The Thing About Helen & Olga - Ep. 5: Just a Little Red Paint
This episode of Dateline examines the chilling case of Helen Golay and Olga Rudder-Schmidt, two elderly women who orchestrated a calculated scheme of insurance fraud and murder for financial gain. The story centers on the 2005 killing of Kenneth McDavid, a homeless man they had culti
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