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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.
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
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 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.
Apr 16, 2021 · Updated:2:48 PM PDT April 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...
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...
May 9, 2023 · Where Is Dorothea Puente Now? At age 82, Puente died of natural causes behind bars in 2011 at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, where other famous female killers like Suzan Carson were held. To learn more about Dorothea Puente’s case, watch “Murders at the Boarding House" on Oxygen.
