rather than being inside the envelope and sealed in order to protect the integrity of the evidence. you can t rely on the scientific results. overland also said that hair, blood and fingerprints found at the crime scene did not come from lazarus. as for the weapon that fired the fatal shots, he insisted there were several other types of guns besides stephanie s that could have fired those bullets and as to motive, the defense argued there was no evidence that stephanie lazarus was obsessed with sherry s husband, john. quite the opposite. john was still calling her. and stephanie went to tell sherry, look, you guys are getting married. i tell him not to call me. after five weeks it was up to the jury ri. loretta and nels rasmussen had
happened. sherri s parents never thought it was a burglary. they knew weeks before the murder sherri had several strange encounters. one as she dined at a restaurant and thought a woman was watching her. she said she has eyes that can see right through you. scary eyes. there was also a run-in at the hospital where sherri worked. she went to sherri s office and said that if she couldn t have john, nobody could. most terrifying, an encounter in sherri s own home. and by now, she knew who the mystery woman was. she heard a noise, and she looked up, and there was john s ex-girlfriend. how d she get in the house? we have no idea. john s ex-girlfriend appeared to be stalking sherri, yet
l.a. for analysis, and 72 hours later came an answer. she was not the donor of the dna profile from the bite. that left just one possible suspect number five on the list, john ruetten s ex-girlfriend, stephanie lazarus. nutall called the rasmussens. we came home, and there was a message on our phone from a detective that they wanted to talk to us. i thought, oh, yeah, right. i thought it was just another false hope. this is detective nutall? right. she said that they were opening the investigation. he was upset with me. it was sort of like, detective, where have you been for the last two decades? and now nels rasmussen explained it all, how he told detectives in 1986 that someone was talking his daughter, sherri. a woman with crazy eyes. the ex-girlfriend of sherri s husband.