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- Author : Mathieu Jego
- 20-05-2008
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Insurance fraud: the “gun-slinging grannies” | M6 | 66 minutes
An infamous trial has just ended in Hollywood. The accused were two grandmothers who were found guilty of murdering two homeless men in Los Angeles.Helen Golay, 77, and her accomplice, Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, had set up a gruesome scam. They picked up homeless people from the streets of the city and lodged them at their expense, in exchange for which the victim had to take out life insurance with the women as beneficiaries.A few months later, they would kill them, disguising the deaths as car accidents. They were said to have collected nearly $3,000,000 in insurance claims.The story of a scandal story that shocked America.