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 ...

Stephanie Lazarus, 52, waved to her family and smiled broadly as she entered the courtroom on Friday. She was similarly upbeat as she left the courtroom, even after hearing tearful testimony about the ...

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.

Stephanie Lazarus, a Los Angeles police detective who was convicted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife, appears in Los Angeles County Superior Court in June 2009. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Stephanie Lazarus was a respected LAPD detective. What no one knew? She was also a killer. In 1986, she murdered the woman who married her ex — then buried the truth for 23 years. Until one tiny DNA ...

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 ...

Stephanie Lazarus, who was an L.A. police detective when she killed her former boyfriend's wife in 1986, was recommended for parole by a select committee Thursday. Lazarus, 63, was convicted in 2012 ...

A Los Angeles police detective has been charged in a 1986 murder. Stephanie Lazarus is accused of killing the wife of her ex-boyfriend. The department is under fire for how long it took to arrest the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Los Angeles police detective faces 27 years to life in prison when she's scheduled to be sentenced Friday for murdering the wife of her former lover in 1986. Stephanie ...

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.