About this episode

This episode continues the story of Dorothea Puente, detailing her remaining victims and the unfolding of events.

This is a continuation of Dorothea's story, including several remaining victims and how it all unfolded in the end. 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 - The Sacramento Bee at Newspapers.com™ - Newspapers.com™ Landlady Hunted in Mass…

People in this episode

Host: CDM Productions

Topics covered

• true crime
• Dorothea Puente
• murder
• victims
• criminal case
• boarding house

Keywords

• Dorothea Puente
• true crime
• murder
• victims
• boarding house
• California
• criminal case

Mentioned in this episode

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

Books & works: Human harvest : the Sacramento murder story, Daemones, Coal Miners

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