286: Stranger Than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 2
Corpus Delicti
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Jen. |
| 0:25.2 | And this is Lindsay. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back, Corpus DeLecti. |
| 0:28.7 | Part two of Dorothy's. |
| 0:31.9 | We don't even know her last name at this point. |
| 0:34.2 | She's had so many. |
| 0:35.9 | Oh, I was like, what? |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, we do. I was not following the joke. |
| 0:40.0 | It fell flat. Well, anyways, this grandmother, type woman, caregiver, she's racking up on the victims, |
| 0:48.0 | financial fraud victims, elderly abuse victims, people that go missing. Now she's hired inmates. Now the whole |
| 0:56.4 | inmate situation, they are there for labor. And what she did is to again make herself look good |
| 1:06.9 | is she said, oh, I want to help give these people a new start. They are now out of prison. They're |
| 1:12.4 | in a halfway house. I would like to offer them employment. They can come and work for me. |
| 1:18.5 | But how else might that benefit her? Well, they're not going to say anything, right? They might be |
| 1:24.3 | a little more hesitant to go talk to police about anything because they've |
| 1:29.1 | got their own histories that they are dealing with. Well, not only that, if she does a bad |
| 1:35.8 | report on them, they may lose their parole. Exactly. Exactly. So we're going to pick up right |
| 1:42.6 | there. She has hired the inmates, but we still have more people at this boarding house to talk about. |
| 1:49.0 | So October through November of 1987, we have Vera Faye Martin, who was 61. She was sent to live with Dorothy on October 2nd. |
| 1:59.3 | Vera was described as verbally abusive and a long-time alcoholic. |
| 2:04.8 | So why would Dorothy take in someone who was verbally abusive? |
| 2:09.7 | At this point is where we learn that Martin, Vera Faye Martin, was placed at the house |
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