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True Crime All The Time

Dorothea Puente "The Death House Landlady"

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital

Society & Culture, True Crime, Murder, Serial, Exhibit C, Killers, Podcast, Documentary, Truecrime

4.713.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s, Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house for tenants many of whom were elderly or mentally disabled. On the outside it appeared that Puente was providing a much needed service to individuals that may have had no where else to turn. But in reality, she was murdering these individuals so that she could profit from their benefit checks long after they were dead. Join Mike and Gibby as they wade through the twists and turns of this fascinating case of Puente who become known as the "Death House Landlady". Puente may have appeared as loving grandmother to many but her lust for money ran extremely deep. Visit our website truecrimeallthetime.com for contact and merchandise information. You can help support the show by going to patreon.com/truecrimeallthetime     An Emash Digital Production See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We appreciate our work on here.

0:28.0

and welcome to episode 31 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.

0:33.6

I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always

0:35.9

is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson.

0:38.8

Gibby, how are you today?

0:40.3

Hey, Mike, I'm doing well, man, how about you?

0:42.2

I am great, man, I'm fired up.

0:44.8

We're getting ready to go to CrimeCon.

0:46.3

Actually, by the time this episode airs,

0:49.2

we'll be on our way back from CrimeCon.

0:51.5

Yeah, CC 2017.

0:54.5

I can't wait to meet a bunch of fans.

0:58.1

I can't wait to meet a bunch of other great cool podcasters.

1:02.3

It's gonna be fun.

1:03.2

Yeah, you're pretty approachable.

1:04.2

So me, yeah, yeah, I like to think I am.

1:07.6

Yeah, you're that guy.

1:08.9

We'll see how it goes.

1:10.2

You know, maybe we'll have some stories we can tell

1:13.2

on one of our future upcoming episodes.

1:16.6

I'm sure I'll do something that will be story worthy.

1:20.0

That's what I'm thinking.

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