Posted on 03/02/2022 4:35:58 PM PST by simpson96
With her chiffon dresses, thick-rimmed glasses, grey hair and litter of kittens, Dorothea Puente looked like a sweet old lady – even insisting to some, “Call me Grandma.”
But looks can be extremely deceiving – and, in this case, the innocuous landlady was actually a terrifying serial killer who committed at least nine murders inside her boarding house in Sacramento, California throughout the 1980s.
Between 1982 and 1989, Puente would take in the vulnerable and homeless – poisoning and strangling some of her guests before burying them on her property and cashing their social security checks.
The disappearances of these so-called “shadow people” went unnoticed for years, until eventually a social worker Judy Moise – who speaks in new Netflix documentary Worst Roommate Ever – reported a tenant missing.
But the police could never have imagined they’d go on to find six bodies buried in the backyard of this “little old lady.”
Suspicions first arose about Puente in 1988, after Judy, an outreach counsellor with Volunteers of America, noticed 52-year-old Alvaro Montoya – someone she’d placed at Puente’s house – had vanished.(snip)
Judy also questioned another of Puente’s tenants, John Sharp, who told her: “Something is wrong. She’s been digging a lot of holes.”
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A little bit of Arsenic and Old Lace goes along way.
A mansion full of mysteries...
Modern day Arsenic and Old Lace
Yeah? Well, so has Hillary. I'm sure it doesn't mean anything ...
A real live Hotel California…
Hotel Kalifornica??
Wonder if the cops got suspicious when she offered them a glass of elderberry wine.
If I were a serial killer I’d use natural cause as my method. Pick my victim.. and wait.
Loophole!
Arsenic and Old Lace.
Cary Grant, thou shouldst be living in this day!
The YouTube channel, “Casual Criminalist” has a pretty good episode on this case.
Reminds me of that short story, “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl.
I remember this case. She has a cold cold heart
Now you know what happened to those drugged out their mind hippie chicks from the 1960s who loved to wear granny dresses. They got old and stayed crazy.
"Teddy! Time to dig another Lock for the Canal!"
The cats are a dead giveaway
It’s the little old lady from Pasadena.
Didn’t Cuomo play the ole grandpa card using covid for his murders ?
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