SERIAL KILLER: The Death House Landlady Pt. 2
Serial Killers & Murderous Minds
Crime House
4.5 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the shocking conclusion to the Dorothea Puente story, Killer Minds uncovers how a seemingly warm, grandmotherly caretaker manipulated an entire community while murdering the vulnerable people she vowed to protect. As Dorothea’s fraud escalates into calculated killings, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace her descent into a chilling cycle of deception, exploitation, and control. From forging letters to grieving families to burying victims in her garden, Dorothea’s crimes went unnoticed for years—until one missing tenant and one determined social worker cracked her façade. This episode follows the investigation that exposed the “Death House Landlady” and reveals the psychology behind a killer who hid in plain sight.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. |
| 0:05.5 | Exciting news, conspiracy theories, cults and crimes is leveling up. |
| 0:10.2 | Starting the week of January 12th, you'll be getting two episodes every week. |
| 0:14.8 | Wednesdays, we unravel the conspiracy or the cult, and on Fridays we look at a corresponding crime. |
| 0:21.3 | Every week has a theme. |
| 0:23.0 | Tech, bioterror, power, paranoia, you name it. |
| 0:27.1 | Follow conspiracy theories, cults, and crimes now on your podcast app, |
| 0:31.4 | because you're about to dive deeper, get weirder, and go darker than ever before. |
| 0:52.0 | Music get weirder and go darker than ever before. We've all been misled by someone we trusted. |
| 0:55.8 | Maybe it was our own misguided notions, or maybe they tricked us. |
| 1:00.4 | Either way, we can usually dust ourselves off and learn from the mistake. |
| 1:04.0 | But when it comes to someone as cold and calculated as Dorothea Puente, the deceit can |
| 1:10.4 | leave scars that last a lifetime. |
| 1:13.6 | Dorothea spent decades perfecting her innocent act. |
| 1:17.6 | She convinced everyone around her that she was a respectable, charitable, charitable woman. |
| 1:22.6 | Some people even viewed her as a savior. |
| 1:25.6 | But Dorothea was the opposite. |
| 1:28.2 | And when she finally crossed paths with someone she couldn't trick, |
| 1:31.5 | the world learned she was nothing more than a cold-hearted killer. |
| 1:39.5 | Audeau. |
| 1:51.0 | A lot of... The human mind is powerful. |
| 1:55.1 | It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate. |
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