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Dorothea 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. [1]
May 12, 2024 · Public Domain Serial killer Dorothea Puente became known as the “Death House Landlady” after she murdered tenants at her boarding house in Sacramento, California. Next, Dorothea Puente went to San Francisco, where she married her second husband, Axel Bren Johansson, in 1952.
Dorothea 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.
Aug 22, 2023 · Dorothea Puente was charged with the murders of the seven individuals whose bodies were found in her backyard, as well as the murders of Ruth Monroe and Everson Gillmouth, whose body remained unidentified until police connected it to Puente.
Sep 1, 2009 · It’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
Jul 25, 2022 · She seemed like an elderly Sacramento landlady. Dorothea Puente was actually a serial killer. Police escort Dorothea Puente after her arrest in November 1988 for murdering multiple tenants...
Apr 15, 2021 · Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house for the elderly, disabled, or otherwise ailing in Sacramento, California, but her motives were anything but altruistic.
Jul 4, 2024 · Six more bodies would be unearthed later. Puente, who was 59 years old at that time, ran a boarding house for the elderly and those who suffered from mental illness.
Mar 28, 2011 · SACRAMENTO (AP) — Dorothea Montalvo Puente, the Sacramento landlady convicted in 1993 of killing three of her tenants to collect their government checks and burying them in her backyard, died...
Apr 16, 2021 · SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Dorothea Puente is a infamous figure in Sacramento history, having been convicted of killing tenants who lived in her downtown boarding home in the 1980's.
