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
lapd. here is josh mankiewic with more of the smoking gun. for two decades, the lapd had but one narrative fo sherri rasmussen s murder. tha she was killed by a botche burglary. as science rewrote the script, this cold case suddenly was almost too hot to handle. the prime suspect was lapd detective stephanie lazarus. but as jim nuttal went through the murder book he found almost nothing on lazarus, even though she was the ex-girlfriend of the husband of sherri rasmussen. there was only one notation in the criminology in 1986. a detective had written stephani lazarus, p. o., police officer as if her name had come up, bu not as a suspect. no notes o any conversation with her? no paper trail. she seemed to be someon above suspicion. stephanie ilene lazarus had grown up i southern, california, a tomboy of sorts and loved sports. she attended u.c.l.a. where sh played basketball. it wa during her college days that
may have had a motive to har her. three of them w eliminated almost immediatel for insufficient motive. but there were still tw names left. one of them was coworker a woman named debra tha worked with sherri rasmussen i the glendale hospital. thi person of interest was later placed by sherri rasmussen i 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 loca law enforcement to watch her and secretly try to snag a sample of her dna fo comparison testing. in the meantime, nuttall learned more about the second woman. he contacted john ruetten sherri s former husband and no remarried and living in sa diego. john involved he had been involved in a dating relationship with stephani lazarus. stephanie lazarus that was the other name on the shor list of suspects. nuttal
burglars, as the origina detectives had suspected all those years. but it would take a few more years befor investigators began to understand what that crucial dna test result meant. it wa now 2009, and the case was col once again. 23 years it sa with no apparent leads, no suspects, and no answers for the rasmussen family. then cam that monday after the supe bowl when detective jim nuttal started peeking through that old case file and made a remarkable discovery. the dn test that had been conducted o that bite mark back in 2004. once the department realized a woman was involved, why did it take four years until yo finally picked it up? what was the department doing in th interim? from what it appears, investigators may have followe
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