krismasstercant t1_j9ty9wu wrote on February 24, 2023 at 3:22 PM

Reply to comment by seizethedayboys in Suspect arrested in 2001 killing of a pregnant soldier at a former U.S. Army base in Germany by StevenSanders90210

I mean hell you have someone like Stephanie Lazarus who got away with murder for almost 40 years until the police found new evidence in the case.

WaluigiIsTheRealHero t1_j9u1uub wrote on February 24, 2023 at 3:46 PM

Lazarus got away with it for so long because she was an LAPD officer and other cops either didn’t really investigate or outright buried evidence of her guilt.

kaloonzu t1_j9u9w4p wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:38 PM

And the only reason it was even looked into again was because the LAPD needed to increase its number of cases cleared when crime slowed down in the mid-2000s.

crimson__wolf t1_j9w3w48 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 11:50 PM

Fuck. The victim's father kept hounding the police chief about the LAPD officer that she was threatening and stalking his daughter just before her murder too! He tried for 5 years then gave up when they told him to stop watching too much television!

Cold case tested the DNA and found it was from a woman, so they dismissed the random robbery idea. Then saw the complaints by the father, then followed the lady officer until she dropped something with her DNA and matched it. Then they told her that someone in county jail had new info on cold case murder, so she went to check it out, but had to surrender her gun to get into county jail. But this was a trap so she wouldn't be armed when they arrested her.

Ok_Store_1983 t1_j9ucmr6 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:55 PM

For anyone interested, her interrogation video on Jim Can't Swim is very interesting. It's clear she went into it thinking it to be routine interview and nothing more.

AintEverLucky t1_j9vscf0 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:28 PM

Am watching this video right now, and you're not wrong, it's fascinating. But I wonder how the investigators avoided that getting tagged as entrapment?

keskeskes1066 t1_j9w886y wrote on February 25, 2023 at 12:21 AM

That is not entrapment. Entrapment is when, in the most basic sense, it occurs when a government official, such as a police officer, uses threats, fraud, or harassment to induce or coerce someone to commit a crime they wouldn't ordinarily commit.

Oh, and when you claim entrapment as a defense, you have to admit to having committed the crime. That is why politicians always make claims about entrapment in front of a TV camera, but never in front of a judge.

BTW, IANAL so YMMV.