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To many, Dorothea Puente seemed like an angel. The older woman presented herself as a caretaker, running a boarding house in Sacramento, California that took in the kind of people society often ...

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Despite her white hair and kindly demeanor, Dorothea Puente was not a sweet old lady. No, instead Puente was responsible for one of Sacramento's most notorious murder sprees. The serial killer who ...