Mar 10, 2026
In 1986, 29-year-old nurse Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in the living room of the condo she shared with her husband in Van Nuys. The crime scene looked like a burglary gone terribly wrong—drawers pulled open, valuables scattered, and a brutal struggle that ended in Sherri’s death.
From the very beginning, something didn’t add up. Despite troubling details and early suspicions from Sherri’s family, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department quickly focused on the burglary theory and the case went cold. For years, the truth about what happened inside that condo remained buried beneath a flawed investigation, overlooked evidence, and one very powerful connection.
In Part 1, we walk through the day Sherri was murdered, the initial police investigation, and the red flags that were ignored from the start. Because sometimes the biggest clues are the ones investigators refuse to see.
Disclaimer
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Show Notes
s://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stephanie-lazarus-sherri-rasmussen-lapd-detective-murder-parole-rcna129130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ljpPTNvCM
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-lazarus-file/308499/
