The Dark Corners Podcast

Today’s episode will be the first of two installments. For this 2 parter, Rae will be telling us about the life and crimes of Dorothea Puente. Dorothea is also known as “The Landlady from Hell”.   Dorothea’s reign of terror ended in 1988 after she was arrested by Sacramento police. Dorothea ran a boarding house, and after her tenants started disappearing with no explanation, she would eventually be caught in her own web of lies. Dorothea had been killing her tenants, and burying their bodies in her yard. She escaped detection for years by making everyone around her believe she was just your loving, friendly neighborhood grandma! This case is WILD you guys.   Part 1 will be focusing on Dorothea’s early life, and her upbringing. We will also start discussing Dorothea’s earliest crimes, leading up her first murders. Part 2 of this case will be released Sunday!   Let us know what you think, and as always, thanks for listening!   

SHOW NOTES:  

 “Call me grandma” Netflix // “Worst Roommate Ever”  

Dorothea Helen Puente Murderpedia https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/puente-dorothea.htm 

Youtube // Center for Sacramento History “Dorothea Puente Police Interview - November 1988” https://youtu.be/JIBPOCWEqwY 

Youtube // KCRA 3 “Famous KCRA moments on camera: On a plane with a serial killer” https://youtu.be/tnI1xIToIr8

On May 31st, 2014, emergency dispatchers in Waukesha, Wisconsin received a rather chilling 911 call. A cyclist named Greg Steinberg had discovered the body of a 12 year old girl on the side of the road. This girl’s name was Payton “Bella” Leutner, and she somehow crawled out of the nearby woods after being viscously stabbed 19 times. She had been left for dead.   Bella’s two “best” friends, Anissa Weir (12), and Morgan Geyser (also 12) had attempted to sacrifice her to a boogeyman known as  “The Slenderman”.  Join us this week as Gage tells us the terrifying true story of two 12 year old girls who almost slaughtered their classmate in order to appease Slenderman. Let us know what you think, and as always, thanks for listening!    

SHOW NOTES:   

HBO Documentary “Beware The Slenderman” : https://youtu.be/3maaA1GLVeQ 

New York Times Article regarding the early release of Anissa Weir: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/11/us/slender-man-anissa-weier-release.html 

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article “Morgan Geyser withdraws petition for early release”: https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/waukesha/2022/08/10/slender-man-defendant-morgan-geyser-withdraws-petition-release/10290741002/ 

Full 911 Call made by Greg Steinberg: https://youtu.be/FDJk-yXc2FQ

We introduce to you our first installment of our “Hometown Legends” series! In this series, we’ll be focusing on dark, as well as haunted lore from our home state of Georgia! Georgia is a pretty spooky state after all!  In this first installment, Rae tells us about the alleged curse, as well as the  extremely morbid history of Georgia’s most haunted man-made lake! Lake Lanier. Rae also explains to us the incredibly tragic history of the city that lies beneath Lanier, the city of Oscarville. This episode will for sure leave an impression on you! Let us know what you think, and as always, thanks for listening!

Gainesville Times Article on Oscarville: https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/history/truth-behind-oscarville-once-prosperous-black-town-now-covered-lake-lanier/

Elizabeth was the absolute sweetest, and most loving child that you could ever meet. Her favorite color was pink, and she meant the absolute world to everyone who knew her.  On October 21st, 2009, the small town of St. Martins, Missouri would be thrust into panic after Elizabeth’s mother reported her as a missing person. She went outside to play that evening, and never came back home. No one was prepared for the absolute horror that was the truth.  9 year old Elizabeth was lured into the woods behind her house, where she was brutally murdered by her 15 year old neighbor, Alyssa Bustamante. Alyssa’s motive? She simply wanted to know what it “felt like” to kill someone.   Join us, as Gage tells us this absolutely horrific tale. Let us know what you think! As always, we appreciate you listening!  

This weeks episode is going to take us WAYYY down you guys. Extremely so. Christa Gail Pike was only 18 years old when she brutally beat, and tortured 19 year old Colleen Slemmer to death outside of the Job Corps program campus in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was accompanied by two other students. The only thing more horrid than what Christa did to Colleen is the reason she gave for doing so. Christa killed Colleen because she was convinced that Colleen was trying to “steal” her 17 year old boyfriend away from her. This murder was so heinous, so incredibly depraved, so savage, that Christa would be given the death penalty at her sentencing trial in 1996. She was only 20 years old when she was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by the electric chair. Making her the youngest woman in America to ever receive the death penalty. Join us, as Gage tells us this absolutely horrific story. Please listen with caution! Let us know what you think, and as always, thanks for listening! 

In the morning hours of Monday, April 28th, 2014, a very frantic 911 call was made from Corpus Christi Catholic College located in Leeds, England. The Spanish teacher at this school, 61 year-old Ann Maguire, had been savagely stabbed to death by one of her own students. Ann was in the middle of helping a student with schoolwork when 15 year-old William Cornick walked up behind her with a large kitchen knife and started stabbing her. William had pre packed the weapon in his backpack on his way to school that morning, along with a bottle of Jack Daniels so he could have a celebratory drink after he murdered his teacher. Explore with us, as Gage tells us this absolutely shocking story. What could have caused this 15 year-old boy to feel so much hatred, so much viscousness towards his teacher that he executes her in front of her entire class? The answers may very well shock you! Let us know what you think, and as always, thank you so much for listening! 

Join us this week as Rae tells us the unbelievable story of a Florida woman who killed her boyfriend by zipping him up in a suitcase, and leaving him to suffocate as she slept. She even recorded her boyfriend on her phone begging for his life as she laughed. This woman was 42 year-old Sarah Boone. On Monday, February 25th, 2020, Sarah made a frantic 911 call to Winter Park authorities. She was saying that she discovered her boyfriend dead inside a suitcase she had zipped him up in the night before while they were playing “Hide and Seek”. This story is absolutely horrific, as well as completely mind bending! As always, let us know what you think! We appreciate you tuning in! See you next week lovely ghouls 

This weeks case is a ridiculously intense one you guys. For this episode, Gage tells us the story of one of the most gruesome, most viscous homicides in the history of Ireland.  It was in late March of 2005 when sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall brutally murdered and dismembered their mother’s boyfriend, then disposed of his body parts in the royal canal located in Dublin, Ireland. This savagery of this crime absolutely shocked not only the people of Ireland, but the entire world.  Join us as we discuss not only the crimes of, but also the lives of both Linda and Charlotte. This one will for sure leave an impression on you! As always, thanks for listening! Let us know what you think! See you all next week, lovely ghouls!