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Jurors deliberate fate of "hit-and-run grannies"

By Jacqueline Dowd

Jurors are deliberating the fate of two elderly women accused of killing homeless men to collect insurance money, after a prosecutor said the women had gone "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.

Read the Associated Press report here.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on April 15, 2008 (boomark / email).