It was a business venture.

A startup, really.

The kind of entrepreneurial enterprise that identifies an undervalued resource and exploits it.

Visionary almost.

In a wicked kind of way.

After all, the city of Los Angeles was awash in raw material.

Homeless men, down and out, living on the margins of society,

estranged from their families, isolated, and penniless.

Some consider them a blight on this shining city of stars by the sea.

But to Helen Goli and Olga Rudershman,

the homeless and dispossessed were walking, talking gold.

He signed for these policies, and we have the guy punished because of what he wanted. That's not right.

Now remember the bottom line.

It is so evil and so heartbreaking to think that anyone would decide that the purpose of homeless human beings is to make profit.

We're far more dead than alive.

It would seem so.

But only if no one paid too much attention to the life insurance paperwork.

Or gave the crumpled bleeding heaps and back alleys more than a passing glance.

In this episode, you'll hear from the lawyers who battled in court over the fate of two elderly women the media dubbed the Black Widows.

There is circumstantial evidence that the jury considered, but there's no direct evidence.

So we don't have a situation where we have somebody who said,

yes, I saw her do this. I've prosecuted all types of cases, serial murderers, gang murderers,

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