285: Stranger than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 1

Dorothea Puente was seen as a giver. She operated a boarding house for elderly, mentally ill, chronically ill, or really whoever needed it. But behind her maternal exterior was a far darker motive. To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelicti

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• Dorothea Puente obituary: Dorothea Puente, boarding house operator who killed tenants, dies at 82 - Los Angeles Times
• Guide to the People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente criminal case records CNTY0004
• Puente v. Mitchell, No. C 02-4129 JSW | Casetext Search + Citator
• Human harvest : the Sacramento murder story : Blackburn, Daniel J., 1943- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Nov 09, 2008, page 1 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com™
• Aug 27, 1993, page 21 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com™ - Newspapers.com™
• Landlady Hunted in Mass Murders Captured in L.A. - Los Angeles Times 
• USCOURTS-cand-3_02-cv-04129-0.pdf