Stephanie Lazarus

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In 1986, Stephanie Lazarus was an LAPD officer who murdered her ex-boyfriend's wife, Sherri Rasmussen. Lazarus was still infatuated with her ex, John Ruetten, and decided to execute the woman she thought was her romantic rival. She used her police training to make the murder look like a robbery.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the murder of Sherri Rasmussen committed by Stephanie Lazarus. From the start, police were stuck on the theory that Sherri was killed by one or multiple burglars. Many people have said this caused them to not interview key witnesses or even take a hard look at John's ex-girlfriend. It took cold case investigators, over 20 years later, to put the pieces of the puzzle together. And when they did all signs pointed to Stephanie Lazarus. But, they had to tread carefully to take down one of their own.

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0:15.1	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 216 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.
0:38.8	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime Mike Gibson.
0:43.4	Maybe how are you? Hey man, I'm doing good about you. I'm doing great. Yeah. I am ready
0:47.6	to get into this episode which is very tightly packed. Very tightly packed. So we can't waste
0:54.9	any time getting there. So let's go ahead and give our shout out. Let's do it. We had
1:00.5	Kimberly Mueller. Hey Kimberly. Suzanne Higden. Hey Higden. Beth Ann Logan. What's going
1:06.3	on Beth? Melissa Theresa jumped out at our highest level. Hey, Tori C Emily E. What's going
1:12.2	on Emily? Emily Wadell jumped out at our highest level. I'm sick. Two Emily's in a row.
1:16.5	Deanna Mady. What's going on? Mady? Carly Topham. Hey, Topham. Chris Matthias jumped out
1:22.8	at our highest level. What's up Matthias? Boris Banan. Hey, Prishtep Barissa. Kate Harris.
1:29.1	Hey, thank you, Kate. Allison McLaughlin. Hey, Allison. Chris Ormy. Well, appreciate that
1:34.1	Ormy. Mike DePree. What's up DePree? Courtney Monoka. Monoka. Raj Patel. What's happening,
1:42.6	Raj? Sean Perry. Hey, Sean. Holly Stevenson. What's going on, Holly? Anita Dunn. Thank you,
1:48.0	Anita. Jennifer O'Brien. Well, Brian. Uh-huh. Yeah. Cassie Patton. Hey, Cassie. Lutz Lang. Hey,
1:55.7	what's happening, LL? And last but not least, Julian Nash. Well, appreciate that, Julia.
2:00.9	That's a lot of great new Patreon support. We really appreciate it. And then if we go back
2:05.6	into the vault, this week, we selected Eva Nordland. Well, thank you, Eva. So we really
2:12.8	want to thank all of those folks that have supported this over the years and continue to
2:17.3	support us on Patreon. It makes a world of difference. We had some great PayPal donations
2:22.5	as well from Christie Titsy. What's it going on, Titsy? Jennifer Warmoot. Hey, Jennifer.
2:29.5	Nobody's business. There's nobody's. And Alia Ferkins. What's happening? Ferkins. I felt
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