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20/20

The Killer Down the Hall

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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One of the most sensational true crime stories. A brutal murder in Los Angeles and a shocking twist nobody could have ever imagined.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Pound for pound, one of the greatest true crime stories of all time.

0:05.0

This would turn out to be a notorious surreal case.

0:10.0

A woman brutally murdered in cold blood.

0:13.0

Investigators at the time believed that Sherry Rasmussen was the victim of a burglary that had turned into her own murder.

0:21.0

As I walked in, there was blood.

0:23.8

She was literally clawing at the front door.

0:25.7

Trying to get out.

0:27.3

People were on edge during that era, and add to that,

0:31.5

we were the serial killer capital of the world.

0:34.0

It's like being hit by a train, just like being hit by a train.

0:41.0

I don't usually talk about that day or that time.

0:45.0

How soon was it after the murder that your father and your mother

0:50.0

started to think that maybe this wasn't a robbery?

0:52.0

I assumed it was going to be burglars, male burglars.

0:55.0

And there was another piece of evidence that caught the attention of investigators.

1:01.0

A bite mark on Sherry's forearm.

1:04.0

I suspect that the LAPD could never have fathom. And the If you walk down

1:25.0

walk down Hollywood Boulevard you can't help but notice the stars on the sidewalk

1:31.5

the glitter in the pavement, and you think to yourself, wow, this

1:36.0

is Tinsultown.

1:38.6

But it doesn't take long until you realize that there are deep cracks in that pavement exposing a criminal

1:44.5

element you could never have anticipated. In the case of Sherry Rasmussen was a

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