Old Lady Puente Case Study

Old Lady Puente Dorothea Puente was an elderly lady who rented her house out to other elderly people to live in. Puente had a problem. She was a murderer. Puente cashed in the Social Security checks of the elderly and disabled boarders living in her house. Many of them ended up dead and buried in the boarding house’s yard. I believe that Puente is guilty and she deserved all the jail time that was given to her. Dorothea Puente would kill the elderly people that complained the most. My first claim is that some guests checked in but they never checked out. People would move into the boarding house expecting love and care but what they didn’t realize that they were close to their death. She only killed those who complained about the system

Puente’s friend once lived in her house. Then suddenly her friend dies from a drug overdose. Usually Puente’s murders go like that. Then Puente gets an enormous amount of money after her death. I don’t think her friend just died. I believe she was killed. The police declared her death as a suicide. Another man once lived in her house. Puente drugged him but he didn’t die. As soon as the police came into the scene, he called her out. She was arrested for drugging him then trying to take his money. As soon as she was released from prison, she was told not to be around elderly people and the checks that come in the mail that are not for her. Puente did not listen. She continued to stay around elderly people. Then finally she was able to start allowing elderly people back into her house. “Puente’s reputation in the boarding house was mixed. Some tenants resented her stinginess and complained that she refused to give them their mail or money; others praised her for small acts of kindness or for her generous home-made meals. Puente’s motives for killing tenants were financial, with police estimates of her ill-gotten income totaling more than $5,000 per month. The murders appear to have begun