Selena and I love all the CSI shows (except Miami but that's another blogpost) and we are going through a little bit of withdrawl during the summer months as we have to wait until fall for the new episodes to watch. But wait!
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a very real CSI episode played out in the LAPD last week.
The Times reports:
Shortly after she sat down at her desk on the third floor of LAPD headquarters Friday morning, Det. Stephanie Lazarus was told a suspect in the basement jail had information on one of her cases. The 25-year police veteran went quickly downstairs.
As Lazarus removed her firearm to pass through security, she unknowingly walked into a trap. There was no suspect -- only questions about a terrible secret police believe she has been harboring for more than two decades.
The article explains that murders in LA are at historic lows and the detectives have had time to go back through cold cases. In 1986, a nurse was murdered. Detectives had been searching for two male victims that had committed some crimes right around the same time as the nurse was murdered. DNA samples from the case were tested recently and revealed that the probable murderer was a woman. Lazarus had contact with the victim and was promoted to the prime suspect in the case. Only a few people in the LAPD knew about the investigation as they did not want to tip Lazarus off that she was a suspect. She was followed by other detectives for a period of time in order to collect a DNA sample. They got a sample compared it to the one left at the murder scene and it matched.
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-detective-arrested6-2009jun06,0,6286885.story
It is quite the amazing story. It was also cool that she was caught with many of the police techniques that we watch on CSI. I have a feeling that we might see this real life story show up in a story line in the upcoming season.
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