Calif. software programmer explains wife's blood stains as his murder trial resumes

: A software system computer programmer accused of killing his estranged Russian-born married woman sought to explicate why discolorations of her blood were establish at his place after she disappeared.

After a weeklong hiatus, Hans Reiser, 44, appeared Tuesday on the base for his 8th twenty-four hours of testimony at his homicide trial in Alameda County Superior Court. He is charged with killing Nina Reiser, who was last seen dropping their two children off at his house in the Oakland Hills in September 2006.

Reiser is known in scheduling services as the Godhead of the ReiserFS computing machine data file system.

Asked about the blood stains, Reiser said she had cut her manus while cookery and had a epistaxis when they were handing off the kids. He said both incidents took topographic point during summertime 2006.

Prosecutors aver Reiser killed his 31-year-old wife around the Labor Day vacation in September 2006 amid a awful detention dispute, used his mother's Honda CRX to dispose of the organic structure and then cleaned the vehicle to acquire quit of evidence. Her organic structure have never been found, but they state deoxyribonucleic acid and other grounds point to Reiser. Today in Americas

The defence have suggested that Nina Reiser may still be alive and life in her native Russia, where the children are now living with their maternal grandmother. The estranged couple met in Soviet Union in 1998.

On Tuesday, public prosecutor Alice Paul Hora continued to inquiry Hans Reiser about the last clip he saw his married woman and his actions in the years and hebdomads after she went missing.

Reiser testified that his married woman visited for one to two hours when she dropped off the children on the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2006. He cooked macaroni and cheese and spaghetti for them; then he and his married woman discussed their divorcement legal proceeding while the children played downstairs.

Hora also asked Reiser about why he removed a piece of the car's inside that covered the dorsum of the Honda hatchback.

Reiser said he took out the natural covering because it had started to odor after milk was spilled on it. He said he was going to utilize plyboard and futon stuff to build a bed in the auto before police force confiscated it.

"I decided to repair the auto up the manner I always wanted to repair it up," Reiser said. "It's kind of a male thing to desire to have got a bedroll for your Equus caballus or a topographic point to kip in your car."

Asked what he did with the covering, Reiser said that he tossed it in the rubbish but that he could not retrieve where or when he threw it away.

When police force establish the car, the presence rider place had been removed.

Reiser previously testified that he had taken out the place to do the auto more comfy to kip in.