Even the most conniving serial killers grow old — so don’t let little old men or little old women fool you into thinking they're all sweet. Take Dorothea Helen Puente, for example. She's one of ...

Welcome back, Dorothea. It’s been a while. First, we got to know you through your scandalous gardening techniques of burying bodies in your Sacramento backyard in the 1980s, a grave situation. Then, ...

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 ...

There were no surprises when Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams bought their two-story Victorian home at 1426 F St. at auction for $226,000 in 2010. They outbid just one other contestant in a packed room ...

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 ...