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Dorothea Puente was a con-artist who targeted her disabled, homeless and elderly tenants. Also called the Death House Landlady, The Black Widow of Sacramento, and The Grandma Serial Killer; Dorothea would murder her tenants until 1988 when her schemes started to unravel.
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Sources for this episode:
- “Dorothea Puente Criminal Trial, Peoples Exhibit 710: Excavation at 1426 F Street - 1988 EDITED. Free Download, Borrow and Streaming: Internet Archive.” Internet Archive, 11 Nov. 1988, https://archive.org/details/Puente-Excavation3.
- “Dorothea Puente Criminal Trial, People’s Exhibit 985: Police Interview with Dorothea Puente : Sacramento Police Department : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive.” Internet Archive, 11 Nov. 1988, https://archive.org/details/Puente-Interrogation.
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