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Despite a campaign by justice reform advocates, the California Board of Parole Hearings has revoked plans to release former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus from prison after hearing emotional testimony ...

Grim-faced LAPD officials announced the arrest of one of their own for murder Friday. Detective Stephanie Lazarus was a patrol officer when she allegedly murdered her ex-boyfriend’s wife 23 years ago.

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 ...

Lazarus will remain in custody pending a suitability hearing within 120 days. The former Los Angeles police detective convicted in 2012 of killing her ex-lover's wife was denied parole on Wednesday in ...

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 ...

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 -- The former Los Angeles police detective convicted in 2012 of killing her ex-lover's wife was denied parole on Wednesday in the 1986 murder and will continue to serve her 27 ...

Despite a campaign by justice reform advocates, the California Board of Parole Hearings has revoked plans to release former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus from prison after hearing emotional testimony ...