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CBS to air special on slaying of Tarpon Springs doctor Steven Schwartz

 
A Forensic Science investigator with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, right, takes equipment to the scene of the homicide investigation. [Times files]
A Forensic Science investigator with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, right, takes equipment to the scene of the homicide investigation. [Times files]
Published Feb. 10, 2017

The bizarre case of Dr. Steven Schwartz is seeing the light of day again.

The doctor with a murky past who was brutally murdered in his Tarpon Springs home in May 2014 will be featured on CBS' 48 Hours.

Schwartz, 74, who maintained a practice in Dunedin, was accused of killing a man himself decades before he was found shot and stabbed at the base of a stairway in his mansion on May, 28, 2014.

BACKSTORY:Man charged in slaying of Tarpon Springs doctor blames victim's wife in TV interview

Anton Stragaj, a handyman who renovated Schwartz' many properties, was accused of killing the doctor. He faces a first-degree murder charge.

In the CBS special, Stragaj maintains his innocence and says it was the doctor's widow, Rebecca Schwartz, who killed her husband.

While she faces no charges in the slaying, Stragaj isn't the first to accuse Rebecca Schwartz.

The segment will air Saturday at 10 p.m.