On April 18, 2008, Helen Golay 78, formerly of Santa Monica, California, and Olga Rutterschmidt 75, formerly of Hollywood, California, were convicted of the murders of two vagrants — Paul Vados in 1999 and Kenneth McDavid in 2005. According to reports, Golay and Rutterschmidt staged Vados and McDavid's deaths to appear as hit and run incidents in order to collect on multimillion-dollar life insurance policies they had taken out on the men. The killings became known as the Black Widow Murders.

Both Golay and Rutterschmidt were convicted in Los Angeles, California, in April 2008, of conspiracy to murder Vados and McDavid, and of the first-degree murder of Vados. Golay was convicted of the first-degree murder of McDavid. Both women were sentenced to consecutive life terms in California Federal prison, without possibility of parole.

One page handwritten letter. Letter is general content and is signed Helen. Original matching handwritten envelope is included