When the Sacramento Police Department receives a missing person's report from a concerned social worker, they send Det. John Cabrera to the boarding house where the individual was last seen. The elderly landlady, Dorothea Puente, is friendly and cooperative, but when Cabrera discovers human remains in the backyard, Puente falls under suspicion of murder. |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: No Rating | |
Released: | April 17, 2021 | |
Runtime: | 65 min | |
Genres: | Crime | |
Countries: | United States | |
Companies: | Oxygen True Crime | |
Never come across the case of the unlikely female multiple murderer Dorothea Puente before and this two part series does an excellent job of explaining her crimes - it includes multiple perspectives from the cop who opened the case up, the social workers who placed the victims, the coroner and lawyers from both the prosecution and defence - and most importantly, testimony from one of the victims family, which allows us to hear about who they were and makes the story both more human and more tragic.
This is another one of those that could’ve been told in ten minutes but stretched out way too long. Don’t waste your time. 1/5