A California parole board has rescinded parole for Stephanie Lazarus, a former Los Angeles Police Department detective convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986. Gov. Gavin Newsom had previously asked for a full board review after the initial grant of parole.
A state parole board Wednesday rescinded parole for Stephanie Lazarus , a former Los Angeles police detective who murdered her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986. Lazarus, 64, spent more than two decades with the department before she was arrested for the murder in 2009.The case attracted national attention when detectives used DNA to identify her as the killer 23 years after the murder of Sherri Rasmussen. Lazarus was a 25-year-old patrol officer at the time of the killing.
Rasmussen’s friends and family pleaded with the board to keep Lazarus locked up. At a previous hearing, one of the LAPD detectives who investigated Lazarus, John Taylor, said he believes Lazarus remains “fully capable of the level of savagery and violence that she perpetrated on Sherri.”A state parole board Wednesday rescinded parole for Stephanie Lazarus, a former Los Angeles police detective who murdered her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986.
Rasmussen’s friends and family pleaded with the board to keep Lazarus locked up. At a previous hearing, one of the LAPD detectives who investigated Lazarus, John Taylor, said he believes Lazarus remains “fully capable of the level of savagery and violence that she perpetrated on Sherri.”
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