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California Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Dead At 82

One of the very few female serial killers has died.

Dorothea Puente killed seven elderly tenants and buried them in her backyard in Sacramento.

The story made headlines back in 1988.

A jury convicted Puente of three murders.

The judge sentenced her to life in prison.

She died Sunday of natural causes at the central california women’s prison in chowchilla.

She was 82.

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