How serial killer Dorothea Puente got away with murdering Ruth Monroe
March 3, 2022
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Serial killer Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in the 1980s that housed homeless and mentally ill people. She got them to sign over their social security checks to her in exchange for room and board and then systematically drugged, killed them, and buried them in her backyard. Since no one ever checked on most of her victims she was able to kill them and still collect their checks. Before she embarked on this deadly scheme, Dorothea had gotten away with murdering her friend Ruth Monroe.