Stephanie Lazarus, 52, waved to her family and smiled broadly as she entered the courtroom on Friday. She was similarly upbeat as she left the courtroom, even after hearing tearful testimony about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus appears at her 2009 arraignment in the murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster / Los ...

Newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was brutally murdered in 1986, but it took 23 years for police to catch her killer, police officer Stephanie Lazarus. If the killer was in the LAPD all along, why'd it take ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles police detective faces 27 years to life in prison when she's scheduled to be sentenced Friday for murdering the wife of her former lover in 1986. Stephanie ...

In December 2004, members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Cold Case Unit reopened a 23 year old unsolved murder case, asking the Coroner’s office to have a DNA analysis done on a bite mark ...

LOS ANGELES To police and prosecutors, Stephanie Lazarus, the 49-year-old mother of a toddler whom friends and co-workers could not praise enough, is a killer. Worse, she is one of their own. She is a ...

LOS ANGELES — A state parole board panel denied parole Wednesday for a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who admitted that she shot and killed her ex-lover’s new wife in the victim’s Van ...

When Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her Van Nuys townhome in February 1986, bludgeoned badly and shot three times, detectives called it a burglary gone bad — a disastrously mistaken conclusion ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering the wife of her former lover 26 years ago. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found ...