EPISODE · Dec 6, 2024 · 0 MIN
S1.E58 - Death House Landlady: Garden Beds & Buried Dead
from The Pandemonium Witches: Murders, Mystery, and Mayhem · host TPW3MPodcast
The Pandemonium team is back with our newest unhinged episode - and this time, it’s MERDER, California-style. We’re digging into the disturbingly twisted case of Dorothea Puente: sweet little granny on the outside, cold-blooded killer underneath.From missing persons and poisonings to stolen checks and secret graves beneath a sunny veggie garden, this is one of the most shocking true crime cases you've probably never heard of - or couldn’t forget if you did.Join Rachel and Cat as they tiptoe through this nightmare of a boarding house in 1980s Sacramento, where vulnerable tenants went in, but didn’t come out. The Death House Landlady wasn’t just cashing checks - she was cashing in on murder.Links We Used - Dorthea Puente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Puentehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothea-puentehttps://www.newsweek.com/we-live-serial-killers-old-home-victims-bedroom-1734043https://www.sactownmag.com/the-life-and-deaths-of-dorothea-puente/https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/dorothea-puente/https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/dorothea-puente-house-qr-code/https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/dorothea-puente-sacramentos-most-notorious-female-serial-killer/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/killing-her-boarders-burying-them-194503281.html
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The Pandemonium team is back with our newest unhinged episode - and this time, it’s MERDER, California-style. We’re digging into the disturbingly twisted case of Dorothea Puente: sweet little granny on the outside, cold-blooded killer underneath.From missing persons and poisonings to stolen checks and secret graves beneath a sunny veggie garden, this is one of the most shocking true crime cases you've probably never heard of - or couldn’t forget if you did.Join Rachel and Cat as they tiptoe through this nightmare of a boarding house in 1980s Sacramento, where vulnerable tenants went in, but didn’t come out. The Death House Landlady wasn’t just cashing checks - she was cashing in on murder.Links We Used - Dorthea Puente: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Puentehttps://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothea-puentehttps://www.newsweek.com/we-live-serial-killers-old-home-victims-bedroom-1734043https://www.sactownmag.com/the-life-and-deaths-of-dorothea-puente/https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/dorothea-puente/https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/dorothea-puente-house-qr-code/https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/dorothea-puente-sacramentos-most-notorious-female-serial-killer/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/killing-her-boarders-burying-them-194503281.html
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S1.E58 - Death House Landlady: Garden Beds & Buried Dead
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