Few things reveal a person's character faster, that a windfall of easy money.

And that you can't escape their money, who cares? Who cares?

Yeah, nothing left to be quiet.

Of course, it must be said. Helen Goley and Olga Ruderschmann had the foul scent of corruption

about them long before they cast their first big insurance checks.

And these women, I just, it's incredible to think of their mindset.

So maybe what happened next wasn't so much of a fall from grace,

as the inevitable destination of a long escalator rise to the bottom.

Are you going to be taken to jail and put in a jail?

Yes, Helen and Olga were going to jail.

From petty crime and frivolous lawsuits, they graduated to insurance fraud.

Between the two of them, they collected nearly three million dollars in life insurance payouts

would have collected more, too, if they hadn't been arrested.

They knew how to work these insurance companies.

And what was revealed in the end, by that windfall of easy money?

Well, a black and bottomless hole where a moral compass should be.

I think if people saw what evil looked like, they would want to turn away from it

because it was so horrible. But I do believe it's possible to put up a facade

or even there, you know, over evil motives.

On this episode, you'll hear from the detectives who were determined to prove

that these two 70-something women were more than thieves.

They were cold-blooded killers.

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