20/20 Deadly Sweetheart Scams

ABC's news show 20/20 (1995) compares the East Coast/West Coast cases of cousins targeting the elderly for sweetheart scams in which the victims were poisoned by the heart drug, Digitalis.

VANITY FAIR 1998 "Gone With The Gypsies", Faron's investigation of the murder-for-hire scheme known as "Foxglove."

PEOPLE 2000 "A Passion for Justice,"  Thanks to dogged private ye, Fay Faron, clan members are charged in a murder plot.

NEWSWEEK - December 1997 "A Deadly Kind of Charm"

STAR MAGAZINE - 1998 "Gypsy Beauties Loved 'em and Then Killed `em... until female private eye got on their case."

MARIE CLAIRE 1995  "Mystery Deaths: Old Men With Young Wives"

MORE MAGAZINE 1996 "Poison Partners"

NOW January 1998 "The Black Widow" The woman accused of befriending lonely old men, then poisoning them.

In June of 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked a story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family -- the Tene Bimbos.

Fay Faron, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay Area, was contacted by a lawyer to investigate the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed she was being swindled out of her hilltop mansion by a young man named Danny Tene. Within days, the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune. Olsen chronicles Faron's hunt for Danny Tene, his mother Mary Steiner, and his beautiful sister Angela -- a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women, whose property -- and possibly whose lives -- the family allegedly stole.

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