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True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, macabre and haunted.

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

Welcome to Pentasma Crime.

A house is an inanimate object.

People can fill a home with either positive energy or negative energy.

But the house is still just a house.

When a murder happens inside a house, the house is innocent.

In that statement, the house is innocent is posted outside of 1426F Street in Sacramento, California.

This is the Dorothea Puente Murder House, a private home that was once a boarding house run by Puente,

who made the downtrodden of her community, her victims, all while at the same time appearing to be a pillar of the community.

She had a handful of victims that she buried in her backyard.

Women don't tend to be serial killers.

Also, when a female killer is found to have multiple victims, it gets more than the average amount of attention.

The list is a fairly short one, and female serial killers seem to be different from their male counterparts.

Their crimes are usually not about hunting prey, as is the case for many male serial killers.

And many of these female killers prefer a hands-off approach that is simple, choosing poison or drug overdosing as their method for killing.

Bel Gunness was probably the most prolific female serial killer, and poison was her weapon of choice.

Dorothea Puente went down the same route, using a lethal mixture of prescription drugs to end the lives of her victims.

Dorothea Puente was born as Dorothea Helen Gray on January 9, 1929 in Redlands, California.

The world she entered was a chaotic one that would shape her and perhaps even make her susceptible to evil desires.

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