L.A. Murder-for-Profit Case Goes to Jury

L.A. Murder-for-Profit Case Goes to Jury

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Jurors began deliberating the fate of two elderly women accused of killing homeless men to collect insurance money, after a prosecutor said the women went "out of their way to target men who had nothing."

Helen Golay, 77 and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, are accused of befriending two homeless men, taking out life insurance policies on them, and then collecting on those policies by killing the men in hit-and-run accidents.

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I just wonder what these two did when they were younger! It's unlikely they embarked on a life of crime after they were 70--they must have begun much earlier. I can't explain why we, as a society, see "little old ladies" as completely harmless, but we do, and this story would be funny if it wasn't about murder.

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