48 Hours: Behind the murder trial of an LAPD cop

Sherri Rae Rasmussen

Sherri Rae Rasmussen

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(CBS) The murder of 29-year-old hospital nursing supervisor Sherri Rae Rasmussen in 1986 is one of the most tumultuous cases ever to confront the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Sherri Rasmussen-Stephanie Lazarus case airs on 48 Hours: "One of the Their Own," Saturday, May 26, 10 p.m. ET/PT

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Witness: Suspects in Cipriano case planned attack

Tucker Cipriano

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(CBS/WWJ) FARMINGTON HILLS - Tucker Cipriano and Mitchell Young, accused in a baseball attack that killed Cipriano's father and critically injured his mother and brother, planned to kill a family weeks before the attack, a witness testified. Wednesday was the first day of testimony in the preliminary trial of Tucker Cipriano, CBS Detroit reports.

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Mich. teens charged with murder of elderly guard

Photo by the Detroit Police Dept. shows Alandre Boone. Boone and another Detroit teenager were arraigned in May 23 on murder charges in the slaying of an 84-year-old church security guard

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(CBS/AP) DETROIT, Mich. - Two Detroit teenagers are being held without bond on murder charges in the shooting death of an 84-year-old security guard in a church parking lot, CBS Detroit reports.

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FBI indicts 18 in pancake house crime ring

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(CBS/AP) CLEVELAND, Ohio - Authorities indicted 18 people on Wednesday in an IHOP crime ring that resulted in more than $3 million in losses at seven restaurants and the use of 200 illegal immigrants to work at them, CBS Cleveland reports.

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Volunteers retrace route of missing U. of La. coed

Michaela "Mickey" Shunick

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(CBS/KLFY) LAFAYETTE, La. - Dozens of searchers gathered Thursday to retrace the route thought to have been taken by missing Louisiana college student Michaela "Mickey" Shunick the night she disappeared.

Pictures: La. college student missing after bike ride

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NH man gets 50 years in drug dealing mom's death

Anthony Papile looks back at his family after being sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday, May 24 in Carroll County Superior court, in Ossipee, N.H.

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(CBS/AP) OSSIPEE, N.H. - New Hampshire man Anthony Papile was sentenced 50 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the disappearance and death of 20-year-old drug dealing, Maine mother Krista Dittmeyer last year.

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"Cake Boss" kin sentenced for child sex assault

"Cake Boss" star Buddy Valastro's brother-in-law sentenced for child sex assault

Remy Gonzalez

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(CBS/AP) MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Remigio "Remy" Gonzalez, brother-in-law of Buddy Valastro of the TLC reality TV show "Cake Boss," has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in New Jersey.

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Man to plead guilty in drug dealing mom's death

Krista Dittmeyer

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(CBS/AP) CONCORD, N.H. - Anthony Papile, a New Hampshire man implicated in the disappearance and death of a drug dealing mother from Maine, is scheduled to plead guilty Thursday,  CBS Boston reports.

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Sierra LaMar murder suspect to appear in court

Antolin Garcia-Torres is seen in this picture provided by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office May 21, 2012.

Antolin Garcia-Torres is seen in this picture provided by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office May 21, 2012

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(CBS/AP) SAN JOSE, Calif. - Santa Clara County prosecutors said 21-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres, who is the man accused of kidnapping and the murder of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar, is scheduled to make his first court appearance Thursday.

Photos: Arrest made in case of missing Calif. teen

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A man drives around with a parrot and a zebra...

Yes, that's a zebra, and a parrot, in the front seat of a vehicle whose driver was cited for DUI, after he parked outside a bar in Dubuque, Iowa with the animals in his truck.

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(CBS/AP) DUBUQUE, Iowa - If you drive around with a parrot and a zebra, you're probably going to attract some attention. Which, it seems, is why an Iowa man who parked outside a Dubuque bar now finds himself charged with drunk driving.

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