285: Stranger than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 1

Dorothea Puente was seen as a giver. She operated a boarding house for elderly, mentally ill, chronically ill, or really whoever needed it. But behind her maternal exterior was a far darker motive. To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelicti Our merch store can be found at teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcast Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones"Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.Sources: Dorothea Puente obituary: Dorothea Puente, boarding house operator who killed tenants, dies at 82 - Los Angeles Times Guide to the People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente criminal case records CNTY0004 Puente v. Mitchell, No. C 02-4129 JSW | Casetext Search + Citator Human harvest : the Sacramento murder story : Blackburn, Daniel J., 1943- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Nov 09, 2008, page 1 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com ™ Aug 27, 1993, page 21 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com™ - Newspapers.com™ Landlady Hunted in Mass Murders Captured in L.A. - Los Angeles Times USCOURTS-cand-3_02-cv-04129-0.pdf

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This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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