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Female Serial Killer's California Home For Sale

By David KnowlesFeb 26th 2010 – 9:28PM
AP

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(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...

Background on Dorothea Puente

Dorothea Helen Puente (January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was 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.

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