Dorothea had a hard life from the start. From having abusive if not absent parents to becoming an orphan within a short time. She and her siblings were separated and she was alone in the world. She found herself often following in her mothers footsteps working as a sex worker for money and then drinking it away. Still she wanted more in life and so she opened a boarding house. Nobody thought anything of the staggering number of people who vanished, Dorothea took care of homeless and alcoholics known to fall back into street life more often than not. Until one day a volunteer came looking for one of those homeless men that she had grown attached to. With no answers the police were asked to investigate, what they unearthed would send a grandmotherly figure to prison for the rest of her life. 

Sources:

 Green, Ryan. 2019. Buried Beneath the Boarding House.

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