Dorothea Puente

Puente’s killing spree began in 1982, when she began renting out her apartment in Sacramento, California. She was known as the Death House Landlady.

Puente would take in old folks and occasionally drug addicts, sleep them off, and then suffocate them or poison them. She’d cash their social security checks and keep the money after that.

After a local handicapped man went missing, police were notified of the residence. Puente was charged with nine charges after they discovered seven dead on the premises.

She was given a life sentence, but she died at the Central California Women’s Facility at the age of 82.