On the surface, she looked like everyone’s grandmother — polite, soft-spoken, and generous. Her Victorian home on F Street smelled like cinnamon and bleach, her tenants called her “Mother Teresa with pearls,” and social workers trusted her completely.
 But behind the lace curtains and home-cooked meals was a horror story buried—literally—in her own backyard.

In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we uncover the chilling psychology of Dorothea Puente, the Sacramento landlady who preyed on society’s most vulnerable, murdered them, and buried their bodies just steps from her kitchen. What looked like compassion was actually control and what looked like kindness was calculated.

🎧 In this episode:
• The childhood abandonment that shaped her obsession with identity
• How she weaponized caregiving to manipulate the forgotten
• The psychological cocktail of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
• The horrifying discovery in her backyard that shocked a city
• Why empathy without conscience can become one of the darkest masks of all

Dorothea Puente wasn’t fueled by rage — she was fueled by order, performance, and the illusion of control. This isn’t just a true crime story; it’s a study in how charm, trauma, and emotional mimicry can disguise pure evil.

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