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The Lazarus Files
- A Cold Case Investigation
- Narrated by: Matthew McGough
- Length: 27 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
This program is read by the author.
A deeply reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect - a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks.
On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene suggested a ferocious struggle, and police initially assumed it was a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri had confided to her parents that an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los Angeles police officer, had threatened her. The Rasmussens urged the LAPD to investigate the ex-girlfriend, but the original detectives pursued only burglary suspects, and the case went cold.
DNA analysis did not exist when Sherri was murdered. Decades later, a swab from a bite mark on Sherri’s arm revealed her killer was in fact female, not male. A DNA match led to the arrest and conviction of veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus, John’s onetime girlfriend.
The Lazarus Files delivers the visceral experience of being inside a real-life murder mystery. McGough reconstructs the lives of Sherri, John, and Stephanie; the love triangle that led to Sherri’s murder; and the homicide investigation that followed. Was Stephanie protected by her fellow officers? What did the LAPD know, and when did they know it? Are there other LAPD cold cases with a police connection that remain unsolved?
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- Woolly
- 21-05-19
Interesting case but too long a story......
An incredible story. But way too long. Too much detail and often repeats itself.
The narration is very monotone making this a hard book to finish.
It’s a shame when the author has spent many years investigating a high profile case such as this.
I like a long book, but this I’m afraid I was glad to reach the end.
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- Ann T
- 08-07-23
Very interesting
This was a very interesting book.
The fact that it took him 9 years research it was amazing loved it .
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- Paul Tomkins
- 04-04-24
Masterpiece
I don’t think I’ve ever read or listened to a murder book that takes longer than the length of other entire books just to get to the event (9 hours, after a brief outlining at the start). But once I got used to the usual awkward author narration, I found I knew the protagonists and the antagonist extremely well by the time of the murder. That was unique.
And that’s the beauty of this book - so much detail, and at times you wonder why, but then it builds up a picture. It goes off a tangents, then brings it back together.
It’s written in fairly simple English, with the detail in describing so much that happened, via meticulous research. Well worth persevering with.
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