The Murder of Sherri Rasmussen: The Detective Who Hid a Secret for 23 Years
In 1986, 29-year-old nurse Sherri Rasmussen was found murdered inside her Los Angeles home.
Investigators initially believed she had been killed during a burglary gone wrong. The case slowly went cold, and for more than two decades, no one was held responsible.
But one piece of evidence remained.
A bite mark.
Years later, advances in DNA testing revealed something investigators had overlooked: the biological material belonged to a woman.
That discovery led detectives back to a name that had been mentioned long before — Stephanie Lazarus, a former girlfriend of Sherri’s husband and…
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