Throughout the 1980s, Puente opened her home as a boarding home to people with mental health and substance abuse issues, according to Sactown. Several social workers in the area would recommend ...

The innocuous-seeming woman committed some of the most notorious murders in Sacramento's history Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, was so seemingly non-threatening ...

Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, was so seemingly non-threatening that authorities let her out of their sights time and time again — even after digging up seven ...