Although Rasmussen’s father, Nels, pleaded with police to question Lazarus, they never did and she was never named as a suspect in the case, which went cold.
She was even suspicious that the two former lovers had not completely ended their relationship. Rasmussen had complained to relatives that she was being stalked and harassed by Lazarus, then a 29-year-old LAPD patrol officer. The incident happened much in the same way as another recent unsuccessful robbery in the neighborhood. At the time, homicide detectives believed Rasmussen had been killed after walking in on a home invasion, basing their assumption on stereo equipment that was moved around in the apartment. In February 1986, Ruetten, an engineer, returned home from work to find his new bride shot to death in their home, which had been ransacked. prosecutors have started the trial of Stephanie Lazarus, a former member of the city’s police force who worked her way up from street patrols to its elite art theft unit, for the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen, 29, a Van Nuys, Calif., nurse who had married Lazarus’ ex-boyfriend John Ruetten.
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Follow case of a Los Angeles-area murder that went decades without so much as a suspect has come to an ironic full circle that could result in a life sentence for a decorated, veteran LAPD detective.
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