Dorothea Puente serial killings

Dorothea Puente

Dorothea Helen Puente (January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders. Those who complained were killed and buried in her yard.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea Puente
• Norton, C., 1995, Disturbed Ground, HarperColins, New York, 393p.