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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.
May 12, 2024 · Dorothea Puente looked like a sweet grandmother — but looks can be deceiving. In fact, Puente was a serial killer who committed at least nine murders inside her boarding house in Sacramento, California throughout the 1980s.
- Kara Goldfarb
Aug 22, 2023 · Learn about the life and crimes of Dorothea Puente, who murdered nine elderly and disabled people in her boarding house in Sacramento. Discover how she lied about her age, background, and motives, and how she evaded justice for years.
- Marina Manoukian
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 17, 2021 · Puente was convicted of killing seven of her tenants in Sacramento and two others from years prior. She served her life sentence in prison until her death in 2011, while the boarding house was later renovated by a TV show.
- Martha Sorren
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.
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Sep 1, 2009 · How did a grandmotherly landlady poison and bury seven of her boarders in her backyard? Read the shocking story of Dorothea Puente, who confessed to her crimes in rare interviews from prison.
