Sprocket) when Detective Nuttall picked up the cardboard box containing the four murder-book binders that had been waiting patiently on his desk for many months, opened the case file and started looking at the crime scene photos with fresh eyes. The cold case was solved in 2009 by the Van Nuys Homicide Unit ( Detective Rob Bub, unit supervisor, Detective James Nuttall, Detective Pete Barba, and Detective Marc Martinez, a fabulous group of cowboys. Her body was discovered around 6 PM that same day when her husband, Ruetten, came home from work. Perry for the February 1986 first degree murder of Sherri Rae Rasmussen, a Glendale Adventist critical care nurse and the new bride of her ex-lover, John Ruetten.įor those of you living in a cave, Rasmussen was badly beaten (her face disfigured), bitten on the forearm and shot three times in the chest in her Van Nuys town home, sometime in the morning hours of February 24th, 1986. 104 of the downtown Criminal Justice Center (CJC) former LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 52, will be sentenced by Judge Robert J. Now I have to get in line.Īt 8:30 AM PT today, in Dept. I was just catching up with Steven Mikulan. I believe it's going to be video taped today, but I don't believe it will be live streamed. I got to meet Sherri's cousin, who could not attend the trial. There are many more members of Sherri Rasmussen's family here. John Ruetten, his sister Gail Lopes nad possibly her husband are here. I'm going along with fellow contributor CaliGirl9's insightful guess that Lazarus will be sent to the same facility as the Manson girls. I will have much more about the sentence, when she will first be eligible for parole, etc., either later tonight or tomorrow morning. Judge Perry did not add any statements or comments to reading the sentence into the record and the calculation of her credits so far for time served. In less than 30 minutes, it was all over. DDA Shannon Presby was asked to read a statement for Nels Rasmussen. John Ruetten's voice broke into sobs many times during the reading of his statement. Sherri's mother Loretta spoke first, then her sister Teresa then her sister Connie. I will have her statement up on T&T when I write my update. Judge Perry did not allow Sherri's former roommate, Jayne Goldberg to read a statement since she was not a direct family member. It could be because Judge Perry did not allow it. I thought for sure that someone from Lazarus' family would address the court but they did not. The last sentencing hearing I attended (Tyquan Knox case) the defendant's mother addressed the court. Lazarus' husband Scott Young was in the gallery along with several other of her family members. She did not have her hair back in a ponytail it did not look like it had been brushed. She was in an orange jail jumpsuit, not civilian clothing. According to the District Attorney's press release, she showed no emotion during the sentencing. She kept her head down and turned slightly to her right, away from the media video camera that was set up in the jury box. I could not see Stephanie's face from where I was sitting. As soon as I rest up (and get my kitchen cleaned up from this morning) I will put up my notes. The heat in the Valley is a bruiser today. March 8th, 2012 at the reading of the verdict
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