![]() ![]() Image Credit: That Chapter/YouTubeīurglaries had taken place on that very street two days after the incident where an unsuspecting woman was held at gunpoint by two Latino men. This was followed by John (who had repeatedly called home that day and received no answer) returning home and finding his garage door open, glass broken, Sherri’s silver BMW gone, and his wife dead on the living room floor. It has also been reported that Stephanie once landed at Sherri’s place of work to threaten her by saying, “If I can’t have John, no one else will.” On the afternoon of February 24, 1986, sounds of disputes were heard by a maid working nearby the Ruetten residence. Numerous events precede the actual event of the crime, where Sherri complained about feeling uncomfortable by a jealous and imposing Stephanie who showed up to their house uninvited. Stephanie, who later became a part of the LAPD, was dejected when she learned that John was in a serious relationship with a 29-year-old nursing administrator Sherri Rasmussen. All the gunshots were fatal, he said.As undergraduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles, John and Stephanie shared the same dorm floor and occasionally dated during and after their graduation. ![]() Rasmussen suffered a bite on the arm and was shot three times, including in the heart and spine, he said. ![]() Taylor said the fatal attack involved a struggle that moved around the condominium. Rasmussen married Ruetten in November 1985 and she was killed the following February.Īttorneys for Rasmussen’s father and mother said outside court that the parents want answers to why it took so long for police to pursue Lazarus as a suspect after they had told detectives about several confrontations between their son-in-law’s ex-girlfriend and their daughter, a nursing director at Glendale Adventist Medical Center.Īttorney John Taylor said that when the father persisted in asking police what they had found out about the ex-girlfriend, “He was told repeatedly that he’d been watching too much TV.” The case file did mention Lazarus because she had previously dated the victim’s husband, John Ruetten. Police officials have said Lazarus was not a suspect in 1986 because detectives believed that two robbers who had attacked another woman in the same neighborhood were to blame. I don’t know if he’s been interviewed yet, but he will be, as will a lot of people,” he said. Lazarus’ husband, Scott Young, a detective in the San Fernando Valley, knew nothing about the slaying, Beck said. “There was a significant struggle that preceded the homicide,” he said. Lazarus, a specialist in investigating art thefts, was arrested last week after colleagues in the homicide unit across a hallway at police headquarters examined the long-cold case and made what they say was a DNA match. Lazarus, 49, is accused of killing Sherri Rasmussen, who was bitten, beaten and shot in her condominium in 1986, when Lazarus had been on the police force for two years. He was not available for comment afterward. Her attorney, Mark Pachowitz, asked only for the delay. She appeared to chat amiably with sheriff’s deputies guarding her as she stood behind a glass partition in the courtroom waiting for the proceeding, which lasted about two minutes. ![]() A veteran Los Angeles police detective was brought to court Tuesday in an orange jail jumpsuit to face a capital murder charge alleging she killed an ex-boyfriend’s wife 23 years ago when she was a young officer.ĭetective Stephanie Lazarus calmly answered, “Yes, your honor,” when Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau asked if she agreed to have her arraignment continued to July 6. ![]()
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