On a hot summer day, dozens of men were outside in the yard. But KTVU reporter Amber Lee found Hans Reiser inside.

The 46-year-old convicted killer came out of his cell wearing a straw hat. He looks much different than he did two years ago when Amber Lee spoke with him at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin shortly after he was convicted of first degree murder for killing his estranged wife Nina.

When asked if he's having any trouble with the other inmates, Reiser says, "Well, doesn't every inmate have trouble with other inmates?"

Prison officials told us he receives no special treatment. Amber Lee spoke with an inmate housed in the same building as Reiser. Inmate Ron Fritchey says Reiser "stays to himself . doesn't really socialize with anybody just a real loner type guy."

When Reiser made a deal with the prosecution to reveal where he buried Nina's body, he waived the right to appeal. Still he spends much of his days in prison here handwriting legal files such as this one in hopes of getting a new trial.

"What I'm most sorry about is that I had anything to do with that lawyer," says Reiser.

Reiser now says he wants the public to know his defense lawyer William Dubois was ineffective. Dubois blames Reiser for his own predicament.

"Where your client won't follow your advice or even defer to it occasionally you're in for a hard time," says Dubois.

On April 28th, 2008, a jury convicted Reiser. His wife, Nina, disappeared in September 2006 after dropping off their two children at the home where Reiser was staying. Before the trial started Judge Larry Goodman offered Reiser a three year sentence to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter. With time served, Reiser would soon have been a free man. But he rejected the offer. Reiser told us now he didn't think at the time it was a good deal.

Reiser now says he regrets not taking the deal. He is now serving 15 years to life.

Only after Reiser's conviction did he make a deal leading law enforcement to the Oakland hills location where he buried Nina's body in exchange for reducing his sentence to second degree murder.

"In the most unsophisticated chokehold that any judo instructor would completely despise you forever using, I choked her," confessed Reiser on August 21, 2008.

Deputy District Attorney Paul Hora prosecuted Reiser. In his office is a photo of Reiser at Nina's burial site. Hora uses the case to teach law enforcement seminars.

"The lesson is that it takes a giant amount of resources on the part of law enforcement," says Hora.

This spring at the Alameda County Superior courthouse, Nina Reiser's mother legally adopted Reiser's two children. She's raising them in Russia and is suing Hans Reiser for wrongful death. Reiser said in a court filing he was defending his children from their mother.

San Francisco Chronicle reporter Henry Lee covered Reiser's trial and wrote a book on the case, titled "Presumed Dead."

Lee says Reiser was "just trashing (Nina), ruining her reputation."

Reiser is not likely to see his children soon and perhaps never again.

"I hope they'll come and see me. I hope they'll write to me," says Reiser. When asked by KTVU reporter Amber Lee if they have, Reiser says, "No. But they're ten years old."

Reiser will be eligible for parole in 2021 when he will be 57 years old.