http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...-guilty-o.html

Hans Reiser was found guilty of the murder of his estranged wife with whom he was fighting over child custody in a messy divorce.
There was no body, and no murder weapon, only a TON of circumstantial evidence.

For those who don't know Hans, he is a brilliant programmer responsible for a linux filesystem (ReiserFS) but he is also extremely arrogant and condescending, paranoid and with as much street smarts as rain man. He managed to insult the judge and jury several times.

It could still have gone either way until he decided to ignore his lawyer's advice, and took the stand himself for 9 days.
Up there, he was not only his arrogant self, but he was found to lie (and admitted as much) and produced the wildest explanations possible for the holes in his story.
In short, he was his own worst enemy.

I am not going to present any of the evidence or testimonies, because there are too much (see like for court proceedings). For all the evidence presented I think he was guilty, and would have been able to get away with it as well if he hadn't shot himself in both feet several times with a shotgun.

One of the major reasons I think he did it is that I don't think any mother who loves her children would leave them with someone like Hans. Especially since she was fighting custody battle to get them.