The cold case homicide detectives said they often ran into her because they shared kitchen space with her department, so I think she knew that sooner or later they'd be looking at the Sherri Rassmussen case. I wonder if she thought about looking at the evidence box herself before Homicide got to it and removing anything that could point to her? I wonder if she was able to look at a written list of the evidence without anyone knowing she had accessed it and saw they had that swab? If not, I wonder if it was always in the back of her mind that someone COULD have swabbed that bitemark? I don't think she planned what to say if she was ever questioned again, because she sure got caught in a lot of lies. I'd have done or thought about doing all the above things if that was me. If that was me, I'd have been so scared and paranoid, I'm not sure I could have done my job. I wonder how she coped? I wonder what mechanisms she used to basically forget about it and go on with life? How could she have been so sure she'd never get caught that she never even thought about what to say if she was interrogated? I can understand how a few years went by so she got pretty confident at that time. But after DNA came along, I wonder how she managed to keep that confidence? I'd have been a complete wreck. I'm not sure why this particular woman's thought processes and state of mind fascinates me so much. But for some reason, Stephanie Lazarus is the only one that makes me stop and ponder, what were those 23 years like for her? I watch a lot of true crime and have seen a lot of evil, unfeeling, greedy people committing heinous crimes. I just read the Vanity Fair article you posted a while back, CA4Now. It cleared the question up for me.Īpparently another cop named Phil Morritt checked out the evidence on this case in 1993 (right around the time cold cases started being solved with DNA - LA didn't start their program till 2001 but other PDs were doing it and Lazarus had to be terrified what would happen when LA caught up) and any evidence that could have had the DNA of the killer went missing. Everyone said how well-liked Stephanie was, I guess she could have gotten someone to risk their career to cover for her. Also Sherri's father and co-workers told the cops about Lazarus. Sherri's dad kept urging them for years to look at her. None of this was in the original detective's notes. Either he hadn't made note of these numerous calls, or someone else removed those pages.
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