WHAT WAS HANS DOING?
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WHAT WAS HANS DOING ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 18th?
About this time, a team of officers spotted Reiser jogging in the dark in the hilly area facing the oncoming traffic on a different road not far from highway 13. Hans was looking around and appeared to be carrying something. Racing ahead, the officers arrived at the Exeter house to find that a red Toyota rental car that had been parked there earlier was gone, and that Hans was not home.
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WHAT WAS HANS DOING ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 18th?
Late yesterday and earlier today, the jury heard OPD officers describe Reiser’s strange pattern of behavior during his surveillance on a September evening.
The key date was September 18th, 2006 the day that the CRX was recovered and towed to a police yard – two weeks after Nina’s disappearance.
This incident may be significant because Hans may not have known he was being watched at the time. The story begins when an aircraft surveillance officer spotted Reiser parking his CRX that evening on Monterey Blvd. near Highway 13. Hans was seen entering and re-entering the hatchback several times, moving objects around.
An undercover officer on the ground also apparently witnessed Hans parking the CRX along the street parallel to Highway 13 in the Oakland hills. While the officer watched, Hans approached a taxi and seemed to get inside. This was apparently a ruse. Police began to follow the empty taxi to the Oakland Airport, only to learn that Hans had not gotten in after all.
Back at the parked CRX, Police approached the empty vehicle, noted the missing seat and planted a tracking device on it. Hans did not return to the vehicle. The car was secured that evening, then later towed to a police lot where technicians would go through it top to bottom.
About this time, a team of officers spotted Reiser jogging in the dark in the hilly area facing the oncoming traffic on a different road not far from highway 13. Hans was looking around and appeared to be carrying something. Racing ahead, the officers arrived at the Exeter house to find that a red Toyota rental car that had been parked there earlier was gone, and that Hans was not home.
Another surveillance incident took place, ten days later when it was obvious that police were “on Reiser’s case”. But Reiser’s behavior, though evasive, was hardly remarkable.
Yesterday’s contretemps about the “message” on Mark’s computer that police captured was anticlimactic. Hans was railing on the web about the evils of the family court system. We’ve heard that before and it hardly distinguishes him from hundreds of other males caught up in similar marital conflicts.
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What this all boils down to is that Hans is very plausibly portrayed as wanting to keep the CRX out of the hands of the police. Coupled with his – so far unexplained - removal of the passenger seat, the washing down incident on the very night Nina vanished and his misrepresentations and evasions to Mom about the vehicle, the jury is being invited to draw the obvious sinister implications.
If he is guilty, Hans has done a fairly clever job of effacing the blood evidence from the CRX. But some identifiable blood - belonging to Nina -remained, even after all that washing and the seat removal.
Was Hans Reiser too clever by half?
Stay tuned…
