Matthew McGough, The Lazarus File, The Atlantic, 2011

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• In 1986, a young nurse named Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in Los Angeles. Police pinned down no suspects, and the case gradually went cold. It took 23 years - and revolutionary breakthroughs in forensic science­ - before LAPD detectives could finally assemble the pieces of the puzzle. When they did, they found themselves facing one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.