In this episode, we unravel the case of Stephanie Lazarus—a former LAPD detective whose double life stunned both her colleagues and the public. By day, she was a respected officer, but behind the badge, Lazarus harbored an obsession with a past relationship that would end in murder. We’ll revisit the brutal 1986 killing of Sherri Rasmussen, the initial investigation that went cold, and how advanced DNA technology—paired with dogged determination from cold case detectives—finally exposed Lazarus’s darkest secret more than two decades later.

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