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So today's video is going to be another solved true crime case.

Today we're going to be talking about a female serial killer named Dorothea Puente,

also known as the Death House Landlady.

So before we do, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this video.

This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm about to say is just information that I have found on the internet and I'm compiling into one video.

Dorothea Helen Gray was born on January 9th, 1929 in Redlands, California. She was the sixth of seven siblings and life

was what I can only describe as traumatic for Dorothea, right from the off. Her parents,

Trudy and Jessie were both abusive alcoholics. They both earned their money working on a cotton

field, however they just didn't make enough to support

such a big family. On the evenings, her mother Trudy would do sex work for a little bit of extra

money, but she would often bring her clients back to the house. So all of her young children

were seeing new men walk in the house every day. This case in the very beginning reminds me quite a bit of the

Mary Bell case. I don't know if you've heard of it. I've done a video on it if you want to go and watch it,

but she was another female serial killer who grew up with her mother doing sex work and bringing it back to the house.

It's just a lot of seeing and hearing things that a little girl does not need to be seeing and hearing at such a young age, you know?

As well as bringing her clients back to the house, Dorothea's mother Trudy would often go away for days at a time to go and see clients.

And on these trips she'd be partying and she'd come back drunk and disheveled.

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