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Mar 18, 2008 12:33 pm US/Pacific

Opening Statements Begin In 'Black Widows' Trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A Los Angeles prosecutor has presented opening statements in a murder-for-profit case against two elderly women accused of killing two homeless men to collect on insurance policies.

Deputy District Attorney Truc Do summarized evidence in her statement to the jury Tuesday and played an FBI videotape of the defendants talking to each other after they were arrested.

In the tape, one woman accused the other of being too greedy. Authorities allege that 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt and 77-year-old Helen Golay put two homeless men in apartments, took out numerous insurance policies on them and then killed them in faked hit-and-run accidents.

The prosecutor says the women collected $2.8 million. The women have pleaded not guilty.

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