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Morning Cup of Murder

A Killer Tech Giant - December 19 2020

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

December 19th: Hans Reiser Born (1963) Money and power doesn’t always mean you're immune to the law. Or, at least, it shouldn’t. On December 19th 1963 a man was born who would grow up to become a successful business man in the tech world. A man whose wife would go missing and who thought his stature and finances would keep him from being a suspect. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: Wikipedia, Murderpedia, geekfeminism.wikia.org, wire.com, sfgate.com, phoronix.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

A cop of murder.

0:14.4

Money in power doesn't always mean you're immune to the law.

0:18.3

Or at least it shouldn't.

0:20.1

On December 19, 1963, a man was born who would

0:23.6

grow up to become a successful businessman in the tech world, a man whose wife would go missing

0:29.9

and who thought his stature and finances would keep him from being a suspect. So if you like your

0:36.6

coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:40.4

morning cup of murder.

0:46.3

Hans Thomas Reeser was born on December 19, 1963, and grew up in Oakland, California.

0:53.2

Hans was a bright boy, but his issue with authority and the

0:56.4

constant bullying he experienced caused him to drop out of school at just 13 years old. Despite this,

1:02.7

he was accepted into the University of California, Berkeley, at 15, and attended on and off

1:08.7

throughout the years before earning a BS in computer science at the age of 28.

1:13.7

He considered extending his education and pursuing a PhD, but ultimately decided against it for the same disdain for authority and rigid learning structure that he felt in junior high.

1:25.1

Instead, he worked in the computer field while working to create the

1:28.4

California-based software company, Nameses Inc. The company went on to create the Riser-Fs

1:34.8

computer file system, which led to the Linux kernel. Basically, in the tech world, he and his

1:39.6

company were considered a major success. And in 1998, he was about to work to make his personal life

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