Dorthea Puente 51149
D16-22-3
Box 1508
Chowchilla, CA 93610

Dorthea Puente

Every month, Puente Who had a boarding house where most of her victims lived, collected all the tenants’ mail before they saw it and gave them only a small amount of their money, pocketing the rest.
On November 11, 1988, police found a body buried in the lawn at 1426 F Street. Seven bodies were eventually found, and Puente was charged with a total of nine murders, convicted of three, and is now serving two life sentences.
In 1998, Dorothea began corresponding with Shane Bugbee, who conducted an extensive interview with her over the course of several years. She began sending him various recipes, and in 2004 the book “Cooking With A Serial Killer” was released. It included a lengthy interview, almost 50 recipes, and various pieces of prison art sent to Bugbee by the convicted murderer