Apr 14, 2008 2:08 pm US/Pacific
Jury Deliberations Begin In 'Black Widows' Trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay are accused of putting two homeless men in apartments, taking out numerous insurance policies on them and then killing them in faked hit-and-run accidents. (file)
CBS
A defense lawyer has called the Los Angeles trial of a murder-for-profit case against two elderly women a "classic whodunnit."
Defense attorney Roger Jon Diamond used his closing argument Monday to suggest that unknown to client Helen Golay, co-defendant Olga Rutterschmidt had her own plan to kill homeless men.
Diamond told the jury he concedes that the women had an insurance fraud scheme but not a murder plot.
Rutterschmidt's defense earlier placed blame on Golay.
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