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Dorothea Puente was ultimately accused of killing nine people but a jury wasn t convinced. Dorthea Puente
Plenty of people in the hospitality business get reputations for killing guests with kindness. Dorothea Puente, who ran an unlicensed Sacramento boarding house, became infamous for actually killing residents in the 1980s.
Convicted of three slayings, Puente earned the nickname the Death House Landlady. The two-part Oxygen series “Murders at the Boarding House chronicles Puente’s unsettling story.
“Puente preyed on what investigators called ‘shadow people’ the elderly, alcoholics and the disabled,” The Los Angeles Times reported in her obituary. “Though there were no witnesses to the slayings, prosecutors said Puente was one of the most ‘cold, calculating’ female serial killers the country had ever seen.”
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EXCLUSIVE: When John Cabrera was face-to-face with Dorothea Puente for the very first time, he saw a sweet grandmother – not a serial killer. I was taken aback, the retired Sacramento Police detective told Fox News. I was bewildered as I began talking to her.
The case of the death house landlady is being explored in a new true-crimedocumentary on Oxygen titled Murders at the Boarding House as part of the network’s Serial Killer Week. The two-part special features never-before-seen footage from Puente’s police interrogation, as well as interviews with the key players from the investigations.
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Kelly Blackwell longs to escape her life as a transgender woman in a California men’s prison, where she struggles every day to avoid being seen in her bra and panties and says she once faced discipline after fighting back when an inmate in her cell asked for oral sex.
After more than 30 years, and two decades since Blackwell began hormone therapy, her chance to leave arrived last fall when groundbreaking legislation gave transgender, intersex and nonbinary inmates the right, regardless of anatomy, to choose whether to be housed in a male or female prison.
What exactly did Blackwell do to get more than 30 years in the pen?