Dorothea Helen Puente (born January 9, 1929) is a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders. Those who complained were killed and buried in her yard.

In 1945, she was married for the first time at the age of 16 to a soldier named Fred McFaul, who had just returned from the Pacific. Dorothea had two daughters between 1946 and 1948, but she sent one to relatives in Sacramento, and gave the other up for adoption. Dorothea became pregnant again in 1948, but suffered a miscarriage. In late 1948, McFaul became fed up and left her.



The murders appear to have begun shortly after Puente began renting out space in the home at 1426 F Street.[citation needed] In April 1982, 61-year-old friend and business partner Ruth Monroe began living with Puente in her upstairs apartment, but soon died from an overdose of codeine and Tylenol. Puente told police that the woman was very depressed because her husband was terminally ill. They believed her and judged the incident a suicide but many believe that Ruth was another one of Dorothea's victims.

Dorothea Puente is a hedonistic serial killer. She would be classified in a sub-category of hedonistic known as the comfort killer. The comfort killer kills for “creature comfort” reasons. These reasons take the form of things for the killer to gain. This can be money or material goods that "nourish" the killer in some manner. The main reason for such a killer to commit his or her crimes is to use their gains to enjoy life or to get what he or she needs. For the comfort killer, killing is just a step in order to gain what they need to live life. Displays of aggression are not the characteristic of this type of killer. Most comfort oriented killers kill quietly.

On November 11, 1988, police inquiring after the disappearance of tenant Alvaro Montoya, a developmentally disabled schizophrenic whose social worker had reported him missing. After noticing disturbed soil on the property, they uncovered the body of tenant Leona Carpenter, 78. Seven bodies were eventually found, and Puente was charged with a total of nine murders, convicted of three, and is now serving two life sentences.


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