Apparently he's been in prison for murdering his wife since 2008

Oh I remember when that whole thing went down. It caused quite the buzz on Slashdot.

...but now I'm struggling to remember how many times I've logged into Slashdot in the past 10 years...

The webcomic "Everybody Loves Eric Raymond" got a bit of mileage out of it. https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/hans-reiser

about as often has Reiser has...