August 13th, 2008 by Leonard Birdsong
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.
July 23rd, 2008 by Leonard Birdsong
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!
