We all know that the Law and Order franchise often ripped stories straight from the headlines. Well, this episode of CSI New York (Second Chances) also rips this story from the headlines. The powers that be at CSI New York have definitely heard of Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt. That's the story of 2 old ladies who went to homeless shelters searching for victims for their greedy scheme. They housed and fed strangers that they met at homeless shelters for a period of 2 years for the full insurance policy to kick in. And once the two years were up, they murdered these once homeless men just to collect on the life insurance policy. If I'm not mistaken, they did this twice. Once in 1999 and again in 2005. They were covered on a couple of True Crime shows.
The main difference with this CSI New York story vs. the real thing is that they use young women instead of old ladies as the murderers in this story. Of course CSI New York also adds a few extra things in there to put their own little spin on the story. Once I realized the very easy to spot similarities with this episode to the Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt case, I had to write a quick review. Of course it's not really much of a "review". Just a thumbs up for doing a real life story that I recognized involving 2 evil old ladies (who both already had a good amount of money).
The main difference with this CSI New York story vs. the real thing is that they use young women instead of old ladies as the murderers in this story. Of course CSI New York also adds a few extra things in there to put their own little spin on the story. Once I realized the very easy to spot similarities with this episode to the Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt case, I had to write a quick review. Of course it's not really much of a "review". Just a thumbs up for doing a real life story that I recognized involving 2 evil old ladies (who both already had a good amount of money).