Damn, what a soap opera this Reiser thing is turning out to be- not only does it read like a Murderer’s Guide To Yuppie/Hipster Life in the East Bay :
Palmer, an artist who was at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert when police say her son killed Nina
…
Prosecutor Hora showed jurors pictures of the Berkeley Bowl groceries found
in Nina Reiser’s van.
… but it also has an all-star cast:
- The Prosecutor is from the Sausage King trial, on which, incidentally, my friend Steve narrowly avoided jury duty… Summary: family business making great sausage falls behind the times and is required to update entire factory or close due to new cooking temperature regulations. Oh wait, there is a third option– shoot the health inspectors. Yeah unfortunately that really happened. Who knew the FDA would need bulletproof vests?
- The Defense is from the Gwen Araujo trial. Summary: That girl is hot. Oh, actually that’s a guy. Let’s kill her! The murderers only got 6 years in jail, likely only 3. As if that’s not horrific enough, Fred Phelps of “God Hates Fags” fame picketed Gwen’s funeral. What a classy guy. Phelps was just sued for $11M; hopefully that is just the first successful judgement.
- The Judge is from this awesome case where a
former couple sent to Death Row in 2002 for luring a Pleasanton student into a specially rigged van where they sexually tortured and strangled her before dumping her body on a snowy embankment.
It’s no dog mauling case, but it’s still totally Tom Wolfe over here. Sooo….
LILA: gotta love a murder trial w/o any body
LEWIS: what ever happened to the claims about her boyfriend being a serial killer?
BRAIN: so wait what happened to her body then?
LILA: they never found her
LEWIS: the circumstantial evidence seems pretty damning
CHIA: did they ever find scott peterson’s wife?
ERIC: yeah, she washed up by the richmond costco.
CHIA: nasty
ERIC: well, most of her, anyway.