Stephanie Lazarus, who was an L.A. police detective when she killed her former boyfriend's wife in 1986, was recommended for parole by a select committee Thursday. Lazarus, 63, was convicted in 2012 ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife ...

Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus appears at her 2009 arraignment in the murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) When Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her Van Nuys ...

LOS ANGELES — A chance for parole was rescinded Wednesday for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case killing of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986.

She committed one of the most chilling murders of the 1980s, and new developments decades later in the case of Stephanie Lazarus have brought renewed attention to her story.

When Sherri Rasmussen was found murdered in her own home, the case looked like a burglary gone wrong—until every clue pointed somewhere far more disturbing. For 23 years, her father begged detectives ...

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 ...

A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986.Stephanie Lazarus ...

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 ...