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   From: brick.n.straw@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:33:06 -0400, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:32:38 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:   
   >   
   >> There sure seems to be a heck of a lot of circumstantial evidence for   
   >> Reiser's guilt.  However, there's one thing troubling about that.  Let's   
   >> assume for a moment that Reiser did it.   
   >>   
   >> He clearly was not very good at it, then.  He made a lot of mistakes   
   >> (which left a lot of that circumstantial evidence).  In fact, he made   
   >> errors in nearly every step of his plan.   
   >>   
   >> So, where's the body?  Disposing of a body is not easy.  Given all the   
   >> other steps he botched, it seems kind of incredible that he managed to   
   >> dispose of the body so well.   
   >   
   > Maybe he was actually very intelligent, and he deliberately made those   
   > mistakes to give him an alibi?  "Why would I do that, I'd know i'd get   
   > caught!"   
   >   
   > He's a very good programmer, which means he pays attention to the tinyest   
   > detail.  Though that doesn't always transfer to real-life.  Also, he might   
   > have assumed he was so smart, and the police so incompetant that they'd   
   > never find the evidence.   
   >   
   > The real question here, in my mind, is whther or not a borderline   
   > personality is being railroaded simply because he's different.  Simply   
   > because he acts different from a normal murder suspect.   
   >   
   > I don't know...   
      
   I'll bet a guy like Reiser would drive the FBI profiler's crazy.   
      
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