the motive, and the opportunity to kill sherry rasmussen. she seemed obsessed with john and jealous of his new wife, was she the same person with the scary eyes who was stalking sherry. to nutall, it seemed to add up. especially when he considered this. sherry s purse and all its contents stolen during the crime, were recovered soon after the murder. except for one item inside. the only thing that to this day was never recovered was john and sherry s marriage certificate. after three months of intense investigation, nutall s team needed one a last piece of evidence that would clear detective lazarus or incriminate her. we needed a sample of stephanie lazarus s dna, our investigators were not cut out for undercover surveillance work. so, nutall finally brought l.a.p.d. s internal affairs
we really would like to know what happened. reporter: sherry s parents never thought it was a burglary. they knew that just weeks before the murder, sherry had several strange encounters. one as she dined in a restaurant, and thought a woman was watching her. she said, she has eyes that can see right through you. scary eyes. reporter: there was a run-in at the hospital where sherry worked. she went to sherry s office and said that if she could not is have john nobody could. reporter: most terrifying an encounter in sherry s own home and by now, she knew who the mystery woman was. she heard a noise and looked up and there was john s ex-girlfriend. reporter: how did she get in the house? we have no idea. reporter: john s ex-girlfriend appeared to be stalking sherry. yet sherry never mentioned the
exhaustively reviewing the original files and interviewing sherry s friends and family. it came clear to them that stefzny had the means, the motive and the opportunity to kill sherry. she seemed obsessed with john and jealous of his new wife. was she the same person with the scary eyes who had been stalking sherry? to the detectives it seemed to add up especially when he considered this. sherry s purse and all its contents stolen during the crime were recovered soon after the murder. except for one item inside. the only thing that to this day that was never recovered was john and sherry s marriage certificate. after three months of intense secretive investigation, the team needed one last piece of evidence that would either clear the detective or incriminate her. we needed a sample of her
appeared to be stalking sherry, yet sherry never mentioned the woman s name to her parents. instead, she told them not to worry. she told me, i want to see if i can t work this out myself. that conversation happened during a dinner celebrating sherry s 29th birthday. after ward her parents took sherry to the airport. as she walked away she turned and gave me a big smile and i ve relived that smile for years. less than three weeks later, sherry laid dead. they insist that early in the investigation they told the lead lapd detective about sherry s troubling encounters with john s ex- girlfriend. i told the detective, not once, but probably 15 to 20 times and he said, the trouble with you is you ve been watching too much tv.
original files and interviewing her friends and family. it became clear to them that stephanie lazarus had the means, the motive, and the opportunity. she seemed obsessed with john and jealous of his new wife. was she the same person with the scary eyes who had been stalking sherry? it seemed to add up. especially when he considered this, her purse and all it s contents stolen during the crime were recovered soon after the murder except for one item inside. the only thing to this day that was never recovered was john and sherry s marriage certificate. after three months of intense secretive investigation, his team needed one last piece of evidence that would either clear detective lazarus or incriminate her. we needed a sample of her dna. our investigators were not cut