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So today's video is going to be part two to my last video, which was on the Death House Landlady, also known as Dorothy Appointe.

I said in that video that this was going to be a two-part series, and it was. But then last night, I was doing some more research and I struck an

absolute gold mine of information. I have never done that before with a case. So for that reason,

this is now going to be a three part series. So this isn't the finale and this is like the middle

chunk of the story. So if you want to catch part three, it'll be up on my channel

in the next few days. But regardless, I'm going to give a little bit of a recap on part one

just to jog your memory and get you back up to speed. Dorothea Puente worked as a nanny

for the Oderica family at 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California. She once had her own

boarding house on that same street in Sacramento,

but it was taken away from her because she was abusing her power and stealing from her tenants.

She'd served short periods of time in prison and psychiatric wards, but now she was in her 60s

and she was serving a five-year prison sentence for drugging and robbing two people on two separate occasions.

But these weren't the only times she'd done it. There were at least five other victims of Dorothea's that she wasn't charged with,

and it seemed that her crimes ran much deeper than that.

Her best friend Ruth Monroe had recently moved in with her, but within just three months of living there,

the perfectly healthy Ruth quickly got seriously ill and passed away. It was found that Ruth's

cause of death was a drug overdose that was eventually ruled a suicide, but her children

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