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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 ]
Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, was so seemingly non-threatening that authorities let her out of their sights time and time again — even after digging up seven ...
Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams, the owners of the former home of the infamous Dorothea Puente at 1426 F St. in Sacramento, pose earlier this month in front of the house with a Sacramento Bee news ...
Dorothea Puente: Sacramento: 1982–1988: 9: Ran a boarding house and murdered elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks [140] 31: Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: Calaveras County: 1983–1985: 11-25: Ex-Marine who had a cabin that he described as a "dungeon" where he kidnapped, raped, and murdered women [9 ...
Dorothea Puente killed her tenants for their Social Security checks and buried them in the backyard of her home. [145] H. H. Holmes killed for insurance and business profits. [146] Puente and Holmes had previous records of crimes such as theft, fraud, non-payment of debts, embezzlement and others of a similar nature.
A "for sale" sign is now in the yard of the vacant, foreclosed two-story Victorian home where police once unearthed seven victims of convicted female serial killer Dorothea Puente, reported the ...
Dorothea Puente, a convicted serial killer, "did two years and six months [at CIW] for a forgery conviction" beginning in 1984. [22] Cathy Evelyn Smith served time in December 1986 and March 1988 for involuntary manslaughter and drug charges related to the death of John Belushi. [22] [26]
As Halloween approaches, the current owners of serial killer Dorothea Puente’s house gave us a tour with all the macabre details