Compo Seeking Grannys From Hell

A federal grand jury indicted two elderly women accused of befriending transient men and then collecting on life insurance policies worth $2.3 million after the men died in hit-and-run crashes.

One of the men, Kenneth McDavid, died in a hit-and-run in June 2005. Federal authorities say a 1999 Mercury Sable station wagon seized last week had been involved in a collision with a pedestrian or bicyclist and that Golay had called for it to be towed near the alley where McDavid was killed. The call was made from a gas station about an hour before McDavid's body was found.

In an earlier search of Golay's Santa Monica home, Los Angeles police detectives found a notebook with the station wagon's make and model and a nearly identical license plate number written inside, according to an affidavit.

Paul Vados, a Hungarian-born man, died in similar circumstances in Police did not link the two cases until last fall, when a detective overheard a colleague describing a case with eerie similarities.

Court records also show that both women had a penchant for filing civil lawsuits _ nearly 40 between them during the past two decades, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.