From the outside, 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California, looked like a respectable Victorian boarding house run by a kind, grandmotherly woman with a reputation for helping the community's most vulnerable. But beneath <b>Dorothea Puente's</b> sweet facade lay a cold, calculating killer with a lifetime of deceit and fraud.This episode delves into the chilling story of the "Death House Landlady." Tracing Dorothea's decades-long criminal history—from check forgery and running a brothel to eventually targeting her own tenants: the elderly, the disabled, and those with no one to look after them.The motive was not pleasure, but <b>profit</b>. She would drug her boarders, steal their government benefit and Social Security checks, and when they disappeared, she would simply tell concerned parties that they had moved on. Her deadly operation only came to light when an investigation into a missing tenant led police to an unthinkable discovery: <b>seven bodies</b> buried in shallow graves right in the backyard.<br /><br />Sources<br />Worst Roomate Ever Season 1: Call Me Grandma<br /><a href="https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/crime-history/death-house-landlady--a-look-back-at-unexpected-serial-killer-do" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ID Crimefeed </a><br /><a href="https://www.sactownmag.com/the-life-and-deaths-of-dorothea-puente/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sactown Magazine (2009)</a><br /><a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8b85fn5/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">OAC (1982-1992)</a><br /><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothea-puente" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All that's Interesting (2024)</a><br /><a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-0328-dorothea-puente-20110328-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Los Angeles Times (2011)</a><br /><br />Audio<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHguL1-WV2c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mass Murderabilia YouTube- Police interview with Dorothea Puente (Part 01)</a><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/OnVfG1FpOvI?si=3Oa-decdfZfTtyyY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mass Murderabilia YouTube- Police Interview with Dorothea Puente (Part 02)</a><br /><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dark-deeds--6216218/support</a>.