Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Arsenic & Old Lace
It's not just a play anymore. According to the LA Times, two old ladies are accused of taking in homeless men and taking out insurance policies on them before taking them out.
The septuagenarians stand accused of murdering a pair of Los Angeles homeless men in a chillingly deliberate scheme that required them to feed and shelter their victims for two years -- the period after which insurance companies often cannot contest policies -- before crushing them to death under cars in dark alleys.Who says it doesn't get cold in LA?
"They waited for two years, with murder on their minds each of those days," Deputy Dist. Atty. Truc Do told jurors in her opening statement. "They started this murder plot with greed, and you're going to see that even when the jig was up, these defendants remained greedy."
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