These women are greedy murderers
While editing my endless-pit-of-work-but-still-barely-adequate journal article, I came across a case about two elderly ladies that helped support two homeless-ish men over several years, purchased a combined $5.7m of life insurance policies on them, then drugged them, placed them in the street, and ran over them in a car to make the deaths look like hit and run accidents. The deaths were in 1999 and 2003, but they weren’t caught until 2006.
People you’ll meet in hell – Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay
(bored? Read the more extensive statement of facts in the appellate opinion here.)
The best quote from the article I found:
On the 21st of June, 2005, Helen Golay ran over Kenneth McDavid in an alley and left him for dead, which was easy, because he was dead.
And at sentencing, the judge told the women:
These unfortunate men were sacrificed on your altars of greed.
The story was appalling and has left a sick feeling in my chest for the last few hours, but consider this watered down hypothetical: imagine that someone came up to you on the street, placed $5,700,000 cash in front of you, and told you that you could either take the cash or save the life of a drunk bum about to be run over by a car. I think that I would save the guy’s life, but I really can’t say that I wouldn’t pause to think about the 5.7 million greenbacks. What would you do?
