john rutten's ex-girlfriend, stephanie lazarus.called the rasmussens. >> we came home and there was a message that there was a detective that wanted to talk to us, and i thought, oh, yeah, right. i thought it was another false hope. >> reporter: this is detective nutall. >> he said that they were opening the investigation. >> they were upset with me, it was like, detective, where have you been for the last two dec e decaddecade s. >> reporter: and now, nells rasmussen explained it all saying that someone was stalking his daughter sherry, a woman with crazy eyes. the ex-girlfriend of sherry's husband. nell's had never known that the girlfriend's name was stephanie lazarus. but he did know something else about her . something very important. and by this time, detective nutall knew it too. >> he was very cautious with what he said, but he said that we would be hearing more from him. >> nutall had reason to be cautious, he learned that stephanie lazarus wore the same badge he did. >> you now have a los angeles police officer as a perso