Investigators are working to track down a pair of con artists who scammed an elderly woman out of a cherished necklace in East Los Angeles. Little did the thieves know, the necklace carries the ashes of the woman’s daughter, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was recently killed in a car crash.
“They have no soul, they have no soul,” said David Guerrero, the woman’s son. “To rip off elderly people and to say to pray for their own mom that’s in the hospital — they just have no heart and no soul. They’re just, they’re terrible people.”
Guerrero says his mother, Esther, returned home from shopping on Monday afternoon and was approached by a couple who pulled up next to her in the 300 block of South Gerhart Avenue…