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 ...

LOS ANGELES — A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986.

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 (KABC) -- A Los Angeles police detective who killed her ex-boyfriend's wife but was only caught after more than two decades may soon be released from prison. The California Parole Board on ...

LOS ANGELES — A jury Thursday found former Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus guilty of murdering the wife of a man who had spurned her, bringing an end to a remarkable case in which a new ...

LOS ANGELES — A now-former Los Angeles Police Department detective’s bid to be released from prison on parole in a murder case suffered a setback Tuesday, with the state parole board ordering a new ...

A state parole panel has blocked the release of former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus, reversing an earlier decision that could have freed her from a life sentence for the 1986 murder of her ex-boyfriend ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife ...

Stephanie Lazarus, 52, was found guilty in March of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her husband of three months, John Ruetten.