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The Thing About Helen & Olga

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The Thing About Helen & Olga

NBC News

True Crime, Nbc News, Storytelling, Documentary, Insurance Scam, Keith Morrison, Helen Golay, Homelessness, Nbc, Homeless, News, Olga Rutterschmidt, Murder, Los Angeles, Dateline Nbc, Fraud, Dateline, Society & Culture, Police

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Helen and Olga are kindly old ladies who open their hearts and wallets to down-and-out men in Los Angeles. In a city named for angels, the two women seem heaven-sent. After one of the men is killed by a hit-and-run driver -- and then another suffers the same fate -- investigators uncover a horrifying and twisted plot that stuns even the most seasoned detectives. All six episodes of this chilling podcast from Keith Morrison and Dateline are available now.

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They were sweet little old ladies.

0:05.0

One with a big bouffin, the other with a Hungarian accent.

0:09.0

Helen and Olga.

0:12.0

They looked like very nice grandmothers, you know.

0:16.0

In a city named for angels,

0:18.0

Helen and Olga made it their mission to help homeless men get off the street.

0:23.0

They said we help get you a little money in places to stay and other benefits and things like that.

0:28.0

The ladies put them up in apartments, paid all their utilities, fed them, took them where they needed to go.

0:35.0

Then one day tragedy, one of their homeless men was killed by a hit and run driver.

0:40.0

And then another, so sad.

0:44.0

Because he loved us.

0:46.0

We were like his family.

0:48.0

We supported him. We gave him money, yes.

0:51.0

Two sweet little old ladies.

0:53.0

And why are we telling you this?

0:56.0

Because this is Deadlines latest podcast and as you might expect,

1:01.0

this is a story about murder, most foul.

1:06.0

As he is being dragged and rubbed under the car against this rough surface here,

1:12.0

his body is tearing apart as are his clothes.

1:15.0

And he is being snapped and crunched as this is a horrible, horrible death.

1:21.0

I'm Keith Morrison.

1:23.0

We a date line have covered many murder plots over the years.

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