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Detective Story

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

When Sherri Rasmussen is found murdered, police are convinced it’s a burglary gone wrong. The case remains unsolved for over two decades until another detective finds the key that unlocks the mystery of what actually happened to her. Josh Mankiewicz reports.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This was an up close in personal fight.

0:04.0

While she was down on the ground, three rounds were fired.

0:08.0

All of them were hit.

0:10.0

He opens the door and sees his wife.

0:14.0

She had obviously been killed.

0:17.0

What happened? Why?

0:19.0

When you heard the bird-wreet theory, that makes sense to you?

0:22.0

No.

0:23.0

I just came to the conclusion that it was never going to be solved.

0:27.0

I saw that a bite swab had been collected by the coroner's office.

0:31.0

There should be a DNA.

0:33.0

It indicated the suspect that had bitten Sharia Rasmussen was actually a female.

0:39.0

Now it becomes a matter of time.

0:43.0

That moment, that call, you'll never forget it.

0:46.0

That changed everything.

0:48.0

This plays the everybody's favorite conspiracy theory that cops cover for other cops.

0:53.0

No matter what, you're out of your mind.

0:55.0

We made a determination.

0:57.0

We'd never say her name.

0:59.0

We referred to her only as number five.

1:01.0

Nobody would ever know who she was.

1:10.0

December 1985, for many families, a typical Christmas.

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