Death House Landlady: Dorothea Puente

True Crime Brewery

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

There are vulnerable people in society who the rest of us have a moral obligation to protect and defend from those who would take advantage of them or abuse them. Of course, we often fail. But when someone dedicates their life to helping these people who society has basically cast out, it is an honorable […]

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0:00.0	True Crime Brewery contains disturbing content related to real life crimes.
0:05.0	Medical information is opinion based on facts of a crime and should not be interpreted as medical advice or treatment.
0:12.0	Listen their discretion is advised. Sacramento police are still looking for a boarding house manager they say literally
0:34.2	dug an early grave for some of her tenants. Police say her motive was simple, money.
0:39.3	Very rancid, sometimes, sickly sweet odor.
0:43.0	Definitely something dead.
0:44.2	Will McIntyre says he knew something didn't smell right next door.
0:48.6	But he and others who had complained had no idea
0:51.7	their neighbor's backyard had become a cemetery.
0:54.6	Cruz pulled a fifth body from a shallow grave today.
0:57.8	Wrapped in a sheet, police couldn't tell if the victim was male or female,
1:02.2	but they believe it's a former tenant of this boarding home,
1:05.8	one of the eight elderly people who lived here and was recently reported missing.
1:10.8	The woman believed responsible for the deaths of 71 year old Dorothea
1:14.4	Montevo Puentes who had a previous record of stealing from the elderly after
1:18.8	doping them. Authorities now suspect the woman killed at least five of the tenants and continued to
1:24.3	cash their social security checks.
1:26.9	She was seen at the boarding house early yesterday, hours after the first body was found in
1:31.6	the backyard.
1:32.8	Police today tried to defend their actions of questioning Fuentes,
1:36.5	but not arresting her.
1:38.2	You think it was a mistake for you guys not to follow?
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