Dorothea Puente
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Dorothea Helen Puente, also known as the Killer Landlady or the Death House Landlady, was an American serial killer and financial fraudster who murdered various tenants of the boarding house she ran i
Puente's mugshot on November 17, 1988
Boarding house
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A boarding house is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and
Dorothea Puente
…known as the Killer Landlady or the Death House Landlady, was an American serial killer and financial fraudster who murdered various tenants of the boarding house she ran in Sacramento, California, between 1982 and 1988. Posing as a landlady, Puente procured various elderly and mentally disabled people to stay…
One of the last remaining textile mill boarding houses in Lowell, Massachusetts, on right; part of the Lowell National Historical Park
Early-20th-century dinner in a miners' boarding house in northern Canada
Maroochydore Boarding House, Queensland, circa 1917
Old Boarding House Recovery Engagement Center, Bloomington, Indiana, US