In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale peels back the lace curtains of 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California—home to Dorothea Puente, the sweet, elderly landlady with a deadly secret. From the outside, she was charitable, Christian, and grandmotherly. But inside her Victorian boarding house, she was forging checks, drugging the elderly, and burying her victims in the backyard. Operating during the 1980s, Puente preyed on society’s most vulnerable—disabled tenants, mentally ill men, and the elderly—killing them for their Social Security benefits. With chilling detail, this 28-minute episode dives into her traumatic childhood, decades of fraud, a backyard full of corpses, and a trial that shocked the nation. She wasn’t a monster in the shadows. She was the one who served you tea.

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