Description: This video shows police interviews as part of the serial murder investigation of Dorothea Puente. The interviews were conducted by Sacramento Police Department Detectives John Cabrera and Terry Brown, and include Puente, Mervin "John" McCauley, Ricardo Ordorica, and John Sharp. Part of the video shows the empty interrogation room with background conversation between the detectives and others talking about the case. This video is part of The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente case files (Sacramento County Superior Court criminal case #18056).

Dorothea Helen Puente (1929 – 2011) was an American convicted serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California and murdered various elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks. Seven people were found buried in the yard beside and in front of the house. Her total count reached nine confirmed murders, and six unconfirmed. Newspapers dubbed Puente the "Death House Landlady". The house on F Street has been renovated several times since 1988. 

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