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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...

Versus stefanie lazarus, finally began in a courtroom in downtown los angeles. the prosecution laid out a clear case of how stephanie lazarus was deeply in love with john rutton, and was devastated when he became engaged to sherry, and then executed her and covered it up, by staging a burglary. linda deutsche of the associated press covered the trial. >> the opening statement by the prosecutor was quite dramatic and he came up with a theme which was that the case was about a bite, a bullet, a gun barrel, and a broken heart and that kind of resonated in the courtroom. >> the jury saw journals p...

Their guns. unarmed and unsuspecting, she didn't realize she was being recorded by an undercover camera. >> hi. >> have a seat. >> and that's when detectives revealed that this conversation wasn't about art. >> do you know john rutton? >> john rutton? >> you said you dated john. how long did you guys date? >> i mean, what -- are you guys, is this something -- you said i was going to interview somebody about art. >> detective seemed uncomfortab uncomfortable and vague in her answers especially when they add skbt sherry. >> you know, i may have talked to her. you know -- >> you mentioned a hospi...

Her parents told investigators about several run ins with her husband's ex-. now a detective was focusing on that very same woman who happened to be a member of the lapd. here's more with the smoking gun. >> the lapd had but one narrative for sherry's murder. she was randomly killed by two men during a botched burglary. now science had rewritten the script and this once cold case was suddenly almost too hot to handle. the prime suspect an lapd detective named stefani. but as he went back through the original murder book he found almost nothing on her even though she was the ex- girlfriend. >> ...

In the official chronoology from back in is the 86. a detective had written her name but no notes. >> she seemed to be someone above suspicion. stefani had grown up in southern california, a tomboy of sorts. loved sports, she attended ucla where she played basketball. it was during her college days that she met and dated john rutton long before he and sherry had gotten married. she surprised her family by joining the lapd. >> i don't think i knew that she was applying. >> i was very proud. i thought it was a cool thing. >> stefani quickly rose through the ranks at the lapd from