Find out how California detectives determined that a grandmotherly landlady was a serial killer whose backyard garden hid ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: When John Cabrera was face-to-face with Dorothea Puente for the very first time, he saw a sweet grandmother – not a serial killer. "I was taken aback," the retired Sacramento Police ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — She was the sweet grandmother who became the black widow of Sacramento. Dorothea Puente, the sweet-faced senior who drugged and murdered her elderly and disabled tenants, then ...

SACRAMENTO — You may know it as The Boarding House Murders, the Puente killings, or the bodies that were dug up on F Street. Over the years, the story of one of Sacramento's most notorious serial ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO — To many, she was a gentle woman ...

Sacramento’s very own serial killer, Dorothea Puente, is back to tell her story. Almost thirty-seven years after the first body was dug up on her property, the F St. boarding house killer has shown up ...

A whole new group of people are learning about Dorothea Puente, the notorious serial killer, after she was recently profiled in the first episode of the popular Netflix show "Worst Roommate Ever." ...