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A deeply-reported, riveting accounts of a chilly case murder in LA, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking think – a lady detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.

On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the house she distributed to her spouse, John. The crime scene recommended a ferocious struggle, and law enforcement initially assumed it had been a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri got confided to her parents about The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los Angeles police officer, acquired threatened her. The Rasmussens urged the LAPD to investigate the ex-girlfriend, but the primary detectives just pursued burglary suspects, as well as the case went frosty.

DNA analysis didn’t exist when Sherri was murdered. Decades later, a swab from a bite mark on Sherri’s arm revealed her killer was actually female, not male. A DNA match resulted in the arrest and conviction of experienced LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime girlfriend.

The Lazarus Documents delivers the visceral connection with being in the real-life murder mystery. McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John and Stephanie; the love triangle that led to Sherri’s murder; and the homicide analysis that followed. Was Stephanie covered by her fellow officials? What do the LAPD know, and when do they understand it? Are there additional LAPD cold instances with a police connection that stay unsolved?