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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
Aug 22, 2023 · Dorothea Puente remained imprisoned at the Central California Women's Facility in Madera Country, California, until she died at the age of 82 in 2011. In 1993, Californians were shocked to learn that an old woman was a serial killer. This is the untold truth of Dorothea Puente, the Death House Landlady.
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. By Becca van Sambeck Apr 15, 2021, 1:53 PM ET. To many, Dorothea Puente seemed like an angel.
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...
Jul 25, 2022 · Local. She seemed like an elderly Sacramento landlady. Dorothea Puente was actually a serial killer. By Katie Dowd July 25, 2022. Police escort Dorothea Puente after her arrest in November...
Mar 28, 2011 · 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...
Aug 16, 2022 · Back in the 1980s, a woman named Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house for vulnerable people in Sacramento, California. Eventually, it emerged that she had murdered some of her guests, targeting...
