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Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

[Serial Killer] The Crimes of Dorothea Puente: The Boarding House of Horrors

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

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True Crime

4.68.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we are discussing several murders that took place inside the home of a most unlikely suspect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys and welcome to the Moms and Murder podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa.

0:31.0

Hi, Mandy. How are you? I'm doing okay. Yeah? Did you enjoy the week off? Get a lot of things done? I did. Yeah, so many things done.

0:41.0

I'm so ahead right now. I don't even believe you for a minute. And I'm pretty sure after two years,

0:46.3

no one else believes you either. No, I did not get very much done. I actually took a week off.

0:53.1

And it was really nice and needed, I guess.

0:57.6

So that's where we're at right now. But I'm on schedule. I'm not ahead, but I'm on schedule.

1:03.3

There you go. That's really all I can ask for at this point. So yeah.

1:07.7

So we're going to jump right into this week's story.

1:13.4

It comes to us out of Sacramento, California.

1:19.0

Sacramento is a city of a half a million people located about an hour and a half northeast of San Francisco.

1:27.0

Once a gold rush town, it is now known for local coffee roasters, craft beer, and as the farm-to-fork capital of the United States. The Sacramento Kings are the

1:29.1

beloved local NBA team playing in a brand-new arena downtown that's just a quick walk from Old

1:34.7

Sacramento. Visitors to Old Sack, as it is commonly known as, can check out the California State

1:40.7

Railroad Museum and an original schoolhouse among the other historic buildings there.

1:45.5

The movie Lady Bird from 2017 was based and filmed in Sacramento, written by a local native named

1:51.5

Greta Gerwig. Sacramento is a fast-paced city with a booming arts and restaurant scene that still

1:56.9

maintains a small town feel, but the city also has a darker side.

2:04.8

Homelessness and drugs plague certain areas, and several killers have actually called Sacramento and the surrounding area at home.

2:07.1

The Golden State Killer was famously caught in the suburb of Citrus Heights after 40 years just

2:12.1

last year, and another infamous serial killer who operated in Sacramento was a tiny little old lady named

2:18.3

Dorothea Puente and that's who we're talking about this week but before we get into the story

2:23.3

Melissa is going to tell us a little more about Sacramento in this week's segment of we googled

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