Five days before the computer genius who killed his wife led police to her body, he was remorseless and angry in defense of his innocence.
By Stephen Elliott
July 9, 2008 | DUBLIN, Calif.
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Everything Hans said reinforced the image I already had of him. He wasn't interested in what was true, only in whether or not he had been treated fairly. There wasn't a shred of remorse in his body. He was a sociopath, incapable of caring about another human being. A narcissist. A manipulator who thinks everybody else is stupid. The strangest thing about this murderer is how he never gets away with anything. Nobody ever believes him but he keeps lying anyway. He's a genius who invented a new way to store information, supervised millions of lines of complex code, and he has no idea how he is being perceived. I wasn't interested in being his private investigator.
Since being found guilty, he had been trying to negotiate a deal for a reduced sentence in exchange for taking the police to Nina's remains. He wanted them to drop the charge from murder one to manslaughter, which the district attorney was unwilling to do. It doesn't seem to bother him that his two children would never know for sure what happened to their doting mother after they last saw her Labor Day weekend 2006, when they were only 4 and 6 years old.
Finally I cut him off. I said I could track down all these people he was talking about. What I found might or might not point to an unfair trial (I doubted it) or mean that his children shouldn't have been taken away from him. But it wouldn't mean the verdict was incorrect. Was there anywhere I should look that might hint at his innocence?
"If you're guilty of murder, who cares if the schoolteacher misremembers something?" I said. His lawyers stated that Hans was remorseful; that he was trying to make things right. I knew that wasn't true. He had maintained his innocence since being arrested in October 2006. I was the last journalist to interview him before his confession. He wasn't remorseful, he was angry. He still felt the world owed him something. more at link:
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