My friend Matthew McGough's book, The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation, will be released on April 30, 2019. So I have one more night of morning watch. I was supposed to work on 2-26-85, but I really didn’t feel like going to work so I called for a T/O and got it. We booked him for Wife Beating and Wayne wrote the report and I booked. She had filed a ADW report against him last week. He said he didn’t call, but we asked to speak to his wife. We got to the location and the husband answered the door. Then we got a call at 0615 a poss attack susp. Then we went to the taco shop and got something to eat. Wayne didn’t want to eat, so I lifted weights. We sat in waiting room (Queen of Angels) and ate sandwiches and cookies and watched TV. We found out she wasn’t raped but they did the medical exam.

She was so hysterical we didn’t get the full story from her until about 1 1/2 hours later. She was on the corner of Santa Monica / Wilton waiting for the bus and 2 guys came up behind her, dragged her into their car and took her behind the Sears. At first I thought she might be retarded, but she was just upset. I don’t know why, it’s a crummy neighborhood.

Well I thought this was going to be a good rape. So we go over to the call (Ridgewood) and this white man greets us. In roll call today Ofcr Koon made Sgt so they had a singing telegram for him. This diary entry is from February 25, 1985, 34 years ago today.At the time, Stephanie was a patrol officer assigned to the LAPD’s Hollywood Division.

Lazarus was convicted of first degree murder in 2012, a trial I covered from gavel to gavel.Įarly in her LAPD career, Stephanie kept a diary of her daily patrol rounds. In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in her Van Nuys home.Ģ3 years later, in 2009, LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus was arrested for the crime. Stephanie Lazarus In Her Own Words (Part III, )

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