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.

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES AP - A veteran detective was charged with murder Monday in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 - a crime that went unsolved for more than two decades as she rose through the Los ...

"A bite, a bullet, a gun barrel, and a broken heart," were prosecutor Shannon Presby's opening words Monday, marking a powerful opening to an already dramatic case. Prosecutors allege that because of ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...