There are many methods for ridding oneself of people who have become, shall we say, inconvenient.

Here at Dateline we've covered most of them.

There are several tools available.

Guns, knives, poison, rope, you name it.

Each has advantages and disadvantages.

But nothing we've encountered matches the simple no frills efficiency of driving a one

and a half ton car over someone down on the pavement.

And that, it seems, is exactly what happened, not once, but twice in the back alleys of Los Angeles.

The bodies were crushed and crumpled in alleys, and this is very evil.

The body was laying here, but it was head facing towards the south.

In this episode you'll hear from the two elderly ladies at the heart of our story.

I am insured and smart.

My partner, Helen Goley, had insured and slothed me.

Who has got him to me?

In what?

This is inhuman, this is verse in Germany.

And you'll hear what investigators found inside their apartments.

By table there and sitting on the tie table was a book.

Associate path to lives next door, and we all looked at and we just started laughing.

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is episode three of Daedline's latest podcast, The Thing About

Helen Melola.

What a lovely way to start a new year.

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