Two Elderly Women Jailed In Deadly Insurance Scam

[WhiteTara]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/22/AR2006052201359.html
LOS ANGELES, May 22 -- Two elderly women devised a complex plot in which they befriended homeless men, took out life insurance policies on them, and then killed the men in hit-and-run accidents in alleys around Los Angeles to collect $2.2 million in payments, police said Monday.

The women are linked to two deaths, one in 1999 and one last year. Los Angeles police are reviewing other hit-and-run accidents involving transients in a search for more possible victims.

The women were arrested last week after police investigating them began to fear for a third man's life, police said. The women, who remain jailed, were arraigned on eight counts of mail fraud, and the FBI froze more than $2 million in assets between them. They have yet to enter a plea.

"While our initial presumption was these women probably had some accomplices to run these guys over, the detectives are now actually leaning toward that these women are directly involved in these men's deaths," said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman.

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[benburch]

1. Arsenic And Old Lace. nt

[pokercat999]

8. Unusual retirement plan.........nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. LOL

That was the first thing I thought of too.

'Insanity doesn't run in my family, it gallops'.

[antonialee839]

10. Autos and Old Lace.

[crizzo5137]

2. Not LBN.. This showed up a week ago

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. It was only in the Washington Post this a.m.

So much for Washington, DC and breaking news, eh?

[crizzo5137]

5. gee...

guess it took the pony express a few days to read WaPo.. This is no LBN...this is GD..this is OLD

[951-Riverside]

7. I concur

I saw the story last week they werent real popular with their neighbors

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Think they need a lawyer

heh heh heh

You gotta watch us old ladies, I keep telling you .............

[TygrBright]

6. Yes, indeedy.... Grannie will surprise the hell outta you...

Nice in a sort of backhanded way to see a couple of old broads striking a blow (ouch) for equal opportunity in criminal behavior.

However, that aside, what a sad comment on the value of the lives of the homeless, still. After 30 years of trying to raise Americans' consciousness regarding homelessness, it's a bit discouraging.

ambivalently,
Bright

[0007]

11. These old ladies could have fared well in professional wrestling

I bet!