285: Stranger than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 1

285: Stranger than Fiction: Dorothea Puente, Part 1

From Corpus Delicti by CDM Productions

April 29, 2026 · 42 min

About this episode

The episode explores the dark motives behind Dorothea Puente, who operated a boarding house for vulnerable individuals.

Dorothea Puente was seen as a giver. She operated a boarding house for elderly, mentally ill, chronically ill, or really whoever needed it. But behind her maternal exterior was a far darker motive. To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelicti Our merch store can be found at teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcast Music by:Kai Engel"Daemones"Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.Sources: Dorothea Puente obituary: Dorothea Puente, boarding house operator who killed tenants, dies at 82 - Los Angeles Times Guide to the People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente criminal case records CNTY0004 Puente v. Mitchell, No. C 02-4129 JSW | Casetext Search + Citator Human harvest : the Sacramento murder story : Blackburn, Daniel J., 1943- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Nov 09, 2008, page 1 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com ™ Aug 27, 1993, page 21…

People in this episode

Host: CDM Productions

Topics covered

  • true crime
  • murder
  • boarding house
  • elderly care
  • criminal case

Keywords

  • Dorothea Puente
  • true crime
  • boarding house
  • murder
  • elderly care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Los Angeles Times, Internet Archive, Newspapers.com, Creative Commons

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