Dorothea Puente "THE KILLER THE GARDEN OF DEATH" (USA)
Biography:
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Dorothea Helen Puente (I was born on January 9, 1929) is a convicted killer, American series. In the 1980s, Bridge opened a guest house in Sacramento, California, where asilaba to elderly, disabled ... she collected the Social Security checks pensioners elderly and mentally disabled. Those who complained were killed and buried in the garden of flowers.
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Puente was born as Dorothea Helen Gray in San Bernardino County, California. His parents - Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray -. They worked as cotton pickers. Puente's father died of tuberculosis when she was eight years old, and his mother died in a motorcycle accident a year later. She was sent to an orphanage until relatives from Fresno, California, took her to live with them. In her life, she used to lie about his childhood, saying that it was one of three children who were born and raised in Mexico.
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Dorothea Helen Puente (I was born on January 9, 1929) is a convicted killer, American series. In the 1980s, Bridge opened a guest house in Sacramento, California, where asilaba to elderly, disabled ... she collected the Social Security checks pensioners elderly and mentally disabled. Those who complained were killed and buried in the garden of flowers.
. Puente was born as Dorothea Helen Gray in San Bernardino County, California. His parents - Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray -. They worked as cotton pickers. Puente's father died of tuberculosis when she was eight years old, and his mother died in a motorcycle accident a year later. She was sent to an orphanage until relatives from Fresno, California, took her to live with them. In her life, she used to lie about his childhood, saying that it was one of three children who were born and raised in Mexico.
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In
1945, he married for the first time at the age of 16 with a soldier
named Fred McFaul, who had just returned from the Pacific. Dorothea
had two daughters between 1946 and 1948, but one sent one of his
relatives in Sacramento, and another gave up for adoption. Dorothea became pregnant again in 1948, but suffered a miscarriage. In late 1948, McFaul became fed up and she left. Humiliated
by abandonment, Dorothea began to lie about their marriage and claimed
that her husband died of a heart attack within days of their marriage. In
an attempt to earn an income, he tried to forge checks, but was
eventually caught and sentenced to one year in prison, was paroled after
six months. Shortly after his release, she was impregnated
by a man she barely knew and gave birth to a daughter, whom she gave up
for adoption. In 1952, he married a Swede named Axel Johanson, and had a turbulent marriage of 14 years.
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In 1960, he was arrested for possession and management of a brothel and was sentenced to 90 days in the Sacramento County Jail. After his release, he was arrested again, this time for vagrancy, and sentenced to another 90 days in jail. After that, she began a criminal career that over time became more serious. He found work as an assistant nurse, care for the disabled and the elderly in private homes. Before long, he began managing pensions.
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She divorced Johansen in 1966 and married Roberto Puente, a man 19 years her junior, in Mexico City. The marriage only lasted two years. Shortly after he finished, Dorothea Puente took over a three - story house, nursing home 16 rooms at F no. 2100 in Sacramento, California. There, he allegedly provided care and comfort to the homeless and destitute in the area.
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Bridge married for the fourth time in 1976 with Pedro Montalvo, who was a violent alcoholic. The marriage only lasted a few months, and Puente started to spend time in local bars looking for older men who were receiving the benefits of your pension. She forged their signatures to steal their money, but eventually was captured and charged with 34 counts of fraud to the Treasury. Although I was paroled to continue with more fraud.
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According to the California Court of Appeal records, in 1981 Puente rent an apartment above the number 1426 F Street in downtown Sacramento. The nine murders with which he was charged in 1988 (who was convicted in 1993 of three of them) were associated with this upstairs apartment and not the former house of 16 rooms.
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She divorced Johansen in 1966 and married Roberto Puente, a man 19 years her junior, in Mexico City. The marriage only lasted two years. Shortly after he finished, Dorothea Puente took over a three - story house, nursing home 16 rooms at F no. 2100 in Sacramento, California. There, he allegedly provided care and comfort to the homeless and destitute in the area.
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Bridge married for the fourth time in 1976 with Pedro Montalvo, who was a violent alcoholic. The marriage only lasted a few months, and Puente started to spend time in local bars looking for older men who were receiving the benefits of your pension. She forged their signatures to steal their money, but eventually was captured and charged with 34 counts of fraud to the Treasury. Although I was paroled to continue with more fraud.
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According to the California Court of Appeal records, in 1981 Puente rent an apartment above the number 1426 F Street in downtown Sacramento. The nine murders with which he was charged in 1988 (who was convicted in 1993 of three of them) were associated with this upstairs apartment and not the former house of 16 rooms.
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Puente's reputation in the guest house has been uneven. Some
tenants resented her stinginess and complained that she refused to give
them their mail or their money, others praised for their small acts of
kindness or for their generous homemade meals. Bridge reasons to kill the occupants were apparently financial, police estimates ill - gotten revenue totaling more than $ 5000 dollars a month. When she was arrested, Dorothea was in possession of expensive perfume and silk dresses.
. The killings appear to have begun shortly after Puente began renting in the F Street house no. 1426. In April 1982, a friend of 61 - year-old business partner, Ruth Monroe began living with Puente in her upstairs apartment, but soon died of an overdose of codeine and paracetamol. Puente told police that the woman was very depressed because her husband was terminally ill. It was believed that she would one committed suicide had been, but many believe that Ruth was another victim of Dorothea. A few weeks later, police were back when a retired 74 - year-old boy named Malcolm McKenzie accused Puente of having drugging for rob him. She was convicted of three counts of theft on August 18, 1982, and sentenced to five years in prison. In prison, he began to correspond with a retired 77 - year-old in Oregon, called Everson Gillmouth. Both made a pen pal, when Puente was released in 1985 after serving only three years of his sentence, Everson was waiting at a red Ford 1980 truck Their relationship developed quickly, and the couple was soon making plans wedding. They opened a joint bank account and paid rent of $ 600 a month for the upstairs apartment at F 1426 in Sacramento. . In November 1985, Puente hired a maintenance worker, Ismael Flores, to install some panels wood in your apartment. For his work would cost $ 800 dollars, Puente gave the 1980 Ford truck red in good condition, they said, belonged to her boyfriend who traveled to Los Angeles and no longer needed. Dorothea Puente asked Florez if he could fabricarle a box for storing books and other items, then asked to accompany her to throw the box in a dustbin near a river on Garden Highway in Sutter County. . On 1 January 1986, a fisherman saw the box about three meters from the river bank and called the police. The researchers found a body decomposed and unidentifiable an old man. Meanwhile, Puente continued to collect Everson Gillmouth pensions and wrote letters to his family, explaining that the reason I had not contacted them was because he was sick. She also rented a nursing home with "room and board" taking 40 new tenants (most of whom were elderly, alcoholics or drug addicts). Although it was doing a good business, she wanted more money and therefore began visiting bars frequently for new customers. Gillmouth body remained unidentified for three years . . Puente continued to accept elderly tenants, and became popular among local social workers because she accepted "difficult cases" as drug addicts and abusive tenants.
. The killings appear to have begun shortly after Puente began renting in the F Street house no. 1426. In April 1982, a friend of 61 - year-old business partner, Ruth Monroe began living with Puente in her upstairs apartment, but soon died of an overdose of codeine and paracetamol. Puente told police that the woman was very depressed because her husband was terminally ill. It was believed that she would one committed suicide had been, but many believe that Ruth was another victim of Dorothea. A few weeks later, police were back when a retired 74 - year-old boy named Malcolm McKenzie accused Puente of having drugging for rob him. She was convicted of three counts of theft on August 18, 1982, and sentenced to five years in prison. In prison, he began to correspond with a retired 77 - year-old in Oregon, called Everson Gillmouth. Both made a pen pal, when Puente was released in 1985 after serving only three years of his sentence, Everson was waiting at a red Ford 1980 truck Their relationship developed quickly, and the couple was soon making plans wedding. They opened a joint bank account and paid rent of $ 600 a month for the upstairs apartment at F 1426 in Sacramento. . In November 1985, Puente hired a maintenance worker, Ismael Flores, to install some panels wood in your apartment. For his work would cost $ 800 dollars, Puente gave the 1980 Ford truck red in good condition, they said, belonged to her boyfriend who traveled to Los Angeles and no longer needed. Dorothea Puente asked Florez if he could fabricarle a box for storing books and other items, then asked to accompany her to throw the box in a dustbin near a river on Garden Highway in Sutter County. . On 1 January 1986, a fisherman saw the box about three meters from the river bank and called the police. The researchers found a body decomposed and unidentifiable an old man. Meanwhile, Puente continued to collect Everson Gillmouth pensions and wrote letters to his family, explaining that the reason I had not contacted them was because he was sick. She also rented a nursing home with "room and board" taking 40 new tenants (most of whom were elderly, alcoholics or drug addicts). Although it was doing a good business, she wanted more money and therefore began visiting bars frequently for new customers. Gillmouth body remained unidentified for three years . . Puente continued to accept elderly tenants, and became popular among local social workers because she accepted "difficult cases" as drug addicts and abusive tenants.
. During this period, the probation officers visited
Puente, who had been ordered to stay away from the elderly and refrain
from manipulating government controls, at least fifteen times visited
the residence. They did not observe anything abnormal.
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Suspicions aroused when Dorothea hosted a homeless alcoholic known only as "Boss", who worked as a handyman. Bridge made the Chief dig in the basement floor, taking land in a wheelbarrow. At that time, the basement was covered with a concrete slab. The head disappeared shortly after.
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Suspicions aroused when Dorothea hosted a homeless alcoholic known only as "Boss", who worked as a handyman. Bridge made the Chief dig in the basement floor, taking land in a wheelbarrow. At that time, the basement was covered with a concrete slab. The head disappeared shortly after.
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Dorothea Puente is a hedonistic serial killer. She is classified as a sub-category of hedonistic known as "the murderer of convenience". This type of murderers kill to make money or material goods.
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On
November 11, 1988, police asked for the disappearance of tenant Alvaro
Montoya, a disabled person with schizophrenia that a social worker had
reported missing. After noticing disturbed soil on the property Bridge, they discovered the body of tenant Leona Carpenter, 78. A
total of seven bodies were found over time, and Puente was charged with
a total of nine murders, convicted of three and is now serving two life
sentences.
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During
the initial investigation, Puente was not suspicious, and was allowed
to leave the property, ostensibly to buy a cup of coffee at a nearby
hotel. Instead, she fled to Los Angeles, where she
immediately befriended an elderly pensioner, who recognized the police
reports and called authorities, but not before paying some of their
expenses.
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His trial was moved to Monterey County on a change of venue motion filed by his lawyers, Kevin Clymo and Pedro P. Vlautin, III. The trial began in October 1992 and ended a year later.
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Prosecutor John O'Mara, was the best lawyer in the office of Sacramento County. He called more than 130 witnesses. He
argued that the defendant had used a sleeping pill to get your tenants
to rest, then had suffocated, and hired workers to dig trenches in your
yard.
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The jury deliberated for a month and found guilty of three murders. They could not agree on others.
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Bridge is currently incarcerated in Central California Women (CCWF) in Madera County. She maintains her innocence and insists that all tenants died of natural causes. At
81 years old, is being treated at a hospital undisclosed, said Terry
Thornton, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation.
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