Yes.
Do you want to talk to us right now?
No.
All right.
This is crazy. This is crazy. I’m in shock. I’m totally in shock.
She got up and walked out of that interview room on her own. In the hallway, with the recorder still running, her own fellow officers were waiting. She was placed under arrest before she made it out of the building. When she was brought back into the same room minutes later, it was in handcuffs. The law, and it was no longer unclear which side of it she was on. She had been a twenty-six-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, by all appearances a model cop. Yet Stephanie Lazarus now faced murder charges. Prosecutors said that almost twenty-five years ago she beat and shot the wife of an ex-boyfriend, and that DNA evidence proved it.