Stephanie Lazarus was a respected LAPD detective. What no one knew? She was also a killer. In 1986, she murdered the woman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus appears at her 2009 arraignment in the murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster / Los ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles police detective faces 27 years to life in prison when she's scheduled to be sentenced Friday for murdering the wife of her former lover in 1986. Stephanie ...

Stephanie Lazarus, 52, waved to her family and smiled broadly as she entered the courtroom on Friday. She was similarly upbeat as she left the courtroom, even after hearing tearful testimony about the ...

A former Los Angeles police detective who killed a romantic rival and concealed the murder for more than two decades will not be paroled, reversing an earlier decision that found she was suitable for ...

LOS ANGELES To police and prosecutors, Stephanie Lazarus, the 49-year-old mother of a toddler whom friends and co-workers could not praise enough, is a killer. Worse, she is one of their own. She is a ...

"A bite, a bullet, a gun barrel, and a broken heart," were prosecutor Shannon Presby's opening words Monday, marking a powerful opening to an already dramatic case. Prosecutors allege that because of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A veteran Los Angeles police detective pleaded not guilty Monday to murder in the 1986 killing of her ex-boyfriend's wife. Stephanie Lazarus, 49, remained in custody without bail ...

Los Angeles Police Det. Stephanie Lazarus appears at her 2009 arraignment in the murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) When Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her Van Nuys ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles police detective was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for murdering the wife of her former lover 26 years ago. Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found ...

When Sherri Rasmussen was found dead in her Van Nuys townhome in February 1986, bludgeoned badly and shot three times, detectives called it a burglary gone bad — a disastrously mistaken conclusion ...