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The trial began in 2012 and received a lot of media attention due to the nature of the story вЂ“ a love triangle and the accused being a police officer. This was done to prevent her from fleeing the country or obtaining weapons through her husband, who was also a detective. Stephanie was allowed to retire from the LAPD, and the bail hearing that was initially delayed to six months amounted to $10 million in cash. Stephanie was brought to Parker Centre (a police administration building) under a pretense on June 5, 2009, and arrested for the crime that transpired twenty-three years ago. Interestingly, she reported her stolen gun in a different police department than hers. The weapon used at the crime scene also matched StephanieвЂ™s gun, which she had reported stolen just thirteen days after the event took place. StephanieвЂ™s (a prime suspect on SherryвЂ™s fatherвЂ™s suggestion) a DNA sample was discreetly collected during her work hours, and a match was found. In 2009, the case was reopened when a new DNA testing technique found that the bite mark on SherriвЂ™s arm matched to that of an unknown woman. Twenty-three years went by and Stephanie got promoted to the position of a higher-level detective in the Commercial Crimes Division, in-charge of all art theft cases. This, however, was quickly dismissed as Stephanie was a police officer herself, and the weapon used in the burglary matched the one used to kill Sherri. SherriвЂ™s parents insisted that Stephanie Lazarus be considered a suspect as they knew she had been intimidating Sherri. No one was arrested for the murder, and the investigators closed the case without considering any more suspects.

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Hence the crime in which Sherri was shot three times and bitten was immediately wrongly identified as a вЂњburglary gone wrongвЂќ even though nothing except the BMW and John and SherriвЂ™s marriage license was stolen. Image Credit: That Chapter/YouTubeД«urglaries had taken place on that very street two days after the incident where an unsuspecting woman was held at gunpoint by two Latino men. This was followed by John (who had repeatedly called home that day and received no answer) returning home and finding his garage door open, glass broken, SherriвЂ™s silver BMW gone, and his wife dead on the living room floor. It has also been reported that Stephanie once landed at SherriвЂ™s place of work to threaten her by saying, вЂњIf I canвЂ™t have John, no one else will.вЂќ On the afternoon of February 24, 1986, sounds of disputes were heard by a maid working nearby the Ruetten residence. Numerous events precede the actual event of the crime, where Sherri complained about feeling uncomfortable by a jealous and imposing Stephanie who showed up to their house uninvited. Stephanie, who later became a part of the LAPD, was dejected when she learned that John was in a serious relationship with a 29-year-old nursing administrator Sherri Rasmussen.

As undergraduate students at the University of California, Los Angeles, John and Stephanie shared the same dorm floor and occasionally dated during and after their graduation.

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