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Episode 19: The Grizzly Grannies of LA
Sarah leads this episode as we dive into the absolutely wild case of Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt—two elderly Los Angeles women who met at a health spa and eventually hatched a deadly scheme involving vulnerable men, life insurance policies, and murder.
The women befriended homeless men, took out numerous life insurance policies on them, and then waited. Prosecutors ultimately proved that Paul Vados and Kenneth McDavid were murdered in staged hit-and-runs, allowing Helen and Olga to collect millions of dollars in insurance payouts.
But their elaborate scheme began to unravel when…
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