US: court told women targeted the homeless for insurance money

Olga Rutterschmidt is seventy-five years old. Her friend, Helen Golay, is seventy-seven. The Los Angeles District Attorney told the court that te pair had received insurance benefits totalling USD2.8 million from policies held by Kenneth McDavid and Paul Vados.

The allegations are that the two met the homeless men in a homeless shelter - left along with no relatives or anyone else to miss them. They fed them and put them up in rented flats - for as long as two years.

During that period, the two women allegedly took out several life insurance policies on each man.

Then, once the policies were two years old, bringing them beyond the period where life insurance companies might challenge the validty of the policies, the two women lured them, individually, into an alley and ran them over, says the District Attorney' s Office.

73 year old Paul Vados was run over and crushed in 1999, and a near identical repeat in LA in 2005 put paid to Kenneth McDavid.

So far there is no word as to what the women spent their takings on.