Closing arguments begin in trial of US software programmer accused of killing his Russian wife

: A female parent missing since 2006 did not willingly abandon her children, a public prosecutor said as he summed up the trial of a software system computer programmer accused of killing his Russian-born wife.

A organic structure was never found, and Hans Reiser 's defence have suggested his married woman might be life secretly in her native Russia.

But in his shutting statement Tuesday, public prosecutor Alice Paul Hora said Nina Reiser would never have got left her children to inquire nighttime after nighttime where she was.

"Can you believe of anything more cruel?" Hora asked. "She wouldn't make that to those kids. It's vicious. It's cruel to make that to kids."

Nina Reiser, 31 at the time, hasn't been seen since dropping Rory, then-6, and Niorline, 5, off at Hans Reiser's house on Sept. 3, 2006. Today in Americas

Reiser, 44, known in scheduling circles for his ReiserFS computing machine data file system, states he had nil to make with Nina Reiser's disappearance. He testified that the last clip he saw her she was driving away from his house.

Hora, who is expected to go on his statement Wednesday, told jurymen they have got to reply three questions: Is Nina Reiser dead? Did Hans Reiser killing her? And, if so, was it homicide or manslaughter?

He began by giving his reply to the first question, detailing all the programs Nina Reiser had made that fall, arranging for day care for her children, landing a new occupation and studying for approaching medical exams. After she disappeared, government establish her U.S. and Russian passes at her home, along with 100s in cash.

Her abandoned minivan was establish with her bag inside, along with pokes of groceries, by that clip rotting, that she had bought before going to Hans Reiser's house.

"There's no uncertainty she's dead. That's what all this means," Hora said. The grounds may be circumstantial, he said, but "it's powerful. It's convincing. It's persuasive and it's the truth."

Hora also covered Reiser's behaviour after Nina Reiser went missing.

When a friend of Nina Reiser's called on the eventide of Sept. Five to state the female parent of two was missing and asked if Hans Reiser could assist with any information since he apparently had seen her last, Hans Reiser said he needed to speak with his lawyer, Hora said. He did not name Nina Reiser.

"He doesn't even trouble oneself to pick up the telephone and dial her figure once! Not once!" Hora said, his voice rising to a shout. "That's absolutely mind-boggling."

Meanwhile, the Honda CRX Reiser was driving at the clip went missing. "The exact same time. What a coincidence," Hora said.

When the auto was located two hebdomads later, the presence rider place was missing and the floor boards were soaked.

Reiser said he took the place out to do the auto more comfy to kip in and hosed down the flooring because it was dirty.

But Hora said the existent ground was the auto contained grounds linking Reiser to his estranged wife's murder.

"It's incredibly incriminating that that seat's missing," he said. "It's devastating, actually."

Hora portrayed Reiser as a adult male obsessed with a acrimonious divorcement battle, reading from an e-mail inch which Reiser described his estranged married woman as "evil." He noted that Reiser was experienced in judo and that Nina Reiser's blood was establish on a pillar near Reiser's presence door.

Authorities don't cognize everything that happened in the case, the public prosecutor said. They can't state how Nina Reiser was killed or where her organic structure is located, he said.

But, said Hora, "we cognize enough."

If convicted, Reiser confronts a upper limit sentence of 25 old age to life in prison.