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 <a href="https://patreon.com/corpusdelicti" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">patreon.com/corpusdelicti</a><br /><br />Our merch store can be found at <a href="https://teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcast</a><br /><br />Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones"Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a> or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.Sources:<br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-0328-dorothea-puente-20110328-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dorothea Puente obituary: Dorothea Puente, boarding house operator who killed tenants, dies at 82 - Los Angeles Times</a></li><li><a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/static_findaids/ark:/13030/c8b85fn5.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Guide to the People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente criminal case records CNTY0004</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230323070854/https://casetext.com/case/puente-v-mitchell-2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Puente v. Mitchell, No. C 02-4129 JSW | Casetext Search + Citator</a></li><li><a href="https://archive.org/details/humanharvestsacr00blac/page/n1/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Human harvest : the Sacramento murder story : Blackburn, Daniel J., 1943- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/631804188/?terms=dorothea%20puente" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nov 09, 2008, page 1 - The Sacramento Bee at </a><a href="https://Newspapers.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Newspapers.com</a><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/631804188/?terms=dorothea%20puente" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">™</a></li><li><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/626218174/?match=1&amp;terms=dorothea%20puente" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aug 27, 1993, page 21 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com™ - Newspapers.com™</a></li><li><a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-17-mn-457-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Landlady Hunted in Mass Murders Captured in L.A. - Los Angeles Times</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_02-cv-04129/pdf/USCOURTS-cand-3_02-cv-04129-0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">USCOURTS-cand-3_02-cv-04129-0.pdf</a> </li></ul>