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.

Bodies were crushed and crumpled in alleys.

This is very evil.

The body was laying here with his head facing towards the south.

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

I am insurance fraud.

Yes.

My partner, Halle Goli, had insurance, not me.

Who has done this to me?

And why?

This is inhuman.

This is Verston, Germany.

And you'll hear what investigators found inside their apartments. Tide table there and sitting on the Tide table was a book, The Sociopath that lives

next door. And we all looked at it and we just started laughing. I'm Keith Morrison.

And this is episode three of Dateline's latest podcast.

The Thing About Helen and Olga. The thing about Helen and Olga. Thank you. What a lovely way to start a new year.

2006 had just begun, and Helen Golay and Olga Ruddersmith were as pleased as punch.

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