case and they didn t listen to the family, those two things are not evidence of a cover-up. it wasn t that they didn t close the case. they didn t do anything to create a case. he says that in 1986, the detectives were protecting stephanie lazarus. they actively covered up the identity of the person who committed this crime. the rasmussen s lawsuit alleging a cover-up was dismissed in 2011. charlie beck was then the lapd chief and he spoke with us about the case. i can accept somebody that is unable to solve a crime that is solvable. i cannot accept somebody that covers up a crime or covers up an individual involved in a crime and i have no absolutely no indication that is what happened here. there is intoing to suggest they deliberately looked away from stephanie or not a road they didn t want to go down? i think it was a lack of ability, not an act to exclude stephanie.
yeah. yeah. i may have you know, i m thinking back now. you guys are bringing up all of these old memories. detectives turned up the heat. did you ever fight with her? you mean like fight? yeah. did you ever duke it out with her? no, i don t think so. you d remember that, right? that would be a pretty yeah, i think so. most of us can remember, without much difficulty, the number of fist fights we have had over the course of our lives. but while detective lazarus, at one point, answers no, when asked if she remembers attacking sherri or being attacked, at other points she can t recall if that happened. it doesn t sound familiar. i mean, what are they saying? i fought with her so i i getting the jump of the leap? they are saying, i fought her, so i must have killed her? i mean, come on. after about 45 minutes, lazarus realized she was the prime suspect in sherri s murder. now you re accusing me of this? is that what you re is that what you re saying?
mishandled and improperly stored and sealed which compromised the sample. the vile was protruding, rather than being inside the envelope and sealed in order to protect the integrity of the evidence. you can t rely on the scientific results. overland said that hair, blood, fingerprints found at the crime scene did not come from lazarus. as for the weapon the fired the fatal shots? he insisted several other types of guns besides stephanie that could have fired those bullets. as for motive? the defense argued there was no evidence that stephanie lazarus was obsessessed with sherri s husband, john. john was still calling her. and stephanie went to tell sherri, look, you guys are getting married, i d tell him not to call me. after five weeks, it was up to the jury. loretta and nels
detectives into the loop, hoping they could close the deal by somehow secretly obtaining lazarus dna. she was tailed for days, as undercover cops waited for her to leave some small piece of herself behind. finally, at a retail store it happened. lazarus ordered a soft drink and drank it. a trace of her saliva was on the straw, which she then tossed in the trash. it was more than enough for testing. two dna samples separated by two decades. 48 hours later, jim nuttall got call from his supervisor. it was real simple. he just said, it s a match. good feeling, bad feeling? both? surreal. that moment, that call, i ll never forget it. but stephanie lazarus was still free and had no clue after 23 years, her department was on her tail for murder. detectives wanted to speak to
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