Keith Morrison

The Girl in the Blue Mustang is a production of Dateline and NBC News.

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It's just...

The craziest story, I could never understand why nobody made it into a movie.

Helen and Olga are these two, you know, we say elderly ladies.

They weren't that elderly when they started their scams, who just played the most interesting and patient games with men to try to take their money away or try to take advantage of them and get money, farm them for money, if I can put it that way.

Strange, crazy story.

They were sort of Thelma and Louise of crime.

You know, Susan, I don't know whether you heard about how they came up with the notion of doing it that way, but they were very patient, and they—

You know, they would spend two years waiting for the time when an insurance company would trust them to give them the money from the death of these homeless men who they took in, housed, fed, took care of for all that time so that they could score from the insurance policy when the men, unfortunately, suddenly died.

And they would, of course, be the ones behind that unfortunate sudden death.