Dorothea Puente

(1929-2011)

American criminal

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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. Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was convicted of three and the jury hung on the other six. Newspapers dubbed Puente the "Death House Landlady".

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Born	Dorothea Helen Gray 9 January 1929 Redlands, California, USA
Died	27 March 2011 (aged 82) Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, USA
Zodiac	Capricorn
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