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NEWS FLASH: COPS TAPE RECORD JAIL CELLS

By Walin & Klarich

While this headline might seem so intuitive as to border on the humorous, a recent case in Los Angeles reveals that there is some benefit in conveying this message. According to CNN.com, the case involves two elderly women who are alleged to have hatched a scheme to befriend transient men, take out hefty insurance policies on their lives, and then drug them and, while the men were drugged, to run the men over and kill them ? making the accidents look like hit and run accidents involving homeless men. Then, allegedly, the women, beneficiaries under the policies of insurance, could collect the benefits. During the trial of the two women, the prosecutor in the case played a tape recording allegedly made of the women when they were in custody together...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).