“The Death House Landlady” Pt. 1 - Dorothea Puente

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This is a crossover special with the hosts of Serial Killers and Female Criminals. Dorothea Puente didn’t set out to become Sacramento, California’s most notorious female serial killer. But she did have a criminal streak that grew more sinister, culminating in the deaths of almost a dozen residents of the boarding house she ran. How was she able to evade detection from family members and social workers? And how did she get away with her first murder? Listen to part 2 now on the Female Criminals feed. Part 2 will not be on the Serial Killers feed. Thanks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.6	On April 27th, 1982, Bill Monroe stopped by to visit his 61-year-old mother, Ruth, at a San Francisco
0:59.3	boarding house. Ruth's landlady had alerted Bill that his mother was ill and Bill wanted to check on her.
1:06.6	As Bill climbed the creaky stairs of the old Victorian house, the landlady followed close behind, but Bill closed the door as she tried to follow him into Ruth's bedroom.
1:17.0	He wanted to visit with his mother privately.
1:20.0	Bill tried to get Ruth to talk to him, but she would only stare at the wall, curled into the
1:25.4	fetal position. Ruth hadn't ever had any real health problems, and Bill expected she to recover.
1:31.6	So after a short visit, he left. Had Ruth's voice not been locked
1:36.0	inside her paralyzed body, she could have told her son that she thought her new
1:40.8	landlady had slipped something into the Kremdementh cocktails Ruth
1:44.8	drank to relax.
1:46.8	Ruth died four days after Bill's visit.
1:49.9	It wasn't until weeks later that Bill began to believe that something wasn't right about
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