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This is a shocker.Īdvertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Police are holding a press conference right now to provide further details on this 1986 cold case murder. “I started to love art when I went to Europe at 18.” “I've been to Florence several times,” she adds on a more serious note. So she started taking oil-painting classes. “After working here and seeing all the phony art, I said, 'I can do “Hangs on the wall,” she shoots back jokingly. This mother of a 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter has been workingĪlongside her mentor for the past three years. In the Weekly profile of LAPD cop Don Hrycyk by writer Mark Groubert, Lazarus is described as an art expert and ringer for Tyne Daly:Īlongside Hrycyk is protégée Stephanie Lazarus, a 25-year veteran of the force and a serious Tyne Daly look-alike à la Cagney & Lacey. Lazarus graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. She shot and killed Sherri Rasmussen out of uttermost jealousy after Sherri got married to Lazarus's college boyfriend John Ruetten according to Insta Chronicles. The wife of her lover, and got away with it for more than two decades until getting tripped up by a DNA test, was featured this year in LA Weekly's popular April 23 People Issue. John Ruetten, victim Sherri Rasmussens husband, describes how his wifes murder, by former police officer and his ex-lover Stephanie Lazarus, impacted his and his familys lives. Stephanie Lazarus is a former police detective and convicted murderer. Weird happenings in our grim, big city: Accused Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus, who police today said killed Sherri Rae Rasmussen, Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found guilty in March of killing Sherri Rasmussen, who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her husband of three months, John Ruetten.
