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Aug 8
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These Insane Women Ran Over Homeless Guy...

Ray William Johnson
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In 2008, Helen Golay, then 77, alongside her accomplice Olga Rutterschmidt, 75—two seemingly benign elderly women residing in California—were convicted of orchestrating the staged hit-and-run murders of two homeless men.

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