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On the relationship which started when they were students at ucla. they dated nouf until john got en-- on and off until john dated sh sherri, but then -- you believe the relationship overlapped with the relationship with his wife? >> we know from john that there was at least one occasion where he was engaged that he was intimate with stephanie lazarus. there was a love triangle, and stephanie lazarus had deep feelings for john ruetten and may have had a motive to harm sherri rasmussen. >> was sherri's killer a scorned lover or a jealous co-worker? >> we had two women on the list who in our opi...

Almost immediately for insufficient motive. >> but there were still two names left. one of them was a co-worker. >> a woman named debra that worked with sherri rasmussen at glendale hospital. this person of interest was later replaced by sherri rasmussen in an official capacity. problems followed almost misdemeanor after that. >> there was bad blood between them? >> there was a motive. >> debra had moved to northern california. nutall asked local law enforcement to watch her and secretly try to snag a sample of her dna for comparison testing. in the meantime, nutall learned more about the seco...

Names. >> we had five women that would have had access to sherry and perhaps at least some of them may have motivated to harm her. three of them reeliminated almost immediately for insufficient motive. >> but there was still two names left. one of them was a coworker. >> a woman named debra. this person of interest was later replaced by sherry and problems followed almost immediately after that. >> there was bad blood between them. >> there was a motive. >> reporter: debra had moved to california. in the meantime, he learned more about the second woman. he contacted john rutton, sherry's forme...

>> correct. >> a few weeks later cops in northern california tracked down debra and recreditly scooped up a sample of her crash that contained her dna. it was sent to the crime lab and 72 hours later came an answer. >> she was not the donor of the dna profile from the bite. >> that left one possible suspect. number five on the list. john rutton's ex- girlfriend. he called the family. >> we came home and there was a message on our phone from a detective that they wanted to talk to us and i thought, oh, yeah, right. i thought it was just another false hope. >> this is detective. >> right. >> he ...