look at an old lead. he just said it s a match a person no one would hav ever suspected of murder we were going to end this was suddenly suspect number one. perfect murder. almost hello welcome to dateline . she was a new bride marrie just three months, then she wa found murdered what happened to her remained mystery for decades partly because police told us the thief must have killed her during a break-in gone bad they discovered it wasn t murder, but a suspect whos trail right to their own front door here is josh mankiewicz with the smoking gun. february 1st, 2009. the detective arrived before dawn at the los angeles police department s van nuys station. i was tired i was tired. he had hosted a super bow party the night before and the beer had flowed freely that seemed to be a good da to have a cup of coffee an caught up on my reading. a couple of aspirin maybe he reached for a file sitting on his desk for months the file of sherri rasmu
parents offered to have th saliva sample the bite mark fo dna, and even pay for it, bu the lapd declined. she said we don t have suspect. if we had a suspect w would have something to match. the case sat for anothe decade. but then in 2004, th lapd was conducting cases on cold cases and one of them was the murder of sherri rasmussen it took two months to find tha saliva sample buried in a refrigeration unit. th envelope was tattered, label torn, but the saliva was still inside and the dna was jus enough to blow this case wid open in that lab report, i indicated that the suspect tha had bitten sherri rasmusse during the struggle was female a woman. not two male