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 ...

Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, was so seemingly non-threatening that authorities let her out of their sights time and time again — even after digging up seven bodies in ...

Back in the 1980s, a woman named Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house for vulnerable people in Sacramento, California. Eventually, it emerged that she had murdered some of her guests, targeting those ...

Susan Priver stars as real-life grandmother and 1980s serial killer Dorothea Puente in director Chad Ferrin's film that is ...

Chad Ferrin said he'd never seen Dorothea Puente's episode of the Netflix series "Worst Roommate Ever," nor had he visited her boarding house where she fatally poisoned residents in the 1980s. He'd ...

Convicted serial killer Dorothea Puente died in Central California Women’s Facility prison on Sunday. But her legacy will live on past her death. And not just the legacy of her murders, but her ...

With her chiffon dresses, thick-rimmed glasses, grey hair and litter of kittens, Dorothea Puente looked like a sweet old lady – even insisting to some, “Call me Grandma.” But looks can be extremely ...

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 ...

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 ...