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September 07, 2008 - Two women, from Los Angelos, originally natives of Hungary, have been dubbed the ‘Black Widows’. Helen Golay, 77 and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, sat stony faced in court, as they were sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole. (Whatever that means to women in their late seventies.)
The women befriended two homeless men, aged 73 and 50, at an Eastern European church. They found a place for the men to live and then insured the men, with- the-intent-to-murder. They had found an insurance company which pays regardless of illness, or accidental cause. ‘No Hassle, No investigations’, is their slogan.
The two women signed the forms, using rubber stamps, on which they had transferred the men’s signatures. The grannies then arranged to have the two men to be accidentally killed in hit-and-run accidents, in dark alleys.
Golay claimed she was the fiancé of both victims, while Rutterschmidt said she was a cousin. The two women collected $US2.8 million, before their scheme was uncovered. The men, who had been only looking for food, water and shelter, got a lot more than they bargained for.
Judge Wesley’s closing comments summed it up, “The two men you killed needed a helping hand. They thought they were getting this from you. Instead these unfortunate men were sacrificed on your altar of greed." Wesley said he had looked up the word greed. Among other things, he found the definition, ‘A selfish desire for money, with no need to purchase anything, but just the desire to have it.’
What were two elderly women going to do with all that money? Even more shocking is the question of whether or not the women are responsible for other deaths, which involved six life insurance policies. These were not paid out, because of suspicious circumstances. Paul Vados and Kenneth McDavid were both crushed by cars, in 1999 and 2005. They were insured by Goly and Rutterschmidt.
For unknown reasons some things become classics, like the 1934 song ‘Blue Moon’, or films such as ‘Arsenic and Lace’. Very few classics have the opportunity to become real life. You be the judge of whether Goly and Rutterschmidt were extremely clever, or plain mad? Perhaps they are lunatics, who have no logic, morons with twisted logic, or fools who were simply confused and only looking for entertainment.
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