the trail kept getting colder. in 1993 sherri s parents would pay for the bite mark for dna but the blaped lapd declined. she said we don t have a suspect. if we had a suspect we would have something to match. reporter: so the case set for another decade. in 2004 the lapd was conducting cases on cold cases and one of them was the murder of sherri rasmuss rasmussen. it took two months to find that saliva sample buried in a refrigeration unit. the saliva was still inside and the dna was just enough to blow this case wide open. in that lab report, it indicated that the suspect that
missing, as with her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was noge sign of the murd weapon t but detectives did recover two 38 caliber slugs and something else that caught the detective s tension. on the inside of sherri err left arm then found a bite mark and she swabbed that for a is a line va that could obtain to the killer. reporter: saliva that contained dna for anyone who bit sherri. remember, this was 1986, years before dna technology testing could arrive which could link a suspect to a w sample like this one so back then the dna wasn t much nahelp. but the swab was carefully packaged c and bundled with allf the other evidence. for now, detectives didn t have much elseec to work with. no eyewitnesses. no usable fingerprints. no cleare motive, except for
home invasion gone wrong. her bmw was missing. there was no sign of the murderer weapon. but detectives did recover two .38 caliber slugs and something else caught detecti detective s attention. on the inside of her left arm, there was a bite mark. a crime scene analyst swabbed the mark for saliva that could belong to the killer. reporter: dna of whoever bit sherry. this was before dna testing technology would arrive, that could link a suspect to a sample like this one. back then, the dna was not much help. but the swab was carefully packaged and bundled with all the other evidence. for now, detectives did not have much else to work with. no eye-witnesses. no useable fingerprints. no clear motive except the
wrong. sherri s bmw was gone, a present from john. there was no sign of the weapon, but detectives recovered t two .38-caliber slugs. and there was something else that caught detectives attention. on the inside of her left arm they found a bite mark. a crime scene analyst at the time went ahead and swabbed the mark for any possible saliva that could possibly belong to the killer. saliva that would contain dna from whoever bit sherri. remember, this was 1986. years before dna testing technology would arrive which could link a suspect to a sample like this one. so back then the dna wasn t much help. but the swab was carefully packaged and bundled with all the other evidence. for now, detectives didn t have much else to work with. no eyewitnesses, no usable fingerprints, no clear motive except the theory that this was
backing you up with xfinity home. demo at an xfinity store, call or go online today. years had passed, and no arrests had been made in the brutal 1986 slaying of nurse and newlywed sherri rasmussen, killed in her los angeles condo. the trail kept getting colder. in 1993, sherri s parents offered to have the saliva sample from that bite mark