New Podcast Episode: The Victims of Dorothea Puente
40 years ago, Dorothea Puente had everyone fooled into thinking she was a kindly grandmother. Friends, tenants at her boarding house, social workers and the police all bought her act. In reality, she was much younger than she appeared, and far from kind. Preying upon the elderly, unhoused people and alcoholics, Dorothea assumed no one would search very hard for her victims. For a while she seemed to be getting away with murder as well as fraud. Thanks to one passionate social worker Puente was eventually exposed, and the friends and families of her 9 victims were able to get some closure.
