

With his children asleep in bed, Hans Reiser stole away from his home two nights in a row to dig his wife's grave, while her body sat in a duffel bag in his car.

That's one of the details to emerge in this grisly 34-page transcript (.pdf) of Reiser's belated August 21 confession to prosecutor Paul Hora. An excerpt is below. One note: it becomes unpleasant after the jump.

HORA: First of all, did you use shovels to dig the hole or picks or?

A: I used a shovel.

Q: Ok. It didn't look like the kind of hole you could dig with your bare hands? I mean if you, part of it yes, but so you did use a shovel. Where is the shovel?

A: Uhm, I don't think I can find the spot. I threw it away.

Q: Can you describe for me sort of where? Best you can, where the shovel is.

A: I think, I think I threw the backpack in, you know, I threw it all in various garbage things. One of the garbage places I remember was actually the park near where you guys found the CRX.

Q: Ok. The uh, when you left Nina's van on Fernwood, uhm, did you ...

A: But I was like, you know, I would try to put not so much that anybody would pay attention to and anyone would recover (unintelligable).

Q: What, if anything, did you ever do to Nina's purse or any items inside of her purse? You might, that might include ...

A: Not a thing. I was going to come back.

Q: All right.

A: You guys picked up the minivan one day too early.

Q: Ok. What about her cellphone?

A: Yeah. I removed the cover on it and pulled out the battery.

Q: Ok. Did you do that while the purse was still at your house or did you not think of that until you dropped it off on Fernwood? Do you remember when you did that? That's what I was getting at, did you take the battery out and you said you did.

A: Uhm, I removed the battery while the minivan was in the driveway but exactly at what time of night, I can't tell you.

Q: But you left the van in your driveway all night?

A: Yeah.

Q: Uhm, and instead because you lost the keys to the van ...

A: I was worried that I wouldn't find the keys and I would have to have it towed.



A: Uhm-hmm. That would have made life easier for us Because if you would have had tow records that might have made it quicker. But uh, the ...

A: It could have been a faster trial.

Q: Yeah, well, hindsight is 20/20, as they say. Uhm, let me ask you more, a little bit more specifically. You said you, basically you said you killed Nina in what I would call the living room of Exeter. I mean it, I know there is a hallway there.

A: No. I killed her on the stairs. ,,,,,

Q: You killed her on the stairs themselves?

A: Yeah.

Q: The stairs that go from the 2nd Floor where the living room is, the main and ...

A: Uh-huh.

Q: . . . the kitchen floor and then there's a set of stairs that goes to the bedroom?

A: Yeah.

Q: The garage level?

A: Yeah.

Q: She was on those stairs when you killed her?

A: Yes.