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Dorothea Puente
CASE FILE · DAILY CASE NO. 16
Dorothea Puente
„The Death House Landlady”
United States
GENDERCOUNTRY
VICTIMSYEAR
TARGETSTATUSZODIAC
US
9
1982
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- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Victim count (in game)
- 9
- First crime
- 1982
- Victims targeted
- Elderly
- Status
- Dead
- Zodiac sign
- Capricorn
Report
Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento for elderly and disabled tenants. In the 1980s she poisoned her lodgers and then cashed their benefit cheques, burying the bodies in the garden. In 1988 police searching for a missing man dug up seven bodies on the property. Convicted of three murders and sentenced to life, she died in prison in 2011.
Crimedle record
First appeared as a daily case: #16 (JAN 05, 2026). Most recently: #257 (SEP 03, 2026). Times featured: 4.
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