California Serial Killer Dorothea Puente's Home For Sale

(Feb. 26) -- It isn't exactly a real estate agent's dream sales pitch: How would you like to live in a house once owned by a serial killer?

But one newly listed four-bedroom Sacramento, Calif., house comes with such a pedigree. For it was there, at 1426 F St., that Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in the 1980s and is believed to have murdered nine of her guests. Investigators found the bodies of seven people buried in the yard.

Dorothea Puente, shown here in a 1988 mugshot, was convicted of murdering three people at a Sacramento boarding house.

In 1988, Puente, who is now 81, was convicted of three murders and is serving two life sentences at the Central California Women's Facility in Madera County.

Bank of America is selling the 1930s Victorian, which fell into foreclosure last year. Though its price was not listed, it was last sold in 2005 for $560,000. The ornately decorated 1,834-square-foot home, which is located in the Mansion Flats section of Sacramento, comes with three bathrooms.

"It's a duplex, so it's good for an investor," Andrew Chechourka, an agent working to sell the property on behalf of Bank of America, told the Sacramento Bee. "It's ready for move-in."

Chechourka said that while he isn't exactly advertising the property's history, he hasn't tried to keep it secret from potential buyers either.

"It's a basic disclosure item," Chechourka told the Bee.