The only other item besides Sherri’s car that was stolen was the couple’s marriage license. Police found Sherri’s BMW two miles from the couple’s home ten days after her murder. The keys were still in the ignition. She did not call the police as she had not heard any gunshots. Sherri’s murder would be one of 831 murders to occur in Los Angeles in 1986. Through canvassing the neighborhood after Sherri’s murder, detectives found a housekeeper next door who heard what sounded like a domestic situation in Sherri’s unit. Once down the assailant fired the first of three shots hitting Sherri in the chest. The killer then got a quilted blanket off the couch and used that to muffle the sound of two more shots to Sherri’s chest. Two additional shots were taken and shattered the sliding glass door. The vase was smashed over her head incapacitating her. Perhaps due to the bite mark found on the inside of her left forearm. At one point Sherri may have gotten her attacker in a headlock, but was unable to hold it. Detectives theorized that Sherri Rasmussen and her assailant had fought for the gun. The living room seemed to be the area where the fight had mostly centered.
This suggested that Sherri tried to get out of the unlocked front door or hit the panic button on the alarm panel. A bloody handprint was found near the front door. Backing up this theory was the discarded stereo equipment stacked near the steps leading to the third floor.ĭetectives surmised that while one of the burglars was ransacking the living room the other had surprised Sherri upstairs where a ferocious fight began. Sherri was 29-years-old, 6 feet tall and in good shape from working out. They thought Sherri Rasmussen had interrupted the intruders and paid the ultimate price. There was a broken porcelain vase scattered over the living room floor along with a partially collapsed entertainment center. There were documents littering the floor from a dumped-out drawer. Detectives immediately began to form a theory of a botched burglary. When Detective Mayer arrived they found a ransacked scene in the living room, but no forced entry into the home. Upon entering he saw Sherri lying on the living room floor, dead. She had been shot in the chest still wearing her nightshirt and bathrobe. She also looked to have been severely beaten in the face.
John used the door from the garage to go up into the second-floor living area. John thought at first perhaps Sherri had hit her side mirror pulling out as she had damaged her car antenna a few weeks earlier doing the same thing. This had seemed to come from the shattered sliding glass patio door. What surprised John is that when he and her sister tried to reach Sherri throughout the day to check on her there was no answer and the answering machine was not picking up. Their habit was that the last one to leave would turn on the machine while they were both out. Another surprise for John was noticing broken glass near the garage door entrance.
Earlier that morning before John left at 7:20 am, Sherri didn’t feel well and planned to call off sick.
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