When Anger Twists To Murder - September 13 2025

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🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.9	A cup of murder.
0:15.0	Anger is a powerful motivator.
0:18.3	On September 13th, 2002, a man was killed by someone incredibly angry.
0:25.1	A man whose potential suspect list was long, but in the end, anger was the only possible
0:31.1	motivator. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning
0:38.4	cup of murder. On September 15, 2002, Steve Taser of Bakersfield, California was found dead
0:47.4	inside of his garage. Stabbed repeatedly in the head by someone who very clearly wanted him dead.
0:56.6	Problem was, Steve Tazer had a lot of enemies.
1:01.7	The eldest of 14 children, a role model to his sisters, a lifelong bachelor,
1:07.6	and the uncle of more than 25 nieces and nephews, Steve was incredibly loved by his
1:13.5	family and friends. He was also well respected by nearly every police officer and lawyer living
1:19.7	in the area. That's because for the last almost two decades, Steve Tauser served as an assistant
1:25.8	district attorney with Kern County and spent the last
1:29.4	30 years working cases in which some of the most dangerous offenders were placed behind bars.
1:37.4	Though he earned himself a reputation for loaning out money or giving money to friends and those in need,
1:43.3	saving people who he thought needed
1:45.0	saving and trying to make things right whenever he could. His decades of work created quite
1:52.6	the list of enemies, a list that police now needed to worry about and treat as a suspect
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