Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold-Blooded Murder - Softcover

King, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312949006 ISBN 13: 9780312949006

Publisher: Saint Martins True Crime, 2009

Synopsis

They came from different backgrounds, but when Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt met in the 1980s, they became fast friends. For decades, they made a game of engaging in petty crime—bad deals, insurance fraud, robbing wallets. But after years of dabbling in theft, they came up with a way of making their pocketbooks even fatter. They found a way to make murder pay…

It was a plan out of Arsenic and Old Lace: Befriend a homeless man, place life insurance policies in his name—and then have him killed. Their scheme worked once…but then police started to notice a pattern. Helen and Olga were discovered, and in front of a court of law, their coldhearted pact to kill and cash in would finally be exposed.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanne King is an award-winning journalist who covered crime for Reuters for more than forty years. The author of Never Seen Again (also available from St. Martin’s True Crime Library).

From the Back Cover

TWO GOLDEN GIRLS

They came from different backgrounds, but when Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt met in the 1980s, they became fast friends. For decades, they made a game of engaging in petty crime bad deals, insurance fraud, robbing wallets. But after years of dabbling in theft, they came up with a way of making their pocketbooks even fatter. They found a way to make murder pay

ONE DEADLY PLOT

It was a plan out of Arsenic and Old Lace: Befriend a homeless man, place life insurance policies in his name and then have him killed. Their scheme worked once but then police started to notice a pattern. Helen and Olga were discovered, and in front of a court of law, their coldhearted pact to kill and cash in would finally be exposed.

SIGNED IN BLOOD

With 8 pages of alarming photos!

Edition details

• Publisher: Saint Martins True Crime
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312949006
• ISBN 13: 9780312949006
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 245