A Detective Asked If They Were Bringing the Suspect In. She Was the Suspect.

On June 5, 2009, an LAPD detective was asked to come downstairs and help interview a man about an art theft. She asked her colleagues if they were bringing somebody in. They weren't. Nine days earlier, undercover officers had taken a drinking straw she threw away. This is the case of Sherri Rasmussen, killed in her Van Nuys home in February 1986 - a murder police spent most of 23 years attributing to burglars they never found - and of Stephanie Lazarus, the Los Angeles police detective convicted of her murder in 2012. The account of that night kept changing. The bite mark on Sherri's arm never did. Chapters 0:00 The tape 1:05 A murder staged as a burglary 2:06 The wrong story 2:46 2004: the swab in the freezer 3:27 2005-2009: the list 5:23 The interrogation 9:58 Arrest and verdict 10:38 2025: the account changes If this file kept you watching, like the video and subscribe - more files are coming. ------------------------------ SOURCES Interrogation footage (5 June 2009): LAPD interview of Stephanie Lazarus, played as an exhibit at her 2012 trial; via Trials & Tribulations. News footage: ABC News Nightline (11 July 2009) | AP Archive (9 June 2009). Used for commentary and criticism. Photos (Wikimedia Commons): "Los Angeles Skyline at Night" - BrianLiao - CC BY 2.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Los Angeles at night" - Stephen Friday - CC BY 2.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Los Angeles County Coroner's Building 2" - Tedder - CC BY 3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Los Angeles County Coroner's Building 5" - Tedder - CC BY 3.0 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Parker Center front 2004" - Jeff Costlow - public domain - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... "Van Nuys Boulevard Street Scene" - Cbl62 - public domain - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Licenses: CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... All Commons photos were cropped and given a slow zoom. Facts: People v. Lazarus, California Court of Appeal (2015) | ABC News (2009, 2024) | Associated Press (2009, 2012) | NBC News | NBC Los Angeles (trial coverage, 2012) | CBS News | CNN | LAist | MyNewsLA (12 Feb 2025) | trial coverage by Trials & Tribulations. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted of first-degree murder in March 2012 and sentenced to 27 years to life. Statements by the victim's family are presented as their own accounts. ------------------------------ #TrueCrime #ColdCase #Interrogation