Dorothea Puente
Dorothea operated a boarding house in Sacramento, California
where she offered quality lodgings for elderly people on fixed incomes. She also
offered poison and a bed of flowers to bury their corpses in. As she offed her
boarders she kept cashing their social security checks. In 1988, after too many
of her boarders disappeared, cops showed up with shovels and unearthed seven
corpses from her garden. Another body discovered in the Sacramento River in 1986
was added to her hit list. It's believed that she might have killed up to
twenty-five others. She was arrested in Los Angeles on November 17, 1988 after
she inquired about an acquaintance's disability check and offered to fix him a
nice Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings.