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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. www.crimemuseum.org › serial-killers › dorothea-puenteDorothea Puente - Crime Museum

    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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

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