Find out how California detectives determined that a grandmotherly landlady was a serial killer whose backyard garden hid ...

SACRAMENTO — You may know it as The Boarding House Murders, the Puente killings, or the bodies that were dug up on F Street. Over the years, the story of one of Sacramento's most notorious serial ...

The innocuous-seeming woman committed some of the most notorious murders in Sacramento's history Owen Brewer/Sacramento Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a handwritten recipe framed on the wall of Tom Williams and Barbara Holmes’ home in Mansion Flats. They’ve never made it, but don’t think much of the creator’s cooking — or anything else about ...