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LOS ANGELES, Aug 18, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Reminiscent of the play "Arsenic and Old Lace," two elderly Los Angeles women are accused of befriending lonely men and then killing them.
Although they didn't use elderberry wine, police suspect Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt may have drugged their victims before running them over with their car, The Los Angeles Times reports.
The pair is accused of befriending, insuring and then killing Paul Vados, 73, and Kenneth McDavid, 50, after insuring them for $2.5 million.
Police are also seeking three missing men, all described as transients, who the women tried to buy insurance policies for.
Golay and Rutterschmidt have been held without bail since May when federal authorities charged them with trying to defraud insurance companies. The federal charges were dropped Thursday when state murder charges were filed, the Times said.
Los Angeles Police Detective Dennis Kilcoyne, chief investigator in the case, told the Times the women had fattened up their victims like Christmas turkeys.
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