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The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast

#259 The Tale of Golden Girls Gone Wild: Olga Rutterschmidt & Helen Golay [Part 3]

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4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

The Murders Of Paul Vados & Kenneth McDavid Planned & Orchestrated by Septuagenarians Helen Golay & Olga Rutterschmidt [Part 3]

This is the third part of a 3 part series. Helen Golay & Olga Rutterschmidt met in the 1980s at a local Hollywood gym. Before long, the two ladies became friends, and over time, that friendship grew into a complex, love/hate relationship as they came to find that they had much in common in terms of how they wanted to live their lives and earn their livings. They teamed up to become a pair of unlikely con artists who befriend and took advantage of men. After two decades, the tenuous relationship began to fracture as their crimes grew much more serious and the mistrust between them grew much deeper.

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-08-me-olgahelen8-story.html
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/exadwm/detective-who-busted-ladies-112-v15n10

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0:00.0

Hello Dreamers, and welcome back to the show.

0:04.4

This is the third and final part of our crazy old ladies series, Golden Girls Gone Wild,

0:10.5

the story of Olga Rederschmitt in Helen Gale.

0:14.4

If you haven't listened to Parts 1 and 2, then you'll want to listen to those first and

0:19.8

then come back to this episode.

0:22.1

I'm just going to blow through the social media stuff and support the show stuff, leave

0:27.1

a rating and Apple Podcast, follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Patreon, bonuses,

0:32.7

episodes, join for a dollar, et cetera, et cetera.

0:35.9

I've had a cold this week and it has been kicking my ass, so I'm going to try to get this

0:42.0

done today because I actually have the day off, I've had a lot of days off from work,

0:45.6

so I have really no excuses for doing this other than I just don't think I'm sounding

0:51.1

like myself, but I really want to get through this series and get started on the next

0:57.4

one and the Patreon, so let's get going.

1:02.3

So in Part 2, we left off with the investigation into the murders of Kenneth McDavid and the

1:08.4

ongoing effort to link Helen and Olga to his death, as well as their victim from six

1:14.5

years earlier, Mr. Paul Vatos.

1:17.8

The ladies have been taken into custody on fraud charges just to make sure that these two

1:22.0

don't do any more murdery things while investigators work on building a solid case, because it's

1:28.4

not going to be all that easy to convince a jury that these grannies are a pair of cold

1:33.1

blooded murders, so we're going to go ahead and pick up the story from there.

1:44.3

As I stated in the previous episodes, Kenneth McDavid's life came to an end in an alleyway,

1:51.5

and I have not had the displeasure of ever being in a Hollywood alleyway, but I can imagine

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