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Two elderly women face dying in prison after being convicted of hatching a plot to befriend homeless men, insure their lives for millions and then murder them.
In a case dubbed the "Black Widow" murders, Helen Golay, 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, were accused of staging hit-and-run killings disguised to look like accidents.
The women then pretended to be relatives or close friends of the men and collected US$2.8 million ($3.5 million).
A Los Angeles jury convicted Golay, a former estate agent, of murdering Kenneth McDavid, 50, in 2005 and Paul Vados, 73, in 1999.
Rutterschmidt was convicted of conspiracy to murder McDavid.
Golay faces a potential life sentence, while Rutterschmidt faces 25 years to life.
