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Bookmark or Share- Dorothea Puente, The 'Death House Landlady' Of 1980s CaliforniaPublished November 20, 2021. Updated August 26, 2022. In 1980s California, Dorothea Puente's house was a den of theft and murder as this terrifying landlady killed at least nine of her unsuspecting tenants. Dorothea Puente looked like a sweet grandmother — but looks can be deceiving.
- Dorothea Puente dies at 82; boarding house operator who ...Dorothea Puente, a notorious, grandmotherly Sacramento boarding house operator convicted in the 1990s of killing her tenants, died Sunday in a state prison in Chowchilla. She was 82. Puente...
- Dorothea Puente - WikipediaDorothea Helen Puente (née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks.
- Dorothea Puente - Crime MuseumDorothea Puente was a convicted serial killer who ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California in the 1980s. Puente cashed in the Social Security checks of the elderly and disabled boarders living in her house. Many of them found dead and buried in the boarding house’s yard.
- The Life and Deaths of Dorothea Puente - Sactown MagazineIt’s been 20 years since Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, Dorothea Puente, buried seven bodies in the garden of her F Street boardinghouse. Now 80, she speaks out in a series of rare interviews on her crimes, her “relationships” with the Kennedys and the Reagans and why—in the end—the person she really wanted to kill was herself
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