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
two decades to give them tha closure. you feel better the most gratifying momen of my career i was extremely happy. said, i feel like i knew it al along. back in l.a., the lazarus family also got the news well, it was numbing. i m guessing that one of th things you said or thought was they got it wrong somehow. thi is a mistake absolutely. some error has been mad here yes. it will be cleared u by the end of the day, yeah. it didn t happen? didn t happen stephanie lazarus didn t go home that day after her arrest bail was set at $10 million. much higher than most murder cases. the judge considered he a flight risk, citing th strong case against her, and
started routinely routinel enough for lapd detectiv stephanie lazarus. she took th train to union station i downtown l.a. reporting for he normal shift that morning at police headquarters in parke center. after arriving stephanie was told to meet wit two detectives. the man sh didn t know from lapd s elit robbery homicide division, t help them interrogate a suspec involving some stolen art work which was stephanie s beat as detective. so lazarus went dow to a secured area in the basement to meet with her tw colleagues in a small intervie room. because it s part of the jail, all cops who enter her are required to give up thei guns. unarmed and unsuspecting lazarus didn t realize she was being recorded by an undercove camera i don t know if you know my partner.