283: Stranger than Fiction: Sherri Rasmussen, Part 2
Corpus Delicti
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🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone is Jen, and this is Lindsay. |
| 0:26.4 | And welcome back to Corpus Delecti, the podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | We are in part two, the final part of our Lazarus story. |
| 0:34.8 | But this is also, we're still going really strong than Stranger Than Fiction. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, it's interesting this series because we've both hit points where we're like, |
| 0:44.6 | oh, I'm having trouble finding like really weird ones, but then we'll find five in a row. |
| 0:50.1 | It's like something or nothing. But this is part two. So if you are just now joining us and you have not listened to the one before this, you are going to want to do that. |
| 0:58.5 | So husband and wife team, husband prior to meeting Sherry, his wife, he has a kind of like a situation, a hookup, a friends with benefits situation with one of the girls that he went |
| 1:12.8 | to college with. And this lady who he went to college with, Stephanie Lazarus, actually gets |
| 1:19.0 | into the LAPD, and this is her whole personality. Being a cop later detective, also work in |
| 1:26.6 | internal affairs, this is her lifestyle john's wife was brutally |
| 1:31.9 | murdered in their home and the dad and mom of sherry just absolutely is screaming at the top of their |
| 1:40.1 | lungs hey look at stephanie lazarus look at her because this does not add up. Unfortunately, |
| 1:47.0 | at the time, the detectives were like, no, burglary case closed. Speed forward through right now. |
| 1:53.7 | DNA is pinpointed that Stephanie is now suspect number one. All of the detectives that were in that era, |
| 2:04.4 | in that precinct, they have all who worked the case if since retired or moved on. So it's a good |
| 2:11.0 | opportunity to open up these old cases. And the DNA match that they found on her was based on |
| 2:15.9 | a bite mark that was on Sherry's arm. |
| 2:18.2 | They pulled DNA from it, |
| 2:19.2 | but they could not test it until years later. |
| 2:22.2 | So that's where we are going to pick up. |
| 2:24.5 | Once that DNA matched, |
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