He just said its a match. A person no one would have 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 married just three months and she was found murdered. What happened to her remained a mystery for decades because police us thatfo theft mistaken killed during a breakin gone bad. They discovered it wasnt a murderd but a suspect whose trl led right to their own front door. Here is Josh Mankiewicz with p the smoking gun. February 1st, 2009, the detective arrived before dawn at the Los Angeles Police departments van nuys station. I was tired. I was tired. He had hosted a Super Bowl Party the night before and the beer had flowed freely. That seemed to be a good day to have a cup of coffee and caught up on my reading. A couple of aspirin . Maybe. Reporter he reached for a file sitting on his desk for months. Hi of Sherri Rasmussen shot to death in her condo a few miles prosecute whe
the prime of her career. reporter: ahthea kennedy was sherri s boss at the hospital and it originally hired her. we couldn t believe it, first of all. like how could someone do this? people crying. people upset. even the hospital was like a tomb, you know? so the loss was real pap panel. reporter: cher impsherri had married three months earlier to john ruetten. months after the wedding john found sherri sprawled dead. he was okayed. police determined this was a burglary turned violent. this was no accident. reporter:s yolanda mccleary
it s kind of a perfect storm of problems. he had the proliferation of high-powered weapons and crack cocaine hitting the streets and tremendous homicide rate and detectives are overwhelmed. reporter: in february of that year cops have their hands full with a heinous crime in the san fernando valley that was sprawling. 29-year-old sherri rasmussen had been brutally beaten and shot in her own home. no suspects and few clues. then a week later, a possible liter. former criminal variation yolanda mccleary was a consultant for nbc news. in the same vicinity, another woman was approached in her residence by two males at gun point, also involved a home invasion robbery situation, so police, early on, thought there was a possibility these two men might have something to do with the murder.