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history, and the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Dhammer, The Night

Stalker, B.T.K. Every week another fascinating author talking about the most

shocking and infamous killers in True Crime history, True Murder, with your host, journalist

and author Dan Zufansky.

Good evening. The story begins with Bert, a gentle, unassuming street person who mumbled

to himself and talked to trees. He wasn't an alcoholic, but he hung out at a detox

center in Sacramento, where a volunteer named Judy took an interest in him.

Judy was overjoyed when she found a home for Bert with a silver-haired grandmother, Dorothea

Puente, who ran a tidy boarding house in a blue and white Victorian. Little did Judy

know that Puente, just one of the woman's many aliases, would soon become her obsession.

By the end of the story, Bert has disappeared and the cops are digging up seven corpses

from the backyard of the boarding house.

Author Carla Norton, author of Perfect Victim, skillfully unfolds the many-layered character

of this classic, arsenic and old-laced style serial killer. At the pinnacle of her fame

and glory, Dorothea was like a junkie with a philanthropic habit, everyone dipped into

her pot and benefited from her large s. She was ultimately tried on nine counts of murder

and sentenced to death. The book that we're featuring this evening is disturbed ground

with my special guest, journalist and author, Carla Norton. Welcome to the program and

thank you for a green dis interview, Carla Norton.

Thank you, Dan. Thanks so much for having me.

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