285: Stranger than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 1
Corpus Delicti
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone is Jen, and this is Lindsay. |
| 0:26.8 | And this is Corpus to look tie. |
| 0:29.0 | We're actually on schedule. |
| 0:30.5 | Woohoo. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, we are. |
| 0:31.6 | We are back in action. |
| 0:33.2 | We actually have a two-parter for you guys in the Stranger Than Fiction series. This one was |
| 0:39.9 | recommended to us by Colin, long-time listener, supporter, consider him a friend, good part of |
| 0:45.5 | the family here over at Corpus to Lake Dye. He sent this over to us and it definitely fits |
| 0:52.0 | the bill, but I'm going to throw out a disclaimer here as I was looking |
| 0:57.1 | through this I was like I know this we have done this I know for a fact we have covered it I |
| 1:01.5 | remember it remember talking about it no it's just that ironic that two cases are so similar and so outlandish. So if you end up thinking the same |
| 1:15.8 | thing, like I've heard Jell say this before, you got to bear with us through the whole thing. |
| 1:19.6 | It is a two-parter. There's not like a good transition spot because there's so many |
| 1:23.6 | victims to talk about. So we might leave you hanging a little bit today. All right. Dorothy Helen |
| 1:29.4 | Gray was born January 9th, 1929 in Redlands, California. She was raised during the Great Depression, |
| 1:36.6 | shaping her view on money, scarcity, and survival. Her parents reported struggling financially. |
| 1:43.3 | Now, again, Great Depression, everybody struggled. |
| 1:46.7 | Unfortunately, they did turn to alcoholics. |
| 1:50.3 | Her father died when she was still a child. |
| 1:52.8 | We're not quite sure how young of a child she was. |
| 1:57.2 | Her mother struggled to maintain stability afterwards. |
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