Dorothea Puente

I'm bored, so before I go sleep I am going to write some information that I know about this serial killer that I researched for Criminal Justice. Her name is Dorothea Puente. The first time she killed anyone, she was 53 years old from the knowledge of the internet. She was a very nice lady at first notice. She would take in the disabled elderly who were recieving social security checks as boarders for a low rate. There was delicious meals at breakfast time and supper time, though if you weren't there on time you didn't get fed. And you couldn't enter the kitchen, ever, after breakfast and supper time. So these checks that her boarders were receiving, the boarders weren't allowed to touch the mail. She looked through all of the mail, and took the checks herself. She would forge their signatures and take their money for herself.
Before this all started of course, her parents had died within a year of each other and she was married to Fred. They had two children, but Dorothea gave both of them away. One to some family and one went up for adoption. It was when she had a miscarriage that Fred left her. She lied about his abandoning her. She also ended up in jail multiple times. Once for forging checks, another for owning a brothel, yet another for vagrancy. (sidenote! my classmates didn't know what a brothel was, so I shall tell you...it's a whore house). After getting arrested for all that she went to bars and asked around about older men's benefits. She was charged with 34 counts of forgery from this, since she ended up with their checks somehow.
It was after she got out of prison for that, that she became a serial killer. If any of her boarders complained that they weren't getting their money, she would kill them and bury them in her backyard. She was eventually caught because she killed the wrong boarder and couldn't do a follow-up story like she did with all of the other victims of hers. The police came, saw freshly messed with dirt, and started to dig. She just stood there and look surprised when they found a body.
She was tried for 9 murders, she was only proved guilty by the jury of 3. There isn't a reason why they didn't convict her of all 9 when the bodies, aside from at least one, were in her backyard. She was given life in prison without parole.
Dorothea denied ever killing anyone up to her death this very year. She died of natural causes. The funny fact being she claimed all her victims had died of natural causes. She just buried them without telling anyone, because owning a boarding house was against her parole and she would be thrown back in jail. Federal Officers visited her 15 times in two years to make sure she wasn't breaking parole, and somehow they managed not to notice that she had elderly boarders.
So that is the story about Dorothea :) Hope you enjoy...and you probably will have some nightmares about it now XD