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
one of the most extraordinary cases in lapd history. toto, were not in kansas anymore. a newlywed murdered months after her wedding. as she walked away, she gave me a big smile and and i lived in that smile for years. and all the time episode the killer was hiding in plain sight. no indication she was ever spoken to? no. then a new detective took a look at an old lead. he just said it s a match. a person no one would have 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 married just three months, then she was found murdered. what happened to her remained a 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 a murder, but a suspect whose trail right to their own front door. here is josh mankiewicz with the smoking gun. february 1st, 2009. the dete
pressed ruetten for more o their relationship which had started when they were bot students at u.c.l.a.. they dated on and off until john go engaged to sherri. but eve then.. even though you re convince the relationship that john had with stephanie lazarus overlapped with th relationship he had with his wife we know from john that ther was at least on one occasion where he was engaged that he was intimate with stephani lazarus. there was a lov triangle and stephanie lazarus had deep feelings for john ruetten, and may have had motive to harm sherr rasmussen. was sherri s killer a scorned lover or a jealous coworker we had two women on the lis who, in our opinion, had a motive to harm her debra, the nurse, and stephanie lazarus? correct a few weeks later, cops i northern california tracke down debra and secretly scoope up a sample of her trash which contained dna. it was sent t
may have had a motive to harm her. three of them we eliminated almost immediately for insufficient motive. but there were still two names left. one of them was a coworker. a woman named debra that worked with sherri rasmussen in the glendale hospital. this person of interest was later placed by sherri rasmussen in an official capacity and problems followed almost immediately after that. so, there was bad blood between them? there was a motive. debra had moved to northern california. nuttall asked local law enforcement to watch her and secretly try to snag a sample of her dna for comparison testing. in the meantime, nuttall learned more about the second woman. he contacted john ruetten, sherri s former husband and now remarried and living in san diego. john involved he had been involved in a dating relationship with stephanie lazarus. stephanie lazarus that was the other name on the short list of suspects. nuttall
pressed ruetten for more on their relationship which had started when they were both students at u.c.l.a.. they dated on and off until john got engaged to sherri. but even then. even though you re convinced the relationship that john had with stephanie lazarus overlapped with the relationship he had with his wife? we know from john that there was at least on one occasion where he was engaged that he was intimate with stephanie lazarus. there was a love triangle and stephanie lazarus had deep feelings for john ruetten, and may have had a motive to harm sherri rasmussen. was sherri s killer a scorned lover or a jealous coworker? we had two women on the list who, in our opinion, had a motive to harm her. debra, the nurse, and stephanie lazarus? correct. a few weeks later, cops in northern california tracked down debra and secretly scooped