Not-so-harmless little old ladies: old arsenic and lace, perhaps.
Helen Golay, 77 and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, convicted of murdering two homeless men for $2.8 million in life insurance. In a carefully plotted scheme, the women picked the men off the streets, purchased numerous small insurance policies on them (keeping off insurers’ radar), paid for apartments for the two years–the period after which insurers generally cannot contest a policy–and either ran them over or had them run over in dark alleys. The women were allegedly partners in a number of bogus lawsuits before trading up to murder in the late ’90s. Let us assume alcohol or pharmaceutical drug addiction explains their horrific behaviors. Instead of being given the opportunity to get clean and sober a few decades ago and living clean, sober and honest lives, they will live out their golden years in the clinker.