This woman secretly murdered someone and over the years moved up the ranks of a long time honorable officer. That is actually the most terrifying part of it all.
Actually its not one bit surprising. A lot of them cops are sociopathic. Its easy to blend right in. No offense to honest cops who do their jobs with intergrity
@@spiritwalker9903 I mean, the timeline adds up, doesn't it? Basically an entire generation of senior LA cops retires/dies in that time, then a fresh team get assigned an old case, but the intentional ignorance isn't grandfathered in any more and they approach it clinically.
As I understand it the case was among several cold cases which were re-opened, on the orders of a senior LA policemen. It seems that at the time of her arrest the LA detectives department was very efficient (obviously they weren't at the time of the murder) and, as a result, actually didn't have many open cases to investigate. The senior cop decided it was a good time to re-open some unsolved cases as his men and women were not particularly busy.
Yep so true, I'm so glad that those two investigator's actually took the time to re investigate and didn't stuff around, At first I thought the lady investigator would be the one to get Stephanie but she walked away cowering cos she got heat from other police officers for pointing the finger at one of their own, I hope she is no longer a police officer cos she won't be solving your loved ones murder, She drops the case as soon as she gets a bit of intimidation, Pffft
That was the mentality...... the old Blue Curtain.....LAPD was one of the worst.....she was a shitty actress sitting there trying to act like she didn't know what they were talking about.... " A million years ago...." FUCKING killer......😮
Yes facts You can't tell me otherwise they literally seen a bite mark on Sherry a f****** bite mark and did nothing with it You can't tell me that they didn't bury this they knew exactly what happened and that's why me personally I would never trust police officers especially when they be like oh we're going to do our research interrogation on their own trust and believe they're not going to do none of that with their own they're going to make sure nothing happens to me they're going to make sure nothing happens to them and people slowly forget even the ones that don't forget they're going to try to play them like they're crazy or keep telling them we're checking we're looking we're doing what we can when they're absolutely doing nothing they're pieces of s*** not all of them but the majority I said what I said
I actually think the truth is worse. They never even considered the murder being anything other than a robbery gone wrong. They simply did absolutely nothing to truly find the killer.
I wouldn't expect anyone, even a cop, to retain the necessary level of composure required to make it through an interview with murder police. Unless the person had a high psychopathy score.
I was about to say, decades of being a cop and all the promotions, you'd think she'd be really smart with being on the other side of the table. You'd think a couple detectives wouldn't be able to turn her into a bumbling baboon during questioning 🤔
@@chelseapthib36 i thinknits being caught so off guard. If they had given her a day to know what was happening she prob would've been more prepared to answer the questions.
@@kmarshirley i think that's the point in a murder investigation. Catch them off guard. You dont give your #1 suspect in a murder case time to prepare for the interview about said murder, they could come up with all kinda shit. These guys did everything right, 23 years later. Having her think she's coming question a suspect, that way they get her gun off her, cuz you cant have your gun in interrogation rooms. And knowing her Gosh, Gee crazy ass, she probably would have shot them, too, if not.
Lol she remembers what she had for breakfast lunch and dinner when it’s something unrelated, but damn if she don’t get full blown amnesia when they say john or Sherri , oh gosh I mean gee, it was so long ago, you know? gosh! You can literally see her spinning out, her eyes are manic, if it was anyone else you’d have empathy for someone who’s clearly spiralling in front of your eyes but I’m actually relishing this, the idea of her, being a “respected” detective for years and milking it and now everyone’s gonna know her secret!
She probably knew as a LAPD officer they would overlook her as a suspect. Sherrie's father begged on a regular basis they investigate Stephnie Lazarus, but they ignored him.
lmao! "did you watch the ball game last night" "Geez i dunno its been like a million seconds since last night,wow so long ago and which game?ya mean basketball or football,i mean a football isnt even a real ball its more egg shaped, so complicated wow im so confused and shocked,"
@@kaynucklehead1633 at first it was and she was panicking internally because it came out of nowhere and she thought she was done with it, then she had to start acting.
Didn't they say she was a detective? She's pretty bad at that too. Ske knew how not to act. What not to avoid answering and she blew it right away then tried to fix it which just made it worse. I laughed the whole way through.
@@AABB-zb6dv oh yeah is it than look at the whole comment section many comments on the video which got more than thousand like r almost the same,,its just that everyone who is watchng the video will get almost the same feelings,,doesnt mean that everyone steals each others comment,..
23 years she must have felt so safe. i can’t imagine the fear she felt when she heard that name again after so long. nothing compared to the fear sherri must have felt
Bro Imagine this... At every workplace in the world, some people dislike their boss... When she was called for interrogation, she must have told some of her subordinates to get some work done... that subordinate would've cursed her going out of her workplace... Little did they know 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
It irritates me that it took her that long to get caught! She got to live her life, get married and adopt a kid. Then again it is satisfying to see her build a life and have it all taken away in a flash like she did Sherri.
@@georgialee6755 but there were so many circumstances and people that pointed in her direction and they refused to entertain that she could be involved
Trisha It still would not have been enough to convict her at the time. She left no physical evidence that could be connected to her at that time. Not until DNA was available. The DNA was the biggest thing that sealed it. It’s very highly doubtful she would have been convicted at that time. Plus John didn’t believe at the time that she did it and the fact she was a cop. The DNA results did her in
Detective: Did you ever meet John's wife? Stephanie: Aw jeez, I don't know? Maybe just that one time when I killed her, but that's been a million years ago!
They're incredible. The full interview is up on TH-cam and it's amazing how many expressions-particularly one where she opens and closes her mouth as if chewing while "thinking"- she comes up with.
The fact that the ONLY items taken were John & Sherri’s wedding certificate and the car that John gave Sherri as a wedding gift speaks volumes as to who did this. So obvious it was Stephanie.
So jealous of the BMW..I bet it crushed Lazarus..all she may have got? Some lame one night stand activity..and I'm sure he was in bathroom after for awhile..lol. (Hoping she'd kick rocks!ha) Maybe a glass of kool-aid from the fridge..that didn't have enough sugar! Just enough in the jug to make you pissed off..haha!! I gotta stop with my smart ass mouth. And bad jokes...
Detective: "What did you do literally last night?" Stephanie: "Oh gee, oh gosh, I don't know. Gee, I think maybe I had dinner but I couldn't tell you. Gosh, it was so long ago."
Gee, oh gosh, i dont know i mean i think i went to dinner i dont remember where, i can recall the waitress her name was Linda she lives two blocks away from my aunt, i think she used to play basketball and tenis back in 83 along side her dog, it was a golden retriver you know? but i dont know abot what i did last night (makes an ugly ass expression)
and john suspected it...he asked the cops were they sure lazarus didn't have anything to do with it...probably cuz he had to urge to tap that again... what a jerk
@@kimmyfreak200 grief does strange things to a person, and you often don't/can't make the best decisions for yourself. John was probably looking for affection, companionship and a temporary release from the pain he was feeling, and some people can be super manipulative when you're grieving because you're in such a vulnerable state. Stephanie is the type of personality that would have definitely exploited John during this time.
There wasn’t enough Technology dealing with DNA 🧬 whatsoever back then anyway to arrest her - let alone convict her, finding her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Back in those days, she thought she had and she did have all her bases covered. Kudos: To the parents for hanging on to their daughter’s case like a couple of relentless pit bulls 🌪🐾🌪
@@stacymirba1433 Dn't think so..they had little to go on with. When they started to investigated their only "impossible" lead they found out it was one f their own. They did not intensionately tried t burry it because they knew it was a police officer. It happens..but not in this case. If she was caught back in the day she wuld maybe be released the day she got cnvicted so many years later.
@@Za7a7aZ They had a lot to go on from letters to her mother saying how mad she was, to threatening to kill her in front of co workers, to stalking her, to going over to her house and attacking her before. There was a big neon arrow pointing to her. The pigs protected her.
Well, she wasn't very bright when she declined giving investigators her DNA sample and then ended up giving it to them on a silver platter anyway when she licked her finger to remove her wedding ring when she was being booked.
She brutally murdered Sherri to be with John then she married another dude? Sherri died because of a cheating husband and crazy girlfriend-literally for nothing.
The four Van Nuys detectives who reinvestigated the case did a brilliant job. These two detectives didn’t do much - it was already known by this time she did it.
@@georgialee6755 wow ARE YOU WRONG. That was a brilliant investigation and even jurors said this interview put them over the top since the DNA was so old. You need to read up on the case. These 2 detectives went on to get front page covers on magazines and promotions. good for them!
According to Lazaus's diary, her partner that day was Stacy Koon who was one of the four LAPD officers involved in the beating of Rodney King which happened just 3 months after Lazarus went down.
Aint that the truth.rape ,kill ,plunder and pillage and make them pay you to do it.That is their motto ,they must learn it in college,it don't take them long to get it down.She would have made an excellent politician.
This really makes me wonderhow many other deaths out there have not been investigated properly because they may be linked to somebody in law enforcement.
I knew this case already. One of the more peculiar things about it was that a witness had seen a woman with "crazy eyes" leaving the scene of the murder. On the footage that you have shown here, it is hard to notice but she really did have the weird habit of widening her eyes all the time. It looked unsettling and little crazy. 🤪 I kept waiting for you to mention her "crazy eyes" but you never did...
@@joesickler5888 yeah they knew she would be suspicious if they just called her in about Sherri. Im sad for her husband - his side chick killed his wife.
@@sagalahmed8876 I'm not one bit sad for John. He lead Stephanie on and even fucked her while he was engaged. And not only that he had the voice to scream from the rooftops that she should of been the main suspect but sadly he did not. He's got blood on his hands also. I feel bad for poor Sherri and her family. Not that scumbag John.
Nephylim more accurate to say anyone who wants to appear innocent mistakenly does this - including actually innocent people. Media intentionally portrays people being silent other than demanding a lawyer as horrible, guilty people.
And she spoke in circles and wayyyyyyy to much detail about things (tings?) She was supposed to not know shit about. Classic gulty manuvers. Someone innocent would say something like, i dont fucking know what are you on about. A two decade old cop. That is our police system.
“I mean...geez, gosh..that was during a lunar eclipse, uh..geez, you know, gosh. I think, uh..the sun was up that day. I don’t know, uh, it’s been so many years. Was that when sand was on the beach? Geez, you know? Gosh, oh, O.j. Simpson was acquitted in ‘94-‘95. But yea, I dated John..gosh, you know? Geez, Is that when Jurassic park was released?”
“Oh geez let’s see I was born in 1960 and I was a baby but that was so long ago gosh um and then I lived in the dorms and gee I got married… what year is it now? Why does this matter it was like a million years ago,,,what’s this about again?”
My Dad worked with her a few times during the time she committed the murder. He testified in her murder trial and always said she was a very strange woman.
There is no way in hell this case should have gone on for 23 years. If I was the COP of the LAPD, I'd publicly embarrass the original detectives who were initially assigned the case. They knowingly violated their oaths as both LEOs and detectives. At a minimum they were inept, at the maximum they were corrupt and they violated the public trust.
That was back in the days where they would find evidence and go "Well we're never going to find out who did this unless somebody gets busted for something else and gives up his accomplice."
bananasinfrench I just commented about how weird it is that this popped up cuz I just watched his video on this last week. This lady is INSANE. How nobody put this together in the 20 years after the murder is baffling. How did the husband not just know she did this?!?! Shits crazy.
@@finerotime5103 How people naturally react to being confronted about something they know they did. Their body language and stumbling to explain themselves is a dead giveaway.
He body language started oozing with guilt as soon as her ex’s name came out. Look how many deep gulps she took early on. She is scrambling around, hitting the table, stuttering, etc. she knew she was caught immediately.
Kinda underhanded to video tape it in secret and not mirandize her right away... but they got away with it because it was just "cops talking about a case" dirty!
Good old Stephanie, cannot give a concise answer to any question. “Did you know the victim?” “Well let me start at the beginning. During the Big Bang the universe expanded, and I think that was about 13 billion years ago...”
Gotta give those detectives credit for actually CARING about the case and wanting to find the truth. This sick woman probably would never have been caught if it weren't for those guys.
Well, to be honest, they NEEDED to care, they only started to investigate this case again because of low crime rates in LA in that year so they were pressure by higher ranks to reopen cold cases.
Dude this guy is so great to listen to, and watch, because he adds a sense of humor but not in poor taste. Also the amount of work he puts in to these videos blows my mind. I have seen this story a few times before, mainly her interrogation. He always has all the footage, 911 calls, pictures, videos, like anything that was ever available he will get it. Love this site. I realize I'm late to the party, seeing its like 4 years old, but keep on going, and just wanted to show my support!
My first impression was exactly the same. She has what i call it the "crazy Bird Eyes". In my experience those look in the eyes and the person says good mornin' to you, possible she had lied twice to you, so far. G.W. Bush jr. and Lance Armstrong same look, sorry Texas not personal.... best regards from god od Germany
Lazarus then went on to have sex with Sherri's husband, so the murder is bound to have crossed her mind while she had her victim's husband's cock inside her. That is a sick mind.
.... that makes her guilty??? I’m not a fan of hers but looks shouldn’t matter... that’s why so many blue eyed blondes and handsome serial killers get away with so much....just saying!
I cant believe she wasn't questioned and caught in the first place, she absolutely lost it when cornered. Even I could tell that she was lying through her teeth. She also has crazy eyes that make her appear terrifying.
I’ve never seen someone snap so hard under pressure, it’s almost hard to watch her absolutely crash and burn. She was never prepared for this moment at all, that was very clear
@@tamaracoba I mean in an oof cringe kind of way, like a trainwreck I can't look away from. I can't even count how many times I've rewatched her interrogation interview now, it's too good!
Stephanie did go through the case records for Sherry's murder many times as well as keeping tabs on the case . The female detective that worked the cold case found the DNA tucked away somewhere else,thankfully.
I had heard she or someone close to her actually destroyed some of the DNA evidence and they were lucky enough to find some other DNA evidence in the evidence.
Chris Watson Holy shit that means she thought she was scott free Weird that she didn’t just smugly oblige to a swab thinking* they were bluffing with the DNA angle Considering she was a 26 year vet, she caved pretty easily (Imagine what her cop husband must have thought when she was arrested holy f^ck!)
In another video I saw, they stressed how she was lured into that situation by saying it would just be a casual conversation. She never saw it coming. Must’ve gotten rusty in the stolen arts division.
Her facial expressions are hilarious. It's like she never emoted before and is trying all the faces at once. Or maybe a videogame character with their animations turned up to eleven.
@@TechniqueSan lol right!? That's pretty much all I could focus on! I wonder how emotive she normally is in her day to day, going from pretty stoic to this clownery would be pretty suspicious ya know?
I saw the interigation video. She is very disturbed. Based on the time that passed, she thought she got away with it. The saddest part is that she didn't end up with the guy she murdered for. I feel sorry for her husband finding out he was married to a murderer..
Ol' Jim can't swim covered this one a while back, sooooo scarey that she just went back and made a successful career totally blocking out what she had done. Def cold blooded.
I just started watching this other channel that did a really long deep dive video on this case.... It’s off the chain bizarre!! The way the cops just brushed off any theory relating to this crazy biotch is disgusting. (Like we needed any more confirmation that the LAPD is inept)
@Mary Feather The main reason Lazarus killed his wife is because Lazarus is a psychotic murderer. He may not have behaved well but it's a bit of a leap to say he was responsible. Only one person is responsible and she is now in prison.
She incriminated herself at 17:44. The whole time they were asking about Sherri, she acted like she barely knew anything about her. She didn’t even know her name, just that she was a nurse. She never talked about her like she was killed until 17:44. Suddenly she refers to her as the wife that got killed. When they were first asking about how well Stephanie knew her, she never mentioned that she had been murdered. If she had nothing to hide, the murder would have been one of the first things she brought up. This is what it would have sounded like if she was actually innocent. “ oh yeah I remember John. We were friends in college, dated some. We hung out a couple times after college but we just drifted apart. Last thing I heard about him was that his poor wife was killed. That must have been such a difficult time for him. I could tell he was very happy with her.”
"Ohh golly, ohh gee, umm, gosh, umm, I don't know, gee, well it started when I was born.." This woman is straight off her fucking nut. Glad she was finally caught. If you watch her interview, it's next level mental. She's genuinely terrifying with all her facial expressions and just unbelievable level of fake acting. It's like the whole interview is a skit on someone who is over the top guilty..
The husband in this case is really partially responsible. He didn't even mention he had an obsessive ex who was harassing his wife AND SLEPT WITH HER after his wife was dead!
No, I think he did mention her more than once, as did her family several times and her girlfriends! I could be mistaken but want to say I heard it on a documentary about the case. Also the police wanted it to be a robbery. Btw, you are correct, he is still a scumbag!!
Yes I agree. I wonder who the other silent partner is? The one who stole the videos associated with the electronic equipment? Probably another crooked investigating cop involved in a peodophelia racket who Now 20 years later is dead. It's him they were protecting so now it's safe to go for Stephanie. Probably Stephanie's husband Scott, is somehow involved and it's her husband she's protecting.
Yes, but she keeps yapping on and on. She's not acting like a detective. She is wondering if she needs a lawyer. Does she honestly think any cop / detective would tell her yes you need to go get one right now?! 😂
@@aryanbianca3189 yes I think she's a psycho. I think do they call it a sociopath, somebody that doesn't feel real emotions. They think they're smarter than everyone else. Probably why she keeps talkin and talkin.
😂 she said she's been doing this a long time and now she gets the feeling something's being pinned on her. So does this mean she's pinned crimes on other people? That could mean trouble for that department. Any criminals that she's investigated as a detective could now say she pins them for the crime and now they're serving their prison terms and they should be overturned. At the very least they should be looked at. She's capable of murder there's no telling what she's capable of, especially when she says she's done this a long time and she thinks they're pinning it on her.
On the wiki page about this case it says he asked detectives if they were sure that there was no evidence of Stephanie commiting the crime. I’m assuming they told him there wasn’t.
@@starsoverthere they did reassure him that it wasn’t Stephanie which is why be briefly began seeing her again. He asked them that because he initially did think she had something to do with it and there was no way that he was going to be with her again if she did but since the cops were hellbent on it being someone else they assured him it wasn’t her.
Seems like you need to research this case a bit more. He actually did mention her name to the police and they reassured him she had nothing to do with his wife's murder. Believe it or not men are not always the bad guy and they're not always to blame. I know, I know crazy concept right?🙄
Such a cringeworthy interview! “I may have” “I don’t remember” yada yada. Them knowing the whole time they have her DNA. Funny if it weren’t so tragic!
I love seeing murderers squirm like bait on a hook when they're interrogated decades after their crime, thinking they had gotten away with it, only to find out that they haven't.
I can’t imagine living 25 years with the weight of murdering someone...going to work with a bunch of detectives every day... the anxiety would kill me.
If she is a psychopath or a sociopath she wouldn't have the same response to anxiety that the most people would have. I think that the average person would be driven so crazy that they may even confess before they were questioned...then again, the average person wouldn't do what she did in the first place.
Never actively investigated as a person of interest. That's not incompetence it is corruption. They should go back and charge the original investigators. Bite marks, overkill, complaint by parents, knowledge of crime scenes, matching calibre, lost weapon. My grandma could have solved this. Someone should go back and interview the original detectives assigned to this case in a small unheated room.
Johnny Gleason what are you talking about? Yeah in the end she went away. She walked for more than 20 years and the pd looked away because she was one of their own. So much stuff pointed to it being her yet she walked. It’s corruption plain and simple.
I feel like outside of this context, that would and could make sense. Like, you could possibly not know the name of someone's wife, but know from a conversation that the wife has a certain job. But thanks to thinking about what you said, it wouldnt make sense to not know a close friend- turned ex-boyfriend's wife's job, but not her name xD I just think that outside of this context, it WOULD be weird to know the name of your ex-boyfriend's wife. Especially if you dated so long ago.
I love the, "Do you know *name*", "Oh no I don't, oh wait, you mean *pronounces name SLIGHTLY differently* oh ya ya." And then she immediately proceeds to recount everything about their college days, including their dorm's name.
You know, I forget exactly where i read this, but sociopaths are likely to go into power roles I.e. lawyers, police officers... it's only a matter of time
Bent Police officers are vile scumbags. It's disgusting and disturbing that some use their position and reputation to quite literally get away with murder, or attempt to in this case. They're supposed to serve and protect the public not murder them in cold blood. It must be a profoundly sickening feeling to know it was a police officer that murdered your child. Hell mend this bitch, what a truly repugnant person she is.
@@MaliciousChickenAgenda Cops are there to protect property, not people. They serve the rich. They are traitors to their working class. It is that simple: ACAB
One would think that a "veteran detective," would know to shut their mouth and call their attorney as soon as they heard the words "your name being mentioned." Her sentence was way too light. Especially since she enjoyed 20-plus years of freedom that she never should have had.
She did.. as soon as they read her the Miranda warning. Another YT discussed this phenomena with cops trying to talk their way out of trouble. I think he’s right. They (as PO-PO) believe they can get away with it. Plus it’s a matter of saving face with your fellow employees. Then! There’s the awful suspicious behavior if a cop lawyers up immediately. The irony!
I agree about the sentence AND she got her pension!!!! I think she was so Desperate to hear what info they had and in the end, like so many do, she ended up giving more than she got
Well if he did, he's even more of a piece of shit. He literally went on a cruise with Stephanie and continued to sleep with her after his wife's murder.
@@lciav No she did not. Did you forget about Mr Rasmussen? He told police from the start to investigate Lazarus. They told the poor man to stop watching TV. No assumptions- JR KNEW it was her.
@Lakesha Goodwin Shmeeda fam!!! It was just a thcript and I said Whyyyy Stayhven, whyyyyy? LAST QUESTION!!! Oh, and I did check my pictures, it was definitely the Troll vortex.... but we're not here for any reason. 😁😁😁
This woman secretly murdered someone and over the years moved up the ranks of a long time honorable officer. That is actually the most terrifying part of it all.
Foreal though, it's insane!
Some say they swept it under the rug especially in regards to the attention from Rodney King beating.
Indeed.
Actually its not one bit surprising. A lot of them cops are sociopathic. Its easy to blend right in. No offense to honest cops who do their jobs with intergrity
@@spiritwalker9903 I mean, the timeline adds up, doesn't it? Basically an entire generation of senior LA cops retires/dies in that time, then a fresh team get assigned an old case, but the intentional ignorance isn't grandfathered in any more and they approach it clinically.
I did not have homicidal relations with that woman.
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Winner winner!!! That made me laugh out loud literally!!! Good shit!!!
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Don’t worry. You won’t.
This comment deserves more attention! 😊 Bc my opinion matters so much!🙄
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@@richelle7211 AGREE 100%!!!!
I love that the detectives kept telling her she’s free to leave whenever, knowing she was just gonna be arrested as soon as she left lol
Chris Hansen vibes 😂
They had her ice trapped like a rat and prepared to take her down brick by brick…… 23 in all.
@@Butterflyinthesky1507 lmfao!!! Fr!! 😂
Make her feel at ease, so that she stays in the room and incriminate herself some more.
@@cowboy7170Obviously but they kept saying that as she was actually walking out the door to leave. Lol.
I wonder if in 20 years she’ll remember getting arrested for this?
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she will have to check her photo's
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Lmao! 😂😂😂 That was gold
Oh geez
"It took 23 years to solve." Umm, no, it took about 23 MINUTES to solve...you know, once someone cared enough to try and solve it.
Couldn't agree more! 👍
It was solved in 23 minutes. It just took the department 23 years to fill out the paperwork.
As I understand it the case was among several cold cases which were re-opened, on the orders of a senior LA policemen. It seems that at the time of her arrest the LA detectives department was very efficient (obviously they weren't at the time of the murder) and, as a result, actually didn't have many open cases to investigate. The senior cop decided it was a good time to re-open some unsolved cases as his men and women were not particularly busy.
Mike Solved It. It took 30 minutes though.
Yep so true,
I'm so glad that those two investigator's actually took the time to re investigate and didn't stuff around,
At first I thought the lady investigator would be the one to get Stephanie but she walked away cowering cos she got heat from other police officers for pointing the finger at one of their own, I hope she is no longer a police officer cos she won't be solving your loved ones murder,
She drops the case as soon as she gets a bit of intimidation, Pffft
Sherri must have been terrified when this batshit crazy woman crept into her house
Sherri's father told LE she commited the murder. LE ignored him.
Holy sh*t that's terrifying. she's scary when she's trying to be sweet and innocent. I can't even imagine her during a murder.
@Tam Possible Like something out of The Exorcist...
Morgan Stone Right? Have that crazy face coming in to bite you 😳
She's bat shit crazy lol. I wish the victim had a gun to defend herself, may she rest in peace. 🙏
No doubt in my mind the original detectives in this case deliberately buried the case in order to protect her. How sad.
That was the mentality...... the old Blue Curtain.....LAPD was one of the worst.....she was a shitty actress sitting there trying to act like she didn't know what they were talking about.... " A million years ago...." FUCKING killer......😮
Absolutely correct!
Yes facts You can't tell me otherwise they literally seen a bite mark on Sherry a f****** bite mark and did nothing with it You can't tell me that they didn't bury this they knew exactly what happened and that's why me personally I would never trust police officers especially when they be like oh we're going to do our research interrogation on their own trust and believe they're not going to do none of that with their own they're going to make sure nothing happens to me they're going to make sure nothing happens to them and people slowly forget even the ones that don't forget they're going to try to play them like they're crazy or keep telling them we're checking we're looking we're doing what we can when they're absolutely doing nothing they're pieces of s*** not all of them but the majority I said what I said
I actually think the truth is worse. They never even considered the murder being anything other than a robbery gone wrong. They simply did absolutely nothing to truly find the killer.
Yes, the victims father tipped them about Johns ex but they didn’t take up her in the case because she was a cop 👮♀️ 😨
I'm glad her parents were alive to see this woman get put behind bars.
why so mean to her parents?
@@herrschmidt5477 Sherri's parents, not Stephanie's.
Alice the Mad Rabbit amen to that! 🤔🧐😐
I was just wondering if they were
Glad to hear it!
fifty years later.....
She can remember the name of her dorm room in college from 1978, but she can't remember if she ever met Sherri. How convenient.
I wouldn't expect anyone, even a cop, to retain the necessary level of composure required to make it through an interview with murder police. Unless the person had a high psychopathy score.
I was about to say, decades of being a cop and all the promotions, you'd think she'd be really smart with being on the other side of the table. You'd think a couple detectives wouldn't be able to turn her into a bumbling baboon during questioning 🤔
@@chelseapthib36 i thinknits being caught so off guard. If they had given her a day to know what was happening she prob would've been more prepared to answer the questions.
@@kmarshirley i think that's the point in a murder investigation. Catch them off guard. You dont give your #1 suspect in a murder case time to prepare for the interview about said murder, they could come up with all kinda shit. These guys did everything right, 23 years later. Having her think she's coming question a suspect, that way they get her gun off her, cuz you cant have your gun in interrogation rooms. And knowing her Gosh, Gee crazy ass, she probably would have shot them, too, if not.
Lol she remembers what she had for breakfast lunch and dinner when it’s something unrelated, but damn if she don’t get full blown amnesia when they say john or Sherri
, oh gosh I mean gee, it was so long ago, you know? gosh! You can literally see her spinning out, her eyes are manic, if it was anyone else you’d have empathy for someone who’s clearly spiralling in front of your eyes but I’m actually relishing this, the idea of her, being a “respected” detective for years and milking it and now everyone’s gonna know her secret!
Her bite came back to bite her 23 years later 🌚
Witty comment!
Is that a black moon? Lol I dig it
Bars!!!
The postman always rings twice
K-O-R-N-Y...
She fell apart as soon as they mentioned the case. She would have confessed 23 years before, if anybody had bothered to confront her
Exactly!!!
I think she’s too much of a sociopath and would have denied it till her death.
She is probably a bad seed; probably was a very evil child when she didn't get her way.@@CaliCarolyn
She probably knew as a LAPD officer they would overlook her as a suspect. Sherrie's father begged on a regular basis they investigate Stephnie Lazarus, but they ignored him.
@@CaliCarolyn Try psychopath.
"Is your name Stephanie?"
"Well, gee, gosh... I don't know. My parents named me like a million years ago! Umm... I think gosh."
lmao! "did you watch the ball game last night" "Geez i dunno its been like a million seconds since last night,wow so long ago and which game?ya mean basketball or football,i mean a football isnt even a real ball its more egg shaped, so complicated wow im so confused and shocked,"
Laughing at these comments😂
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@@Gos1234567 lol thats funny lol
LMFAOO
She tried SO HARD to act stunned and confused
And her eyes look crazy
She tried so hard it rang all the bells for the detectives who are trained to look for signs
I think the stunned look is 100% genuine. The viper never thought this day would come.
@@kaynucklehead1633 at first it was and she was panicking internally because it came out of nowhere and she thought she was done with it, then she had to start acting.
She sure did!!
Stephanie Lazarus to herself: "Ok Steph, act natural..."
*acts like a pumpkin on LSD*
My favorite comment by far 😂
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Lmaooo must be a whole sheet of LSD I don’t spazz like that on 3 tabs 😂😂
That's a good one
bahahahaha
This case was opened and closed more than someone's front door. I'm so sorry to Sherry's folks.
She had 25 years to prepare for her alibi and yet this is what she came of..........apart from being a murderer,, she is really annoying
She probably thought she's going to get away with it, especially after such a long time so she got pretty overwhelmed.
Didn't they say she was a detective? She's pretty bad at that too.
Ske knew how not to act. What not to avoid answering and she blew it right away then tried to fix it which just made it worse. I laughed the whole way through.
You stole two popular comments from that other video of her case and put them together. So weird.
@@AABB-zb6dv oh yeah is it than look at the whole comment section many comments on the video which got more than thousand like r almost the same,,its just that everyone who is watchng the video will get almost the same feelings,,doesnt mean that everyone steals each others comment,..
EXACTLY!!!!! AND.... she's a seasoned Police Officer wth 😂
She seems like the type who thinks of herself as "one of the guys" but the guys can't stand her.
Hahahaha definitely
Spot on.
Those ones are the fucking worst!
This observation is as exact as they come.
Without a doubt!
23 years she must have felt so safe. i can’t imagine the fear she felt when she heard that name again after so long. nothing compared to the fear sherri must have felt
As someone who is was an adult at the time there were still horrific crimes....
I bet her stomach felt like that moment the roller coaster drops
Bro Imagine this... At every workplace in the world, some people dislike their boss... When she was called for interrogation, she must have told some of her subordinates to get some work done... that subordinate would've cursed her going out of her workplace... Little did they know 😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Being murdered is probably scarier
@amazing supergirl That was addressed in the last line of the op....
It’s the deer-in-headlights look while TRYING to appear calm that brings me enjoyment 🍿
“You’re starting to make me feel uncomfortable.”
Lady, your Jim Carrey expressions are making me feel uncomfortable
I was scrolling for minutes looking for a Jim carrey reference.... thank you sir!
LMAO
Awesome
It happened a million years ago
Awww Yeah Shim Sham and ? tf was the point of saying that
It irritates me that it took her that long to get caught! She got to live her life, get married and adopt a kid. Then again it is satisfying to see her build a life and have it all taken away in a flash like she did Sherri.
Yes but unfortunately they didn’t have DNA at the time
@@georgialee6755 but there were so many circumstances and people that pointed in her direction and they refused to entertain that she could be involved
However...this lady gets to live still...
Trisha It still would not have been enough to convict her at the time. She left no physical evidence that could be connected to her at that time. Not until DNA was available. The DNA was the biggest thing that sealed it. It’s very highly doubtful she would have been convicted at that time. Plus John didn’t believe at the time that she did it and the fact she was a cop. The DNA results did her in
let’s be real, the reason she got away with it for so long was because she was a cop.
Go watch JCS Criminal Psychology’s analysis of the interrogation. GOLD.
I just watched, very rare interrogation: she was tricked into it, hidden camera. Police should do more of such maybe ?
LOVE JCS. 💕
I love both channels, ngl. Really shows what interrogation can do.
@Corby Dorian oh no, they legally tricked a murderous and likely armed abuser of power? How unethical!
Melissa Ann, agreed, lovely video for those who take an interest. They really aced it.
If you drank a shot every time she said "I mean" during that interview, you would pass out before the interview was over.
Hahahaha
Everyone kept saying "you know" and it was driving me koo koo
Detective: Did you ever meet John's wife?
Stephanie: Aw jeez, I don't know? Maybe just that one time when I killed her, but that's been a million years ago!
Sickening
"You'd think I'd remember if I killed her. But it doesn't sound familiar..."
@@markatom7913 "I'm blanking on the name and I'm not sure I ever met her, but I remember exactly know what she did for work..."
Lost count of the number of ""ums " after that question. You can hear the brain cogs turning.
Let me check my pictures!
"Did you know John's wife?"
Stephanie: "🤔😬🙄🥴🤨😬😣😵😖😤"
This is hilarious 🤣
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I don't know why this comment tickled me so😬😉😂
This comment lol, she does have the weirdest expression's!
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This woman makes facial expressions that I didn’t even know were possible.
3minutes yeah the exaggeration is off the charts...all of it.Shes working REAL hard to play dumb and innocent.
Lmao right
They're incredible. The full interview is up on TH-cam and it's amazing how many expressions-particularly one where she opens and closes her mouth as if chewing while "thinking"- she comes up with.
@@prematuretigerflesh7717 Lmao!! Me too.
@@julietallup8720 Damn, you are hot!
One thing that is undeniable is that she has that fixed hollow gaze that a lot of psychopaths have. And to think she worked for a police department.
I'm pretty sure that's one of the requirements, at least for the inferior positions.
Shocker a violent, petty, dead eyed weirdo made it as a cop. Almost like those traits work for it.
Freaky.
Most cops aren't good people.
The fact that the ONLY items taken were John & Sherri’s wedding certificate and the car that John gave Sherri as a wedding gift speaks volumes as to who did this. So obvious it was Stephanie.
They knew but didn't want the negative attention it would bring to the LAPD.
@@Cutie11083 wow I never considered this. All the evidence they had back then led to her so I’m confused as to why she wasn’t even interviewed
The murder happened in the 80s. There were burglaries around the area. DNA was in its infancy. Plus she was a cop.
@@22ergie everybody knew what they meant...
So jealous of the BMW..I bet it crushed Lazarus..all she may have got? Some lame one night stand activity..and I'm sure he was in bathroom after for awhile..lol. (Hoping she'd kick rocks!ha) Maybe a glass of kool-aid from the fridge..that didn't have enough sugar! Just enough in the jug to make you pissed off..haha!! I gotta stop with my smart ass mouth. And bad jokes...
Detective: "What did you do literally last night?"
Stephanie: "Oh gee, oh gosh, I don't know. Gee, I think maybe I had dinner but I couldn't tell you. Gosh, it was so long ago."
Lmao🤣🤣"literally what was ur birthday back then?".....geez let's see?🤔
Gee, oh gosh, i dont know i mean i think i went to dinner i dont remember where, i can recall the waitress her name was Linda she lives two blocks away from my aunt, i think she used to play basketball and tenis back in 83 along side her dog, it was a golden retriver you know? but i dont know abot what i did last night (makes an ugly ass expression)
Bully me all you want I am like that
She'll have to check her pictures probably. 😂🤣
She literally said "gosh, what year is it?" 😂😂
The sad part her parents from the beginning begged them to check her out and no one did!
and john suspected it...he asked the cops were they sure lazarus didn't have anything to do with it...probably cuz he had to urge to tap that again... what a jerk
@@kimmyfreak200 Yep. And they slept together for a few months after she died, smh
@@kimmyfreak200 grief does strange things to a person, and you often don't/can't make the best decisions for yourself. John was probably looking for affection, companionship and a temporary release from the pain he was feeling, and some people can be super manipulative when you're grieving because you're in such a vulnerable state. Stephanie is the type of personality that would have definitely exploited John during this time.
There wasn’t enough Technology dealing with DNA 🧬 whatsoever back then anyway to arrest her - let alone convict her, finding her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Back in those days, she thought she had and she did have all her bases covered.
Kudos: To the parents for hanging on to their daughter’s case like a couple of relentless pit bulls 🌪🐾🌪
DR Correct they needed that DNA match to find her guilty
Mike's presentations are so clean and concise. Thanks
I’ve watched the whole interrogation (around 50 min?) she’s a friggin Looney Tune. Her facial expressions are nutty off the charts.
indeed
Jim Carrey ain't got shit on her
Adam // she could have been a stand up comedian......
Her eyes make me crazy! They are like that all the time. I saw some pictures of her in social settings and the eyes are buggin out!
I K R I thought the exact same thing
The victims father really pushed this case....he never gave up.
Those poor parents. What they had to go through
I know, it's so sad, and they knew who killed her the whole time, I'm glad they got to see her ass put in jail. Finally.
Fucking corrupt pigs did their best to bury it.
@@stacymirba1433 Dn't think so..they had little to go on with. When they started to investigated their only "impossible" lead they found out it was one f their own. They did not intensionately tried t burry it because they knew it was a police officer. It happens..but not in this case. If she was caught back in the day she wuld maybe be released the day she got cnvicted so many years later.
@@Za7a7aZ They had a lot to go on from letters to her mother saying how mad she was, to threatening to kill her in front of co workers, to stalking her, to going over to her house and attacking her before. There was a big neon arrow pointing to her. The pigs protected her.
"Did you ever meet her?"
"Gee..gosh I don't know. I think I may have when I murdered her, but that was like a million years ago."
This is the best one lmao
lol Yeah it sounds like she's basically trying to say "who gives a #### if I killed her WAAAAY back when??? Why ya gonna ruin my life now??"
Golden
😆👏👏👏😆 Brilliant!
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I love how they're like "you're free to leave." BOOM arrested
Well, she wasn't very bright when she declined giving investigators her DNA sample and then ended up giving it to them on a silver platter anyway when she licked her finger to remove her wedding ring when she was being booked.
She brutally murdered Sherri to be with John then she married another dude? Sherri died because of a cheating husband and crazy girlfriend-literally for nothing.
She killed her over nothing, she just didn’t want anyone to have John. But she wanted to move on to advance in her career and life.
Poor woman ..
rip sherri
Nothing good ever comes out of an extramarital affair! Believe that!
Monsters live among us every day. All humans have the potential.
These two detectives on this case did a brilliant job with that interrogation. Their demeanor and everything was golden
The narrator sounds 🔍 Scottish or Welch?
Am I close? 🇬🇧
M. Elgin. Illinois.
The four Van Nuys detectives who reinvestigated the case did a brilliant job. These two detectives didn’t do much - it was already known by this time she did it.
hes irish
@@georgialee6755 wow ARE YOU WRONG. That was a brilliant investigation and even jurors said this interview put them over the top since the DNA was so old.
You need to read up on the case.
These 2 detectives went on to get front page covers on magazines and promotions. good for them!
@The Power Moves imagine being upset a couple good ones got promoted.
Interrogator: What is your name?
Stephanie: 🥴 oh gosh.... 😝 geez.... I can’t say, they named me like a million years ago....
Ashley Thompson 😹😹😹
Ha-ha-ha love it! They named me like a million years ago! Love it!
Lmfaooooo
lmao so manyyy of these comments are stolen from Jim Can't Swim's video 🙄
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According to Lazaus's diary, her partner that day was Stacy Koon who was one of the four LAPD officers involved in the beating of Rodney King which happened just 3 months after Lazarus went down.
Woah 😳
It said In the video that she was off work the day of the murder
Holy crap, SO much corruption!
Nice little tidbit.
@@NoCommentaryInterrogations LAPD was known for corruption. Think Mark Fuhrman who tried to frame a guilty man.
When the detective said "we’re trying to figure out what happened, Stephanie." I bet that was bone chilling for her
she must have been shitting bricks😅
@@rrrrmcg408 definitely was with all that stuttering lol
Bone chilling is exactly the right description. Imagine!!!
the way it was delivered just felt so savage. I think it was saying her name at the end that made it
The Cop is Stupid and a Cold Blooded Killer
She majored in political science in college. She missed her calling. She should have gone into politics - she would fit right in.
Lol 4 real. She would be the mayor of LA by now.
Aint that the truth.rape ,kill ,plunder and pillage and make them pay you to do it.That is their motto ,they must learn it in college,it don't take them long to get it down.She would have made an excellent politician.
She'd've had people to cover for her, then, fer sherz.
@@josephbragg5020 Never would have worked for her, she is a terrible liar.
I'd rather work with stolen art myself!
This really makes me wonderhow many other deaths out there have not been investigated properly because they may be linked to somebody in law enforcement.
BINGO!!!
A ton.
RIGHT!!
Patrick C or somebody in a high position like a government official.
Answer: Millions!
I knew this case already. One of the more peculiar things about it was that a witness had seen a woman with "crazy eyes" leaving the scene of the murder. On the footage that you have shown here, it is hard to notice but she really did have the weird habit of widening her eyes all the time. It looked unsettling and little crazy. 🤪
I kept waiting for you to mention her "crazy eyes" but you never did...
"It's hard to notice" -eerh, not exactly 😄
She has the craziest eyes 👀 I’ve ever seen they shoulda arrested her immediately!!🥹
Lol same here. I remember the story because of the crazy eyes and then they'd show a picture of her Manson lamps
Wow, I didn't know that! I hope the victim family sued the police department!
Did her slapping the desk a sh*t ton bug the crap out of anyone else?
You'd think a cop would know: 'Don't talk to the cops.'
They initiated the interview by saying they needed help with a case.
@@joesickler5888 yeah they knew she would be suspicious if they just called her in about Sherri. Im sad for her husband - his side chick killed his wife.
@@sagalahmed8876 I'm not one bit sad for John. He lead Stephanie on and even fucked her while he was engaged. And not only that he had the voice to scream from the rooftops that she should of been the main suspect but sadly he did not. He's got blood on his hands also. I feel bad for poor Sherri and her family. Not that scumbag John.
Chris Watson 100% agree. No sympathy for John.
@@cwatson42785 i agree, but the psycho had sex with him AFTER she killed his wife to console him - i would be sick forever if i was him.
It's crazy that while being a cop herself she didnt realise that talking to 2 cops in the interview room is a bad idea. Glad she got caught afterall.
Guilty people, in an attempt to look innocent, will try to speak to the cops alone as 'only guilty' people use lawyers.
Since she got away with it for decades, she probably figured she had it beat.
Nephylim more accurate to say anyone who wants to appear innocent mistakenly does this - including actually innocent people. Media intentionally portrays people being silent other than demanding a lawyer as horrible, guilty people.
And she spoke in circles and wayyyyyyy to much detail about things (tings?) She was supposed to not know shit about. Classic gulty manuvers. Someone innocent would say something like, i dont fucking know what are you on about. A two decade old cop. That is our police system.
Also chuck a Z in that word realise for me. Since my last name is Zahajkaisvdidddjd
“I mean...geez, gosh..that was during a lunar eclipse, uh..geez, you know, gosh. I think, uh..the sun was up that day. I don’t know, uh, it’s been so many years. Was that when sand was on the beach? Geez, you know? Gosh, oh, O.j. Simpson was acquitted in ‘94-‘95. But yea, I dated John..gosh, you know? Geez, Is that when Jurassic park was released?”
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😂😂😂 That’s Hiiiilarious!!!
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Why is it so comforting to hear that Mike cares about us? We love you, too, Mike. Take care of yourself.
It is, isn't it? I love him.
And that's why he's my favorite TH-camr. I have a feeling Mike doesn't throw those 3 words around without meaning them.
I always reply "I love you too Mike!"
Love this guy 😊
She graduated at the Chris Watts School Of Acting Innocent.
She graduated with honors haha
Lmao yes
She graduated with horrors
Chris Watts would be proud of her
I bet her GPA was in negative
“I don’t recall killing her, I may have, Jesus, this is millions years ago! Do you remember all people you killed in your life?”
And make no mistake those officers definitely have
“Oh geez let’s see I was born in 1960 and I was a baby but that was so long ago gosh um and then I lived in the dorms and gee I got married… what year is it now? Why does this matter it was like a million years ago,,,what’s this about again?”
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Baha
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My Dad worked with her a few times during the time she committed the murder. He testified in her murder trial and always said she was a very strange woman.
Your dad was hitting crazy?
shino88 lmfao 😂😂😂💀💀💀💀
MKM so....do you know who your mother is by chance?
strange in what ways?
Proof or it didn't happen
There is no way in hell this case should have gone on for 23 years. If I was the COP of the LAPD, I'd publicly embarrass the original detectives who were initially assigned the case. They knowingly violated their oaths as both LEOs and detectives. At a minimum they were inept, at the maximum they were corrupt and they violated the public trust.
At the time they couldn't match DNA. She knew how to cover the tracks that they had the technology to follow.
That was back in the days where they would find evidence and go "Well we're never going to find out who did this unless somebody gets busted for something else and gives up his accomplice."
I can pretty much guarantee you it was the latter because it happens too often.
Y’all should watch the entire interrogation. She is crazier than crazy.
Jim Can’t Swim has an excellent analysis if you haven’t seen it yet, would recommend!
bananasinfrench I just commented about how weird it is that this popped up cuz I just watched his video on this last week. This lady is INSANE. How nobody put this together in the 20 years after the murder is baffling. How did the husband not just know she did this?!?! Shits crazy.
I think JFC psychology has it? He breaks it all down. She’s a nut
You want crazy? Just think she was wearing a badge 😱
@@wubqueen yeah, I've seen that one before. It's really good. I love how he breaks down the suspect's actions and words during the interrogation
It's amazing how our bodies will betray us the second we realize that we're totally fucked
wait, what do you mean?
@@finerotime5103 How people naturally react to being confronted about something they know they did. Their body language and stumbling to explain themselves is a dead giveaway.
He body language started oozing with guilt as soon as her ex’s name came out. Look how many deep gulps she took early on. She is scrambling around, hitting the table, stuttering, etc. she knew she was caught immediately.
That is why i just lie about everything, that way i always look and act suspicious and guilt is baseline for me.
@@tylerskiss A rather unorthodox way to live tbh.
Them: We understand. You are free to go whenever you like
Also them: Arrests her right outside.
LMAO you are free to go for 30 seconds.. lol
Same thing Chris Hanson says, just before they get the beat down outside the door.
Lmao 😂 she was like my facial expressions helped me get out of this.. oh wait Nevermind
ROFL
Kinda underhanded to video tape it in secret and not mirandize her right away... but they got away with it because it was just "cops talking about a case"
dirty!
@@Scorch428 what? They DID mirandize her immediately. Did you skip parts of the video? Her interview started with her being read her rights.
Until I watched this, I thought the old saying about jealousy "raising it's ugly head" was just a figure of speech.
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"You're free to leave whenever you want, you're not under arrest"
takes 2 steps out the door
"ok NOW you're under arrest"
LMAO
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Bawwwhawhaw
Psych!
I wondered why they did that though. Why not just disarm her and shock her
Good old Stephanie, cannot give a concise answer to any question. “Did you know the victim?”
“Well let me start at the beginning. During the Big Bang the universe expanded, and I think that was about 13 billion years ago...”
lol too true
13 billion years ago , I mean gosh , that’s about the time I met John ........
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Bowman Wright 😂😂
Bowman Wright bullshit on both accounts
Gotta give those detectives credit for actually CARING about the case and wanting to find the truth. This sick woman probably would never have been caught if it weren't for those guys.
@littlesmew they weren't the ones who shot down that female detective though were they?
@tony montana They did reopen the case and lead the investigation against her. I call that solving the case.
@tony montana I don't understand what that has to do with what I said?
Well, to be honest, they NEEDED to care, they only started to investigate this case again because of low crime rates in LA in that year so they were pressure by higher ranks to reopen cold cases.
Hooray for the few honest and honorable cops out there! They are TRUE heros!
Dude this guy is so great to listen to, and watch, because he adds a sense of humor but not in poor taste. Also the amount of work he puts in to these videos blows my mind. I have seen this story a few times before, mainly her interrogation. He always has all the footage, 911 calls, pictures, videos, like anything that was ever available he will get it. Love this site. I realize I'm late to the party, seeing its like 4 years old, but keep on going, and just wanted to show my support!
Do these cops know something 🤔 😂😂
Her eyes terrify me. She doesn't smile with them and she looks crazy.
She's out of her mind imagine meeting her on a dark night lol
My first impression was exactly the same. She has what i call it the "crazy Bird Eyes".
In my experience those look in the eyes and the person says good mornin' to you, possible she had lied twice to you, so far.
G.W. Bush jr. and Lance Armstrong same look, sorry Texas not personal....
best regards from god od Germany
Lazarus then went on to have sex with Sherri's husband, so the murder is bound to have crossed her mind while she had her victim's husband's cock inside her. That is a sick mind.
@@TheMatty583 You forgot AOC.
.... that makes her guilty??? I’m not a fan of hers but looks shouldn’t matter... that’s why so many blue eyed blondes and handsome serial killers get away with so much....just saying!
She's giving Morty a run for his money with amount of "jeeze" 's in that interview
Ha!!! She is!!!
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She is a morty from the Citadel
Pickle Mike!
I cant believe she wasn't questioned and caught in the first place, she absolutely lost it when cornered. Even I could tell that she was lying through her teeth. She also has crazy eyes that make her appear terrifying.
But her teeth told the truth in the end. .!
Anyone watching the video could tell, because we were told beforehand.
LAPD was/is known for coruption and dirty cops.
They cared more about the force's reputation than justice being done. It's not the first time this has happened and it won't be the last.
Wearing the badge, puts you above the law.
She definitely went on the defensive really fast before they even hinted at her being under investigation.
I’ve never seen someone snap so hard under pressure, it’s almost hard to watch her absolutely crash and burn. She was never prepared for this moment at all, that was very clear
If she were smart she’d have ditched her identity and went to a foreign country and changed her appearance. Preferably, a non-extradition country.
She should’ve known when forensics and DNA came about that one day she would get caught.
There’s only so much you can do to change crazy eyes. That should’ve been a dead giveaway already
Hard??? It was entertaining as hell.
@@tamaracoba I mean in an oof cringe kind of way, like a trainwreck I can't look away from. I can't even count how many times I've rewatched her interrogation interview now, it's too good!
Stephanie did go through the case records for Sherry's murder many times as well as keeping tabs on the case . The female detective that worked the cold case found the DNA tucked away somewhere else,thankfully.
I had heard she or someone close to her actually destroyed some of the DNA evidence and they were lucky enough to find some other DNA evidence in the evidence.
Chris Watson
Holy shit that means she thought she was scott free
Weird that she didn’t just smugly oblige to a swab thinking* they were bluffing with the DNA angle
Considering she was a 26 year vet, she caved pretty easily
(Imagine what her cop husband must have thought when she was arrested holy f^ck!)
@@cwatson42785 The officer kept it stashed in her drawer thinking she would definitely need it and low and behold she did.
She says: "Now I wish I recorded this."
Cops: We got that covered.
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Hahaha, made me laugh when she said that.
"Maybe a burglar was the sentimental type, well, they were half that word", I see what you did there 😂😂
He’s such a excellent storyteller ❤
You would never know she was a detective the way she handled herself.
Facts! She folded so fast lol
Yeah seems she would have been able to trick the fact o meter
In another video I saw, they stressed how she was lured into that situation by saying it would just be a casual conversation. She never saw it coming. Must’ve gotten rusty in the stolen arts division.
Her facial expressions are hilarious. It's like she never emoted before and is trying all the faces at once. Or maybe a videogame character with their animations turned up to eleven.
@@TechniqueSan lol right!? That's pretty much all I could focus on! I wonder how emotive she normally is in her day to day, going from pretty stoic to this clownery would be pretty suspicious ya know?
Stephanie: "What year is it now?"
Smooth Steph. Real smooth.
She kinda sounds like Dory if she was being interrogated for murder.
Omg, she does
That was fried gold, I'm going to chuckle over the Dory comment.
Bingo.
God damn you I can't unhear it now.
🎵Just keep talking..Just keep talking 🎵
Wait...crap
I saw the interigation video. She is very disturbed. Based on the time that passed, she thought she got away with it. The saddest part is that she didn't end up with the guy she murdered for. I feel sorry for her husband finding out he was married to a murderer..
Ol' Jim can't swim covered this one a while back, sooooo scarey that she just went back and made a successful career totally blocking out what she had done. Def cold blooded.
John boy I know right 😳 omg 🤔🧐😐🤢🤮?!
Good night John Boy.
JCS leaves lots of facts out and purposely misleads his audience about cases
@@AnonYmous-wm6wq Like what?
I just started watching this other channel that did a really long deep dive video on this case.... It’s off the chain bizarre!! The way the cops just brushed off any theory relating to this crazy biotch is disgusting. (Like we needed any more confirmation that the LAPD is inept)
I love hearing about this case because Stephanie’s facial expressions and shitty lying are just amazing
It's like we see the same behavior in the current leader of the free world or something.
@@lazchurchyard1229 😆😆😆 ya know you def got a point. Just pictured his faces and your absolutely spot on lmao
Hahahahaha "shitty lying"
@@lazchurchyard1229 Thank you kindly. excellent comment! God bless.
She had a botched facelift ,allegedly, hence funny face expression
THIS MAN NEEDS HIS OWN TV SHOW, HE IS BY FAR THE BEST TRUE CRIME CHANNEL ON TH-cam....🖤🖤🖤🖤
Agreed!
he has one. this is it. you're here.
Latasha Willis look at (jim cant swim)
There are quite a few popular true crime channels. It's all personal preference. Mike is my personal preference. 😁
AH young jedi, you've not discovered JIM CAN'T SWIM channel yet
She obviously attended the Prince Andrew School of Lying. 🤣
😂😂😂
HAHA! Good one!
😂🤣
Nice..... 😂💀💀
Im told that its not such a good school, but who knows, maybe its just a lie🤔...prince Andrew didnt pass for sure though🤥
Sherri Rasmussen was beautiful and lazarus has severly crazy eyes, who has eyes like that
My ex husband,
sociopaths and ppl with NPD have those crazy eyes
People like her, just nutcases
Brock Sampson
Aileen Wournos
Did John never stop to think: Hey it could have been Lazarus with them crazy eyes?!
He probably played a small role in it, and if he didn't, hes such a shit cop why is he even employed?
Mary Feather umm no she made that decision herself. She was stalking him and wouldn’t leave them alone.
@Mary Feather The main reason Lazarus killed his wife is because Lazarus is a psychotic murderer. He may not have behaved well but it's a bit of a leap to say he was responsible. Only one person is responsible and she is now in prison.
No doubt
I bet that's why he moved towns right after. Bitch is crazy.
She incriminated herself at 17:44.
The whole time they were asking about Sherri, she acted like she barely knew anything about her. She didn’t even know her name, just that she was a nurse. She never talked about her like she was killed until 17:44. Suddenly she refers to her as the wife that got killed. When they were first asking about how well Stephanie knew her, she never mentioned that she had been murdered. If she had nothing to hide, the murder would have been one of the first things she brought up. This is what it would have sounded like if she was actually innocent.
“ oh yeah I remember John. We were friends in college, dated some. We hung out a couple times after college but we just drifted apart. Last thing I heard about him was that his poor wife was killed. That must have been such a difficult time for him. I could tell he was very happy with her.”
They mispronounced Rutton's name on purpose, to see how she would react.
Well put 👏 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍
They had her DNA , so the jig was up
"I don't know" "A man I dated a million years ago" and then... "His apartment on Roscoe". Psycho.
I don't remember anything! Oh yeah she died in 1986
“Wha wha wha whuh sis all about?” Watch the whole interrogation! Just the facial expressions she makes are psycho.
"Ohh golly, ohh gee, umm, gosh, umm, I don't know, gee, well it started when I was born.."
This woman is straight off her fucking nut. Glad she was finally caught. If you watch her interview, it's next level mental. She's genuinely terrifying with all her facial expressions and just unbelievable level of fake acting. It's like the whole interview is a skit on someone who is over the top guilty..
“I’ll have to check my pictures”
Yeah she didn't know, it was so long ago and then suddenly she knows all these details? Bad actress as well.
Detectives: did you know the victim?
Her: 😳well😅 um 🤔 jeez 😖 like 😲😬 you know 😮 😧um 😬oh gosh😅 no 😬 I mean, yes😳 um 😬 was she a human?😟☹ um, who?😅 😮😬 .
for real man i was like "She lying like a rug!"
Audrey P - Well said :-)
*_TheMADAM_5150_*
You're so right❗
Everytime she tells a lie and becomes nervous , she slaps her hand on the table.
😂🤣😂
Fc*king alien talk! 👽What a space cadet! 👩🏼🚀☄️💫🪐
The husband in this case is really partially responsible. He didn't even mention he had an obsessive ex who was harassing his wife AND SLEPT WITH HER after his wife was dead!
He slept with Stephanie while he was engaged as well!!! SMH
I bet he truly thought it was the burglars because of how she set it up and he probably wouldn't think his ex would do something like that
+ she is a detective so she is very manipulative
No, I think he did mention her more than once, as did her family several times and her girlfriends! I could be mistaken but want to say I heard it on a documentary about the case. Also the police wanted it to be a robbery. Btw, you are correct, he is still a scumbag!!
Yes I agree. I wonder who the other silent partner is? The one who stole the videos associated with the electronic equipment? Probably another crooked investigating cop involved in a peodophelia racket who Now 20 years later is dead. It's him they were protecting so now it's safe to go for Stephanie. Probably Stephanie's husband Scott, is somehow involved and it's her husband she's protecting.
It's so sad Sherri told her parents but they couldn't save her. She obviously knew it was coming, poor girl, rest in power sis
Sherri , baby ❤
Man the fear she must’ve been feeling in her stomach in that interview when she knows she’s been caught
yes thats wat i wanted to say
Psycho's don't feel Fear!
Yes, but she keeps yapping on and on. She's not acting like a detective. She is wondering if she needs a lawyer. Does she honestly think any cop / detective would tell her yes you need to go get one right now?! 😂
@@aryanbianca3189 yes I think she's a psycho. I think do they call it a sociopath, somebody that doesn't feel real emotions. They think they're smarter than everyone else. Probably why she keeps talkin and talkin.
😂 she said she's been doing this a long time and now she gets the feeling something's being pinned on her. So does this mean she's pinned crimes on other people? That could mean trouble for that department. Any criminals that she's investigated as a detective could now say she pins them for the crime and now they're serving their prison terms and they should be overturned. At the very least they should be looked at. She's capable of murder there's no telling what she's capable of, especially when she says she's done this a long time and she thinks they're pinning it on her.
I have a hard time believing John didn’t at least suspect Stephanie had killed his wife...
On the wiki page about this case it says he asked detectives if they were sure that there was no evidence of Stephanie commiting the crime. I’m assuming they told him there wasn’t.
@Studious Emma Looks like someone from Jpop group Keyakizaka. But I could be wrong. Looks like their costume from Silent Majority.
@@starsoverthere they did reassure him that it wasn’t Stephanie which is why be briefly began seeing her again. He asked them that because he initially did think she had something to do with it and there was no way that he was going to be with her again if she did but since the cops were hellbent on it being someone else they assured him it wasn’t her.
Why would he, though? I mean, gee... gosh... That was like a million years ago!
Seems like you need to research this case a bit more. He actually did mention her name to the police and they reassured him she had nothing to do with his wife's murder. Believe it or not men are not always the bad guy and they're not always to blame.
I know, I know crazy concept right?🙄
Such a cringeworthy interview! “I may have” “I don’t remember” yada yada. Them knowing the whole time they have her DNA. Funny if it weren’t so tragic!
it's still pretty funny, tragedy and all
Evan Martin well, you know; just being diplomatic! Lol!
Shes was trying to play dumb But she played too dumb
It became abit of a meme at this point
She Yada yada'd murder.
I love seeing murderers squirm like bait on a hook when they're interrogated decades after their crime, thinking they had gotten away with it, only to find out that they haven't.
I can’t imagine living 25 years with the weight of murdering someone...going to work with a bunch of detectives every day... the anxiety would kill me.
What do you mean
25 plus years... Crazy bitch still hasn't admitted to it. No weight for her bc she's insane
That's cuz your wired the right way. This one doesn't have a full village in her head.
If she is a psychopath or a sociopath she wouldn't have the same response to anxiety that the most people would have. I think that the average person would be driven so crazy that they may even confess before they were questioned...then again, the average person wouldn't do what she did in the first place.
She has no soul.
Never actively investigated as a person of interest. That's not incompetence it is corruption. They should go back and charge the original investigators. Bite marks, overkill, complaint by parents, knowledge of crime scenes, matching calibre, lost weapon. My grandma could have solved this. Someone should go back and interview the original detectives assigned to this case in a small unheated room.
Your grandma can’t solve a tvguide crossword puzzle
*overly heated
Absolutely! It’s corruption not incompetence. Protect and serve their own isn’t it
Conroyrofl ummm no shes in prison until she dies. So No. learn your facts. Stop watching CNN.
Johnny Gleason what are you talking about? Yeah in the end she went away. She walked for more than 20 years and the pd looked away because she was one of their own. So much stuff pointed to it being her yet she walked. It’s corruption plain and simple.
She didn’t remember her name, but remembered she was a nurse? And then the awful acting “Sherrie? Shellie? I can’t remember.”
I feel like outside of this context, that would and could make sense. Like, you could possibly not know the name of someone's wife, but know from a conversation that the wife has a certain job.
But thanks to thinking about what you said, it wouldnt make sense to not know a close friend- turned ex-boyfriend's wife's job, but not her name xD
I just think that outside of this context, it WOULD be weird to know the name of your ex-boyfriend's wife. Especially if you dated so long ago.
I love the, "Do you know *name*", "Oh no I don't, oh wait, you mean *pronounces name SLIGHTLY differently* oh ya ya." And then she immediately proceeds to recount everything about their college days, including their dorm's name.
@@ichigokarasu shelia, shamala, jerry, graceton. I can't remember
@@IDK-kv8ob Shoobeedoodoo? Shamalamadingdong? Mergatroid? Those are all names of people *I've* personally known.
@MoonChild Johns apartment on rosco.before the house with Sherri somewhere in van nuys
A detective understanding and being worried about how they pin things in people is priceless.
The demoms r laugh 😃 at her !!
😂 yes , yes 🙌 😂
Disturbing thing is how many other "above suspicion" police have got away with the same?? Frightening and quite sickening.
You know, I forget exactly where i read this, but sociopaths are likely to go into power roles I.e. lawyers, police officers... it's only a matter of time
I know I am surprised higher ups didn’t keep it close
Too many...blamed the latinos instead
@@samuelvazquez6762 Cops have a "no snitching"/"stand by your brothers" "code" just like gangs do. It's extremely telling.
@@TK2692 and then expect mothers to turn in their children. Smh sickening
I really despise this woman and every person who protected her.
Bent Police officers are vile scumbags. It's disgusting and disturbing that some use their position and reputation to quite literally get away with murder, or attempt to in this case. They're supposed to serve and protect the public not murder them in cold blood. It must be a profoundly sickening feeling to know it was a police officer that murdered your child. Hell mend this bitch, what a truly repugnant person she is.
@@MaliciousChickenAgenda Cops are there to protect property, not people. They serve the rich. They are traitors to their working class. It is that simple: ACAB
Makes you wonder how many other cases like this there are out there that will never be solved.
@@AppalachianCryptidDoge I try really hard to not think about things like that. It helps keep the gun barrel away from my head...(jk)
@@MaliciousChickenAgenda _Hell mend this bitch_
what an absolutely fantastic phrase
Guess taking the marriage license wasn’t the biggest clue ever?! And Sherri’s car which was a wedding gift from John! 🤷🏽♀️
Yes!!!!! The license was the whole symbol of their being married
John knew. Hopefully, he will get Justice one day too.
Why only sentenced to 27 years??? Should be life without parole
Especially after being free for 23 years.
@@Al-Rudigorit was 27 to life.
@@Faretheewell608 👍
@@Faretheewell608now she is eligible for parole in 2024😮
The wild faces this woman makes while being interrogated are so insane. Such a sad, senseless crime.
The operative word being: insane. She's batsh*t crazy.
One would think that a "veteran detective," would know to shut their mouth and call their attorney as soon as they heard the words "your name being mentioned." Her sentence was way too light. Especially since she enjoyed 20-plus years of freedom that she never should have had.
Psychology betrayed her
She did.. as soon as they read her the Miranda warning. Another YT discussed this phenomena with cops trying to talk their way out of trouble. I think he’s right. They (as PO-PO) believe they can get away with it. Plus it’s a matter of saving face with your fellow employees. Then! There’s the awful suspicious behavior if a cop lawyers up immediately. The irony!
She was tooo arrogant to do that.
I agree about the sentence AND she got her pension!!!!
I think she was so Desperate to hear what info they had and in the end, like so many do, she ended up giving more than she got
Well she does ask for a attorney she didn't give anything up
I'm sure deep down in his heart John Rutten knew it was her.
DAMN right he knew!
That's true and he didn't report her then moved away, wonder if he had something to do with it even if not should be charged for withholding evidence.
Well if he did, he's even more of a piece of shit. He literally went on a cruise with Stephanie and continued to sleep with her after his wife's murder.
What an evil man
@@lciav No she did not. Did you forget about Mr Rasmussen? He told police from the start to investigate Lazarus. They told the poor man to stop watching TV. No assumptions- JR KNEW it was her.
I remember this story. Some people are so deranged. If I went mental every time someone picked someone over me, I'd have quite the body count.
😂
Legends has it she still doesn’t know what this is all about. It was a million years ago. This is 2009.
Ahhhhhh shut up wouldn't ya?
Time slips inevitably by. Actually it's the year 2020.
legend has it, you stole this comment from another youtube video covering the same subject!!!
@Lakesha Goodwin Shmeeda fam!!! It was just a thcript and I said Whyyyy Stayhven, whyyyyy? LAST QUESTION!!! Oh, and I did check my pictures, it was definitely the Troll vortex.... but we're not here for any reason. 😁😁😁
@@jltaco85 definitely stolen! The other comment had 4k likes so this person wanted them likes 🙄