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Human Harvest: The Dorothea Puente Murders
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The landlady who buried her tenants in the backyard.
In November 1988, Sacramento police dug up seven bodies in the yard of Dorothea Puente's boarding house at 1426 F Street. Puente was a disarming, grandmotherly woman known for renting to the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. She targeted the lonely and the vulnerable so she could murder them and cash their Social Security checks, with no one suspecting a thing. One tenant, a gentle man named Bert Montoya, was missing for months before h...
In November 1988, Sacramento police dug up seven bodies in the yard of Dorothea Puente's boarding house at 1426 F Street. Puente was a disarming, grandmotherly woman known for renting to the poor, the elderly, and the disabled. She targeted the lonely and the vulnerable so she could murder them and cash their Social Security checks, with no one suspecting a thing. One tenant, a gentle man named Bert Montoya, was missing for months before h...