Valkyrae Reacts To The Interrogation of Stephanie Lazarus (JCS - Criminal Psychology) 

What is my dogs name? Well jeez. Gosh. Let’s see… Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492… was it a smooth sail? I couldn’t even tell ya! But the alphabet begins with A and ends with Z… geez. Golly. Gosh. I mean it’s been a million years ago! What’s this all about?

Lol imagine getting caught 25 years later because the police department got bored! 🤣

If you really think about it she would have gotten away with the murder if she never bit her. 🧐

it's so painful to watch her act confused for an hour

she remembers the things from “a million years ago” that have nothing to do with the murder, but when it comes to the murder she has no recollection…

when they said she's a cop i thought she's gonna be smart

The amount of times she said “jeez” “i don’t know” “a billion years ago” “UMMM 😕😧” IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

So she remembers the silliest things and doesn't remember getting dragged by the police out of the hospital, or ever being cheated on. That's how you know someone is lying.

she’s been on the job for 20+ years and didn’t realize she was being suspected of the murder lol. just kept feeding them more info to build a case against her

Why r y’all blaming the husband? No matter how bad you think he treated her, the ex is still the one who brutally murdered her, she’s the only one to blame here.

It’s so funny how she tries to look so confused XD

people like Sherri don’t deserve for their murders to be unsolved for 23+ years… nobody does

I love how she remembers so many small details of random stuff but anything pointing towards the person she murdered, "oh gosh, jolly gee, uhhhhhhhhh, I don't recall, I don't even know who I am, what's my name again?"

Jokes aside, after the person is dead. Long dead. Why would you BITE THEM?! If it was the first thing she did fair play, but she literally went through several stages of overkill and that got her caught

tbh the amount of guilt pain and sorrow john must have felt especially, considering the fact that he was involved with stephanie during before and AFTER his marriage to sherri and post-her death is probably huge

Bro these cops are good at interrogation that smooth excuse of "we don't want to start rumors about your private life because you have a husband yourself" was excellent. If that was me I'd prolly give a half ass excuse 😂

She looks like a creepy doll some ventriloquist would have in the depths of her basement. She's so expressive she might as well be a clown. The whole investigation was basically a joke anyways, let's all get a laugh out of the circus in this video. She is legitimately creepy, and she seemed guilty to begin with. She gives me the same vibes as the behavior a Karen will give you when they start to lose the argument

“she’s been acting baffled for an hOuuuR” lmao

"Oh jeez!" "So long ago" "You know" **shrug** "What year was it?" "Umm..." **shrug again** "I mean.." "Whatever" **more shrugs** "Not ringing a bell"

“L.A Noire requires you to read subtle facial cues to tell if someone is lying” The suspect in L.A Noire :

Her : I don’t know him Also her : “describes his whole life and family’s life’s “

She's seriously saying that she can't remember fighting her but yet can remember a damn earthquake

yes he cheated on her but he didn't want her to die. people can be complicated we ARE complicated.

The drawings of the men who did the other burglaries in the area look like Richard Ramirez and a friend! The time period checks out too… WOAH

Detective: How long did you know him for? Stephanie: According to all known laws of aviation....

I love how she remembers directly where the brother of the guy studied but not how long they dated “jeez”😂😂

She does the same thing with her face that Trump does and it hurts me physically.

they couldn't match the dna cause the technologies were not great back then, but also he explains she was already on the force when this happened so they ruled her out as a suspect even if family had called her out for her behavior towards the victim.

This is the "Old Person" tactic, a shit ton of random information that is just about them enjoying something unrelated to the topic

This woman is insufferable. "So did you know this guy?" Her eyes = ↓↓←←↑↑↓↓→→↓↓←←

What’s scary is she seems so normal at first until they bring it up.

Interrogations are so fascinating. How the steps progress and how the mood and energy in the room change from the beginning of it to the end is so crazy.

Valk is going to be a god in among us after watching these

I love JCS Psychology's videos and the fact rae is reacting to them is giving me the content I didn't know I needed but I definitely want

Apparently if you cheat on someone you're not allowed to be sad that they've been brutally murdered.

The interrogators already went in with the prior knowledge that the DNA matched. So it becomes somewhat of a cat and mouse game. But from her total dread making her not able to remember and speak normally ever since the officers said John Rutten, and "his wife" all you know you have to do is keep pushing, with Stephanie being able(edit) to detect as little as she can about the intent. But if Stephanie would've been smart and realised the officers would need to know more already for them to ask her about the case NOW, then she could've wrapped the whole thing up right after it became clear they were on to her murder.

“She’s so expressive. Like dramatically expressive. Is that gonna be me when I’m 50?!” 😂 lol. But Also Rae’s expressions are Gold, it adds to her comedy and why we love her so much she’s awesome.

"I know how this stuff works" she says, while falling for every trick in the book

I'm imagining Rae as a cop and just letting out that sharp loud laugh she does whenever Sykkuno would blatantly lie in Among Us.

Them: Hello, how are you? Her: Oh, gee, I don't know, I mean, gosh, umm... *weird confused face*... I'm fine, I suppose, you know. What is this all about?"

She’s getting annoyed by how long and repetitive it is but sadly this is what cops deal with every day is people talking like her, and y’all wonder why cops are sometimes short with people who do this

Props to the investigators for keeping her inthe The room for so long and sliding into the accusations do smoothly

I am shocked she didn't ask what a death 2 decades ago has to do with art and then focus on that, but if she was that intelligent I suppose she wouldn't have become a killer/cop.

Am I the only one who gets so creeped out by her facial expressions and how wide her eyes are?? I’ve watched so much true crime stuff and it doesn’t faze me but she actually scares me. She’s just so uncanny, like somehow she looks like someone pretending to be human idk how to explain it

Did she just say she was a DARE OFFICER?! Could you imagine if your former dare officer got arrested for a murder from BARELY A DECADE BEFORE THAT??

2 notes. 1. When she does that thing with her lip when they ask her the question, it reminds me of a Jim Carey movie where he couldn’t lie. Of topic but it’s ok. 2. I don’t know why many people are confused about how he felt. Yes he cheated but that was still his wife. No one expects to lose someone you know let alone love in such a horrific manor.

Wait…. So she can easily remember what floor her friends were on in college but can barely remember when she met her husband?

20 minutes in and im going insane at how much she’s going “i dunno” “a billion years ago” “umm” “jee” “golly” “gosh

"I wanna see her face!" Oh just you wait lol

I’ve been just cringing for, golly gee, just about the whole video. I feel like I have paused this every 2, 3, maybe 4 minutes? Jeez, I don’t know, it’s been so long since my last pause. I don’t really know how long I’ve been watching this video - it has been so difficult to get through. Oh, the time stamps for every single time I paused? Yeah, I can give you that no problem, but what’s that got to do with this anyway???

I was high key irritated and annoyed by her acting confused and stuff😆 “gosh” “gee” “jeez” “ummmmm” and her facial expressions dude.

Sad thing is she's been living her life with no remorse for DECADES, and she didn't even end up with the dude! Sherri must've been a beautiful soul because, if it had been me, I would've had to haunt the hell out of her every single night since!

The faces she’s making are killing me 😭😭💀😂

Ppl speaking on the husband... Stephanie is a horrendous evil woman who murdered Sherri in cold blood. John being devasted and have to re live and feel guilty for his wife's death would be normal and heartbreaking. It showed he did love her even if he did cheat when he was young. It's weird for ppl to even comment on him when there's a murderous woman to blame

How did someone who's such a bad liar avoid getting caught for 23 years?

PLEASE make a video of Valkyrae reacting to the case of Chris Watts if you have the video of it!

Half of the things they could’ve done 23 years ago were not possible back then due to lack of tech and equipments.

She's the physical embodiment of the word "freaking out".

When all you want to say is “sorry, I don’t remember”, but you need to reach the word count of the essay.

Someone's gotta have played a drinking game for every time this lady has said "gee, gosh, god", done that short "ackh" whenever she's tried to "remember" something, said "it's been so long ago, such a long time ago, a million years ago", shook her head, and has gone on a rant. They'd probably be knocked out before the interrogation was over.

38:31 That took me out 😭😭 "What is she doinggg"

I hope rae could learn knitting while watching this kind of stuf, so she can knit and watch, LOL. While we watch her and knitting ourselves, millenials are the new boomers.

How many times you think the phrase "I'm going to f-ing jail" went through her mind during that conversation?

the amount of times she says the lines like “oh gosh” or “oh yeah um” drives me insane

It’s crazy this woman got away with murder for 23 years

she could rly do well in the field of animation. animators could just stick some trackers on her face and let her talk about stuff, and they would get all sorts of facial expressions, maybe even all humanly possible facial expressions

The idea of cops luring someone into an interrogation room and them not even knowing that their being interrogated is amazing.

Yeah, that look on that woman's face in the thumbnail is low-key terrifying.

Out here eating strawberries and oranges watching Rae get progressively more upset at this woman, what is my life rn lmfaoooo

I wanna know what the reaction of the family was to knowing that Lazarus just got arrested for murdering someone so long ago. I’ve heard from another YTer who talked about this case saying that she was a soccer mom and all that plus her husband is also on the force. She acts like a normal parent and wife and then the family finds out she has this past. Like how does one react to that? Are they in denial? Do they still talk to her? What do/es the kid/s think? What does the husband and other family members think?

Her: “I may have met her.. i don’t remember” Also her: “so we had about three conversations at her work”

I think she’s not a good liar, idk her face already look suspicious

The fact that she is saying she “might” submit to a DNA test or a swab (she’s leaving herself room to say “no” later), not “yes, I will submit, because I know that will prove I’m innocent,” is a powerful indicator of her guilt. She has no reason not to cooperate with them. She hasn’t been charged with anything at this point, she has not been arrested yet, she has absolutely nothing to lose, and yet she hesitates to commit. Why is that? Because she knows the evidence will probably prove her guilty.

rae would be the worst interrogator.... "i know it happened a long time ago!! think!!!" !PUNCH! "THINK"

Something that isnt being said here though. All creds to the investigators. Holy moly, top class right there.

my baby cousin looked at her face for 2 secs and was upset because she “looks like a clown”

I see a lot of times where it seems she tries to appear like she’s willing to provide info but only have trivial info. Rather than closed off and has good info on the murder or any combo of those. It’s a tactic in counter interrogation to seem like you’re extremely willing to share info but don’t actually know anything of merit. Those people can be passed by easily.

Rae doesn't have a clue when the DNA sampling was discovered. I just facepalmed when she said, "why didn't they do the same thing 23 years ago?"... just wow.

I feel really sorry for Stephanie Lazarus’ husband. Can you imagine how hurt he must have felt? When he learned that his wife was going to prison for the 25-year-old murder of the wife of a former lover. She had likely committed that murder before he even knew her.

She lived 23 years without getting caught, can't relate, the guilt would kill me and I would just confess to it

"Oh jeez, oh god, uh, pffffff.... oh gosh oh golly i don't know it was like pffffff a million gollyjees ago oh gosh pfffffffffffff...." "Stephanie I asked for your birthday."

THE ENDING SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME LMAOOOO

If these videos have taught me anything its if you are about to be interrogated, guilty or not, always ask for a lawyer because you cant handle it lol

Ultimate Friend Zone- Imagine dating for 4 years for her to say "Yea, we were good friends"

It's crazy to me that you could murder someone and then get away, living your life for the next two decades thinking its all behind you- on top of that you're a cop so it seems you would be the least suspicious- until suddenly it finally gets back to you while conversing with your coworkers. That's so crazy!

im just going through all the reaction videos of this to see how people react to the part at 38:28. "What is she doooing?!" lmfao i cant :DD

You know how she said she was teaching dare in Oregon? She taught me dare in Oregon 😐. That's actually unnerving

Thank you for adding the content warning clip each time!

to answers Rae's question "why couldn't they do the same thing before [get Stephanie's DNA]" on 4:13. In my opinion, they never suspected Stephanie for 3 reasons I could think of. The first being Sherri was murdered in 1986 and when police started using DNA samples to discover the criminals it was during the same years, so DNA testing was relatively new. However, I can see why Rae thought they should've done that before. The second reason ties into the first is that there were identified suspects already so they didn't seem to need to search for other suspects when a witness said they saw them. Even though they never caught the suspects there is still a third reason why Stephanie was never caught at that time. Stephanie was already 2 years into the police force, and usually back then you wouldn't expect a police officer to commit murder. So, she was right under their nose for 25 years, which was smart in my opinion. Nevertheless, Stephanie did not process that DNA testing would advance to what it is now or the time she was arrested. So in a nutshell, don't commit murder bc forensics are so advanced nowadays that even leaving a strand of your dog's hair could get you caught LMAOOO

Rae's question at 4:04 had been answered at 2:28

how tf did i pull through her denying and acting shocked for an hour

NEW GAME!! Every time she says: “Gosh” “Golly” “Gee” “What year?” “Billion years ago” TAKE A SHOT

What’s crazy is that I has to watch this same video and write a paper about it for a final project so it’s funny to watch Rae react to it for fun

I’m loving these reaction videos, I’m a true crime fan and I never knew you did reaction videos 🙌🏼

Thank you for not pausing the video every 20 seconds to interject like other commentary videos do! Doing a commentary video doesn't mean you have to be constantly talking all the time. It also doesn't mean that you have to try super hard to be entertaining or totally embellish every reaction. Most of us just want to see a somewhat normal human beings reaction, and so thank you lol. You earned my sub!

her: he had a good friend mike beaudry, mike... me: mike hawk

I love Rae, as soon as she realizes cc is off she turns it on and restarts the video. c:

49:58 ive never laughed and cried all at once, this is a new one for me saddest shit i ever heard right there

To answer her question...Stephanie WAS a suspect before. It's possible the police at the time tried to help her cover it up. They got a lot of tips about Stephanie being the murderer. It took cops who didn't know her personally. This is why it's such bs whenever police say they're "investigating" their own.

rae missing the narrator was so funny