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Podcast: Every Town
Episode: Sacramento, CA - Death House Landlady - Dorothea Puente
Description: To her neighbors, Dorothea Puente seemed almost saint-like. She opened her home to shelter society’s outcasts: the homeless, the mentally-ill, alcoholics, drug addicts, and even frail, sickly old people. She was known to provide meals and medical care for her marginalized tenants, gave out backyard vegetables to her neighbors, and adopted stray cats. How could her neighbors not admire the kind woman who also contributed money for political campaigns and charitable endeavors? But Dorothia’s Sacramento, California community was rocked in 1988 when it was discovered that on the grounds of her property was a mass grave of elderly tena...