Summary
In 1986, Sherri Mae Rasmussen was attacked, beaten and shot to death in her Los Angeles home. Her father, Nels Rasmussen, was convinced Sherri’s husband, John Ruetten, was not involved. For more than two decades, Nels tried to get the police to focus on John’s ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Lazarus, a decorated Los Angeles police detective. Detectives trailed Lazarus to obtain a DNA sample and the results were stunning: the DNA from Sherri’s bite mark and that of Stephanie Lazarus matched. “48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 5/26/2012. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:45.0 | It was a brutal crime scene. |
| 0:55.0 | Victim had been beaten, her face disfigured, there was blood on the carpet, blood on the walls. |
| 1:02.0 | The victim had been shot three times at close range. |
| 1:05.0 | Any one of those three shots could have killed her. |
| 1:14.0 | The victim was 29-year-old Sherry Rasmussen. |
| 1:17.0 | She was an up-and-coming nursing director at a hospital in Los Angeles |
| 1:22.0 | and had just recently been married. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm Joel Rubin. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Andrew Blanksdee. |
| 1:27.4 | We're police reporters with the Los Angeles Times. |
| 1:31.4 | Her killing came on the front end of a huge upswing of the murder rate in Los Angeles. |
| 1:36.0 | Her friends and family were devastated. |
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