woman s name to her parents. instead, she told them not to worry. she told me, i want to see if i cannot work this out myself. reporter: that kwfrconversat happened in a dinner celebrating her 29th birthday. as she had walked away, she turned and gave me a big smile. and i have relived that smile for years. reporter: less than three weeks later, sherry rassmussen lay dead. the rassmussen s insist early in the investigation they told the lead l.a.p.d. detective about sherry s troubling encounters with john s ex-girlfriend. i told the detective, not once, but probably 15-20 times. and he said, the trouble with you is you have been watching too much tv. coming up, old he was offers new clues. the suspect made it appear to
theory that this was a botched burglary. by the level of violence that occurred in the residents, the theory was that it was a man or to men that had entered the residence to do a burglary and a or a home invasion that went wrong, and murdered the victim to cover up the crime and fled. reporter: gone wrong, because sherry somehow surprised them. they panicked, shot her and then fled. the theory seemed to make sense, especially sherry had no apparent enemies, no one who would want to kill her, or so they thought. coming up we wasn t to sherry s office and said that, if she could not have john, nobody could. when dateline continues. so, let s make this the summer of loving your gut. activia. love for your gut.
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