![]() Formerly a legal consultant and writer for NBC’s Law & Order, he lives in LA with his wife and children. His acclaimed memoir Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees was the basis of “Clubhouse,” a primetime TV series on CBS, and his story about his first day with the Yankees was selected to lead the pilot episode of The Moth Radio Hour. Matthew McGough has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and more. The full excerpt → Listen to an Excerpt from the Audiobook Download MP3 Back About the author Matthew McGough McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John and Stephanie the love triangle that led to Sherri’s murder and the homicide. The Lazarus Files delivers the visceral experience of being inside a real-life murder mystery. Sherri’s husband, John Ruetten, came home from work at. If the LAPD really did cover up Stephanie Lazarus’ murder of Sherri Rasmussen, it was done so brazenly that it’s almost impossible to believe On February 24, 1986, John Ruetten returned home to his condo in Van Nuys, California, to find Sherri, his wife of only three months, dead in the living room. A DNA match led to the arrest and conviction of veteran LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime girlfriend. Sherri Rasmussen, a twenty-nine-year-old hospital nurse, was just one of 831 people murdered in Los Angeles in 1986. Was Stephanie protected by her fellow officers? What did the LAPD know, and when did they know it? Are there other LAPD cold cases with a police connection that remain unsolved? BookĮxcerpts About the Author BOOK EXCERPTS Read an Excerpt McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John and Stephanie the love triangle that led to Sherri’s murder and the homicide investigation that followed. ![]() A DNA match led to the arrest and conviction of veteran LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime girlfriend. Decades later, a swab from a bite mark on Sherri’s arm revealed her killer was in fact female, not male. The Rasmussens urged the LAPD to investigate the ex-girlfriend, but the original detectives only pursued burglary suspects, and the case went cold.ĭNA analysis did not exist when Sherri was murdered. Before her death, Sherri had confided to her parents that an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los Angeles police officer, had threatened her. The crime scene suggested a ferocious struggle, and police initially assumed it was a burglary gone awry. Lazarus was a Los Angeles Police Officer at the time and went on to climb. On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. Her parents and a few of her friends knew that she had been harassed before the murder by a longtime girlfriend of her husband, John. Sherris husbands ex-girlfriend, Stephanie Lazarus, coldly shot Sherri to death. ![]() Media Issues, Communication & Journalism.Computer Science & Information Technology.
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