Casefile: Sherri Rasmussen's Murder and a Shocking Suspect

Los Angeles, February 1986. A newlywed comes home to her condo. Hours later, her husband finds her dead. The scene looks like a burglary gone wrong. It wasn't.

Sherri Rasmussen was a young hospital nursing director with a bright career and a brand-new marriage. In Casefile's Case 42, the show's anonymous host walks through her final days in his calm, measured style. He lays out the scene, the early police theory, and the details that never quite fit.

What makes this episode stand out is the slow build. Casefile sticks to the record and lets the facts pile up. A crime that investigators first treated as a random break-in turns into something far more personal. The case sat cold for decades. When it finally cracked open, the suspect was a name that stunned even seasoned true crime fans. We won't spoil it here.

So how does a murder go unsolved for so long when the answer may have been closer than anyone wanted to look? And what did investigators miss, or choose to ignore, in those first critical days? Press play tonight and listen on Apple Podcasts, or find Casefile wherever you get your podcasts.