It's not every day women who look like your grandma get sent to the big house.
77-year-old Helen Golay and 75-year-old Olga Rutterschmidt broke out of that "nice little old lady mold" yesterday when they were found guilty of first degree murder and conspiracy to murder for financial gain, according to the AP.
Rather than sitting back in their rocking chairs and settling for Social Security's shrinking monthly allowance, these two took their finances into their own hands. The women cooked up a scheme that involved befriending and then taking out life insurance policies on local homeless men. Naturally, the men suspected nothing more than possible warm baked cookies from their new white-haired friends-- that is, until they found themselves in a dark alleys being chased down by automobiles driven by Helen and Olga. The ladies broke out of the "old people can't drive stereotype," and successfully hit their targets.
Illegal, yes, but also impressive. The old girls managed to rake in $2.8 million on 23 insurance policies before the cops caught on.
The judge sentenced the ladies to life in prison. While this sentence usually carries a sense of eternity, just how much weight it holds once one hits the septuagenaian mark is questionable.
