it occurs to me that an engineer
> as talented as Hans would be able to think up a good way to make a
> body disappear, and since it's hard to get a murder conviction without
> a body, he might have felt that would be his best protection.  If he
> weren't as bright it might have been harder for him to hide the body.
>From what I've read it sounds like he dug his own grave in front of the
jury.  If he would have had a real (good!) lawyer maybe the lack of a
body would have made a difference.  And the lawyer might have been able
to prep Hans in explaining things like why he removed the passenger seat
from his car and hosed the car out leaving 1" of water in the bottom. 
(The excuse he gave was that he was sleeping in his car and needed the
room and for the car to be clean..)

--Kurt