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
i don t think they knew exactl what had happened other than that he was covered in blood she was just broken and lost there is a murderer out ther and it is terrifying it was supposed to be a anniversary celebration. 32 years together. they were in love even afte all those years. they were very happy together. suddenly, an intimate momen turn to infinite terror. i just heard, help, someone is in trouble. i was scared i was scared a husband found murdered in a closet a wife, tied up in another they found her on the groun with her hands by hundred back she had bruising on her arm and on her face. inconsolable. screaming, crying. who could be behind this? well their only daughte desperate for justice for he dad. be careful what you wish for everybody gasped. nobody could believe it. this terrifies me because this can happen to anybody. hello, and welcome to dateline she was his teenage crush, then, puppy love turned into a lifelong love affair event
this was a burglary or a hom invasion gone wrong. sherri s purse was missing, as was her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was no sign of the murde weapon, but detectives did recover two. 38 caliber slug and something else that caught the detective s attention. on the inside of sherri s left arm, they found a bit mark. a crime scene analys went ahead and she swabbed tha for saliva that could pertai to the killer. saliva that contained dna from whoever bit sherri. remember, this was 1986, years before dna technology testin would arrive, which could link a suspect to a sample like thi one. so, back then, the dna wasn much help. but the swab was carefully package and bundled with all o the other evidence for now, detectives didn t hav much else to work with. no eyewitnesses. no usabl
that he was in there was blood in the carpet. there was blood on a chair he, himself was very bloody. and the closet, but nowhere an else in the house was there an blood. to investigators we are thinking, home invader would ve dragged at least trace of blood on their way ou of the house but crime scene techs did no find any when the rest of the forensics came back, the findings ha limitations. reporter, amanda orr although you have the murde weapon, it s been washed and i water for several hours. kitchen knife kitchen knife a large kitchen knife. was found in the bathtub so, any dna that could hav been on it from the murderer was gone it was washed away what s more, no blood was detected on sandra in fact, no dna or fingerprint linked sandra to jamie somebody or jamie to sandra s and while detectives had a hunch about sandra, th evidence did seen didn t see quite there yet for an indictment as more time went by, it becam clear to members of sandra s