64: CASE | The Murder of Sherri Rasmussen
Avery After Dark
Avery Ross
4.8 • 746 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On February 24th, John Ruetten returned home to find his wife Sherri dead on the floor of their Los Angeles condo. She had been beaten & shot 3 times
The crime scene suggested a long struggle and the condo was in complete disarray. Stereos & TV's were ripped from the walls
Police believed this was a robbery gone wrong. Although her murder was investigated, police weren't able to ID Sherri's killer and her case went cold for decades
It wasn't until 2009 when DNA linked the case to someone Sherri's family had been urging police to look into for years. Finally, an arrest was made and Sherri's killer was revealed to be someone that NO one expected...
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| 0:00.0 | Her killer was the absolute last person you would ever expect. |
| 0:20.0 | When Sherey Rasmussen, a young newly married woman was |
| 0:23.7 | found murdered in her home in 1986 in Los Angeles, police judged the crime scene and chalked it up |
| 0:30.4 | to be a robbery gone wrong. They began their investigation as usual and found that although it |
| 0:36.4 | appeared to be a burglary, nothing was stolen from |
| 0:39.9 | inside the home except Sherry's BMW and her marriage certificate. And strangely, on Sherry's arm, |
| 0:47.3 | there was an apparent bite mark left from her killer. Odd for a supposed break-in. Police look into |
| 0:53.7 | Sherry's husband, John Rutton, but he had a rock-solid alibi. |
| 0:57.4 | He was at work at the time of the murder, and there was no indication he would ever want to hurt his wife. |
| 1:02.9 | Police attempted to follow up with the robbery theory, looking into similar cases in the area, |
| 1:08.6 | but authorities weren't able to ID Sherry's killer. And the case went |
| 1:13.0 | cold for over 20 years, but Sherry Rasmussen's family knew who the killer was from day one. |
| 1:20.6 | They knew this was not a burglary, but rather it was only staged to appear as a robbery to throw |
| 1:26.2 | off police. The killer was someone Sherry knew and feared. |
| 1:31.2 | The murderer had been stalking Sherry in the months leading up to her death, |
| 1:35.1 | and this person was a prominent, trusted, and powerful figure in the community, |
| 1:40.7 | an individual that took an oath to protect. |
| 1:43.8 | Sherry's murderer was the absolute last person that many suspected. |
| 1:49.0 | And when this individual was later identified decades later, it shocked everyone. |
| 1:55.4 | This is Avery After Dark, and I'm your host, Avery Ross. |
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