Topline: A state parole board Wednesday rescinded parole for Stephanie Lazarus, a former Los Angeles police detective who murdered her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986.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.

Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her husband of three months, John Ruetten.

Stephanie Lazarus was convicted of murdering Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old hospital critical care nursing director, who was shot three times in the home she shared with her husband, John Ruetten.

A former Los Angeles police detective was convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 2012, more than two decades after Sherri Rasmussen was killed in her Southern California condo.

The fifth suspect was Stephanie Lazarus, Ruetten's ex-lover from college. Ruetten told Detective Nuttall that he had already given Lazarus' name to the LAPD 23 years ago.

A chance for parole has been delayed 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 was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her husband of three months, John Ruetten.