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Mar 29, 2007 7:45 pm US/Pacific

'Black Widows' Arraigned In Homeless Men's Deaths

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A pair of elderly women pleaded not guilty in LA Superior Court Thursday to murder and conspiracy charges in the deaths of two transients authorities say were drugged and hit with a car so the women could collect nearly $3 million in insurance money.

Seventy-six-year-old Helen Golay and 74-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt entered their pleas and have been jailed without bail since their arrests last May.

They are charged with two counts each of murder and conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain.

Prosecutors say the women befriended Kenneth McDavid and Paul Vados, took out insurance policies on their lives, then drugged them and ran them over to make it look like the two homeless men had been killed in hit-and-run accidents.

Prosecutors will decide whether to seek the death penalty.

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