![]() ![]() Alexander is also the director of Brothers in Arms, a documentary film about John Kerry and Vietnam (First Run Features).Ī graduate of The University of Alabama and The Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, Alexander is a member of the Authors Guild and PEN American Center. Edge toured Australia and New Zealand and enjoyed a second run in New York. Developed at The Actors Studio, Edge, the critically acclaimed one-woman play about Sylvia Plath, ran in New York, London, Los Angeles, among other cities. Alexander is the author of the plays Strangers in the Land of Canaan and Edge, which he directed. Shane Salerno’s forthcoming feature documentary Salinger is based on Alexander’s biography of J.D. A leading journalist for many years, Alexander has published eight widely praised books-among them Rough Magic, a biography of Sylvia Plath the bestseller Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean and Salinger: A Life-and over one hundred major articles for publications ranging from The New York Times to Rolling Stone.īesides the bestselling Kindle Singles Murdered, Accused, and Homicidal, Paul Alexander has published eight previous books of nonfiction: Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath Rough Magic, a biography of Plath Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean, the bestseller that has been published in 10 countries Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race For Andy’s Millions Man of the People: The Life of John McCain The Candidate, a chronicle of John Kerry’s presidential campaign and Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove.Ī former reporter for Time, Alexander has published journalism in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, The Village Voice, Salon, Worth, The New York Observer, George, Cosmopolitan, More, Interview, ARTnews, Mirabella, Premiere, Out, The Advocate, Travel & Leisure, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Biography, Men’s Journal, Best Life, The New York Review of Books, The Daily Beast, and Rolling Stone. In true crime, Paul Alexander is the bestselling author of the Kindle Singles Murdered, Accused and Homicidal. ![]() The most shocking part of the story is the identity of the killer. It is written point-of-fact, with all of the details of the case laid out neatly before the reader in police procedural style. This is a book that one wishes were fiction. Then, they started to investigate Lazarus based on Rasmussen’s suspicions on record in the file. They discovered that the saliva could only have come from a woman. ![]() In 2009, the Cold Case squad in the same building as Officer Lazarus re-opened the Rasmussen case and examined the DNA swabbing from the bite-marks on Rasmussen’s arm. ![]() Yet the only thing missing from the scene was a marriage certificate. The story here begins on the night of Februand involves three people, certainly one of them innocent the victim-Sherri Rae Rasmussen-was bludgeoned, bitten, beaten, and then shot to death in what was made to look like a botched robbery. His daughter had said that Lazarus had been "stalking" her, but Rasmussen was summarily dismissed by police and told that he should "Stop watching so much television." After five years, he simply gave up. Nels Rasmussen, the victim's father, had, some twenty years prior, pleaded with LAPD to take a look at Lazarus as a possible suspect. What had once seemed unthinkable, had suddenly become a reality. LA Police Officer Stephanie Lazarus became the center of national attention in a sensational trial in Los Angeles in March 2012 as the accused murderer of Sherri Rasmussen, her ex-lover's new wife of only three months. ![]()
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