Central California Women's Facility, Chowchilla, California, U.S.
Other names
"Death House Landlady" Teya Singoalla Neyaarda Sharon Johansson
Conviction(s)
First-degree murder with special circumstances (2 counts) Second-degree murder
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment without parole
Details
Victims
9 (convicted of 3)
Span of crimes
1982–1988
Country
United States
State(s)
California
Date apprehended
November 11, 1988
Dorothea Helen Puente (née Gray; January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, she ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks.[1] Puente's total count reached nine murders; she was convicted of three and the jury hung on the other six. Newspapers dubbed Puente the "Death House Landlady".[2]
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