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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Must be a Netflix original movie in the works.
Schizophrenic? She doesn’t sound like one, but then again I’m not looking at a medical file and haven’t spoken to ber personally.
I was going to say psychopathic given the lack of emotion, but... Yikes. People are crazy.
Father goose. ‘I want to be a total stranger figure’.
Granny garrote.
*cops. She was released and told not to leave the area. She left the area.
The cops: what were they REALLY saying?*
No response-that’s ok. The cops wanted her to get away. What’s a few SSI checks compared to the costs of a lifetime in prison when her medical bills go up?
Charge!!!!!!
Why was this just published?
I got my answer. This so called journalist is just plugging a show.
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