The verdicts dripped in over the course of a week, but Helen Golay, then 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, were both found guilty of the first-degree murders of Paul Vados and Kenneth McDavid, for financial gain.
The women were also convicted of conspiring to commit the murders of the two men.
The prosecution decided not to seek the death penalty, believing the pair’s advancing age meant they’d die behind bars before exhausting the lengthy appeals process.
In July 2008, Superior Court Judge David Wesley sentenced both women to two consecutive life terms in prison each, without the possibility of parole.
The judge condemned them both, saying Paul and Kenneth only needed food, water and shelter and believed the women were genuinely going to help.
‘Instead, these unfortunate men were sacrificed…
