Dorothea Puente

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First Name	Dorothea
Middle Name	Helen
Last Name	Puente
Maiden Name	Gray
Full Name at Birth	Dorothea Helen Gray
Alternative Name	Dorothea Helen Puente Gray, Dorothea Helen Gray, Dorothea Gray, Dorothea Helen Puente, Dorothea Montalvo, Teya Singoalla Neyaarda, Sharon Johansson, The Black Widow of Sacramento, The Grandma Serial Killer, The Death House Landlady
Birthday	9th January, 1929
Birthplace	Redlands, California, USA
Died	27th March, 2011
Place of Death	Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, USA
Cause of Death	Natural Causes
Buried	Cremated (Ashes given to her family)
Height	5' 2" (157 cm)
Weight	130lbs (59 kg)
Eye Color	Blue
Hair Color	White
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Sexuality	Straight
Ethnicity	White
Nationality	American
Occupation Text	American Serial Killer, Elderly Care Home Operator
Occupation	Criminal
Music Genre (Text)	Serial Killing, Violence Against The Elderly, Elder Abuse, SENTENCE: Life imprisonment without parole, JOB: Elderly Care Home Operator, Murder For Financial Gain (9 victims), Domestic Violence, CONVICTION: First-degree murder with special circumstances (2 counts), CONVICTION: Second-degree murder, Violence Against The Mentally Disabled, Dysfunctional Family Upbringing (sexually abused while at an orphanage / alcoholic parents), Childhood sexual abuse, Death By Natural Causes, Death In Custody, SENTENCE: 15-years-to-life sentence (Second-degree murder), mariticide (a former boyfriend found in a box in the Sacramento River), Exploitation of the vulnerable (the Elderly and Alcoholics And The Disabled), Drugging victims to facilitate crimes (used drugs to overdose her victims and then collected their money and Social Security checks), CONVICTION: forging checks, Murder By Overdosing Victims with sedatives and other medications, Forgery (Puente was convicted of forging checks stolen from her tenants), Social Security Fraud (After murdering her tenants Puente continued to cash their Social Security checks and other benefits), CONVICTION: Running a Brothel (In the 1960s Puente was convicted of running a brothel and served time in jail for this crime), SENTENCE: four months in jail and three years' probation for forging checks, MO: She drugged her victims then buried them in her garden and continued to collect their Social Security checks, CONVICTION: vagrancy (90 days), JOB: worked as nurse’s aid for the disabled and elderly in private homes, SENTENCE: 90 days in the Sacramento Jail (owning & managing a brothel), SENTENCE: 90 days in jail (Vagrancy), Criminal Disposal Of A Corpse (buried In Backyard)
Year(s) Active	Span of crimes : 1948 — 1988
Official Websites	www.findagrave.com/memorial/67693599/dorothea_helen-puente

Dorothea Helen Puente (née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was convicted of three and the jury hung on the other six. Newspapers dubbed Puente the "Death House Landlady".

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