Birdsong's Law Blog

Birdsong continues to troll the wire services and the papers for weird criminal law stories.  Here are a few more.  They are all true stories.

Brooklyn, NY: A one legged hooker was killed in Brooklyn after a John hit her over the head, causing her to fall backwards out of her wheelchair and slam her skull against a wall.  Elizabeth Acevedo, 38, was found by police laying unconscious on the 13^th floor of the building in which she lived.  She died after being taken to the hospital.  Acevedo, who lost her leg in an accident involving a train, had a rap sheet with 67 arrests for prostitution and drug charges.  She wore a prosthetic leg, but also used a wheelchair. Police believe she may have being servicing a John who hit her on the head.  No suspects have been found.

Gosh, how darn pathetic can the human condition get?

Atlanta, GA: This debate got too heated. Seems two debate team coaches got into a profanity laced argument that ended when one yanked his pants down and mooned the other debater. 

Read some more truly weird criminal stories that Birdsong has found for you:

Monroe, WS: Two dozing burglars were busted sleeping – one in a stolen hammock, the other in a pile of pilfered pillows – after swiping some patio furniture from a Monroe, Washington department store.  Police found the snoozing pair after following a trail of pillows about 200 feet from the store. A Monroe police spokeswoman said, “We believe alcohol was involved.”

Birdsong would surmise that there was actually a whole lot of alcohol involved.

Birdsong now rolls out a few more weird criminal law stories for your reading enjoyment:

July 2008.  In Los Angeles two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering two indigent men and then collecting on their insurance policies that the women had taken out on their lives. The evidence at trial revealed that the women, Helen Golay, age 77 and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, a native of Hungary, befriended the two men, took out life insurance  policies on them and then staged their deaths to look like hit and run auto accidents.  Prosecutors alleged that the women collected $2.8 million from the scheme.

They sound like Black Widow Spiders!