The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation Audiobook (Free)

The program is read by the writer.

A deeply-reported, riveting accounts of a chilly case murder in LA, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a lady detective inside the LAPD’s own ranks.

On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the house she shared with her spouse, John. The crime scene recommended a ferocious struggle, and law enforcement initially assumed it had been a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri had confided to her parents about The Lazarus Files: A Cool Case Investigation that an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los Angeles police officer, acquired threatened her. The Rasmussens urged the LAPD to research the ex-girlfriend, but the initial detectives only pursued burglary suspects, as well as the case went chilly.

DNA analysis did not exist when Sherri was murdered. Years later on, a swab from a bite mark on Sherri’s arm exposed her killer was in fact female, not really male. A DNA match resulted in the arrest and conviction of experienced LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime partner.

The Lazarus Files delivers the visceral experience of being in the real-life murder mystery. McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John and Stephanie; the like triangle that resulted in Sherri’s murder; and the homicide investigation that implemented. Was Stephanie guarded by her fellow officers? What did the LAPD understand, and when do they know it? Are there additional LAPD cold situations with a police connection that remain unsolved?