Crime Stories | Season 4 | Episode 4 | The Boarding House Killer | Bill Courage | Richard Belzer 

Can I go get a cup of coffee, WHILST YOU DIG UP DEAD BODIES FROM MY BACK YARD?!!! Nice work police. 🙁

whos here after watching couple buying the house?

Who wouldn't call an ambulance if their mother was fine one day and then, all of a sudden, bedridden and unable to talk?

I wonder how police are so easily fooled by age. Psychosis does not go away once you hit a certain age. The very young and the elderly probably get away with a hell of a lot because they "looked" harmless. People that look like serial killers would have a hard time being serial killers.

So the officer initially searched the house looking for the missing homeless man--"I looked everywhere, I even knocked on the walls"--but somehow he missed the disgusting stench that other tenants complained about & that he later described as "very very foul" in the spare bdrm where body fluids of the deceased were decomposing. How does a police officer miss something like that in a search?

This woman was far far diabolical than Eileen Wournos.

My wife and I on our 1st anniversary of our 1st date (Nov. 15, 1988), decided to drive by this house for the excitement. Of course F street was totally blocked off and completely lit up by generator lamps, the backhoe poised for action. Real creepy. We realized it was creepy of us to rubberneck, but it made our 1st date anniversary unforgettable. Btw, we’ve now been married for 28 years.

20:05 Intuition or not, letting the owner of a house where bodies are buried go "for a coffee" is not very professional police work.

Dorothy Puentes died in prison March 27, 2011. She was born on January 9, 1929, was sentenced on December 11, 1993.

"There's just something about her." Yes, the multiple dead bodies in the back garden. And why wouldn't you expect her to run . Also you don't need to be a detective to know dorothea is her fake name

"A gentle 51 year old schizophrenic" mind blown

This is why giving someone the benefit of the doubt is a bad idea. You can’t just trust anyone just because they look friendly. Some people are just pure evil.

Street Councelor was a badass woman. Good peeps doing Gods work. AttaGIRL

“It was THEN that I knew something had gone on here,” says the detective who just unearthed a SECOND body buried in a yard. It took TWO bodies to realize “something had gone on”?! This guy is a real Nancy Drew.

Poor man. Just wanted to be married 😢

Why was Eileen wournos considered the first female serial killer and not this woman?

This is like a mad movie. But sadly its real. RIP all the victims

I wonder what she wanted all that money for. She wasn't exactly living a glamorous lifestyle of travel and cruises and high fashion......

For the first 6 minutes, I thought Bert was going to be the killer.

Dorothea really tried to escape talking about she wants to grab a cup of coffee 😂

She took gardening to a whole new level

walked by after eating breakfast, the new owners are pretty cool. there are lots of dark humored signs around the outside of the house including, “trespassers will be drugged and buried in the backyard” “the house is innocent” along with a mannequin dressed like Dorothea in handcuffs.

Wow! I guess it's beware of sweet little old ladies, huh!

Is anyone creeped out by the lady thats playing her too? She looks shifty AF herself lol

Never underestimate the old folks

He probably felt horrible, like the world crashed over him, the moment he was told that she's not at the hotel. That's a criminal on the run just because he did not listen to his instinct. He did a mistake for not following his instinct and I understand how horrible it feels to miss something important just because.

Fun fact, Dorothea wrote a cookbook from prison called Cooking with a Serial Killer.

Fun fact: she went to the same prison that was featured on the very first episode of beyond scared straight. The episode was filmed in 2010 just about a few months before she died in early 2011. So she definitely went to a brutal dangerous place.

Dorothea was too nice and this is what happens when people are too nice. Trust no one, live longer.

She's no "mass-murderer", she's a serialkiller! ----- The murders she's committed, didn't happen in a very short timespan or during the period of max. two to three days, directly following consequently the moment of her very first killing(s). - Which is btw the commonly respected description of a "mass-murderer". - They'd also mentioned these facts in the interviews shown during the scenes, when LE has been digging out all her victims' bodies from her backyard; etc. - They'd clearly stated that some of the human remains dated several years back, while others were relatively fresh so that they're able to identify them with their fingerprints. (Meaning the corpses they'd found were from different years). ---- Btw that's a top example why our elderly are so afraid of nursing homes, hospitals & boarding houses, specially when they've no relatives. Or their "loved ones" don't really care bout them and all they obviously want is "their estate/heritage/jewelry&cash". Life is a bad joke, the elderly people have raised, clothed and fed us; we'd be nothing without them/we won't even exist. - They'd deserved way better, imho!

Quite a horror story, the true arsenic and old lace.

2:44 her mugshot, that'll give you nightmares.

Instead of baking cookies and playing mahjong she took up treasure hunting!

1980s California when the mustache was king

I just found your channel yesterday and i LOVE IT!!!

How on earth did she manage to wrap these heavy bodies , move them and get them in a hole then cover them

The couple who now own this house are freaking adorable, they give tours of the house also and have kind of made into into a little museum

This woman was a freakin' monster. She used all kinds of schemes just to get people's money. If the cops checked her house previously, before they started digging, I can't believe they wouldn't have recognized the odor of decomposition.

As a person who has little contact with relatives, this hits home. Sad that this lady took advantage of the unwanted 😠

when the son saw his mom laying in the bed unable to move or speak, why didn't he take her to the hospital or call 911? Why did he just tell his mom that Dorthea will take care of her?

Dorothy Miller one of Dorotheas victims and one of the 2 she was convicted of killing is my grandmother. She lived with us in Texas and ran off one night and hitchhiked to California. So even though these docs say she didnt have family that's not accurate she did but my parents filed the missing persons report in Texas there was no way of knowing she hitchhiked across the country. We didnt know where she went until the day my dad recieved the call telling him his mother had been murdered by a serial killer and buried her in the backyard...I've seen and read almost everything on this case but I havent seen this one so thanks for posting this...

This person who handed to cop the note probably saved their own life. Psychopaths would make the best thriller writers. Too bad they have to act it out for real....

I remember when this happened. We lived close to her

Amazing documentary thank you Bad Day HQ

How stupid the detectives to let her take a coffee break...he knew that she is guilty.

Came here after watching the video of the cute old couple who bought the house

How can anyone on parole for ripping off the elder and forging SSI checks clear a background check especially when considering them as a host for this kind of group home? This is as much fault of Social Services as any.

Dorthea Puente died on March 27th, 2011.

She owned the 🏠? Why didn't the first victim's son sue her.

One thing i couldn't understand why not put emphasis on who helped her, clearly she didn't do all by herself. As far as no niegborhood witnesses some people aren't concerned with the doings of such a nice lady doing her thing in the garden it only adds to why her yard is so pristine. It's a good thing they caught up to her. I had no idea she had been released on good behavior for this. Thanks for sharing videos, i like the style in which these cases unfold very interesting.

“Dorothea’s Cookbook” 🥺🥶🥵

She was a damn Demon!!

This pollice officer! How can anybody be so stupid! No one is ever allowed to leave a possible crime scene. And they knew about her previous criminal record! Good Lord! From the beginning a absolutely nonprofessional police work. Imho.

Love your documentaries. Thanks for the upload 🌹🌹

Lol they let her go get coffee she spun these cops

Bad Day HQ : Many thanks for these gripping uploads. Great stuff !!

First time on this channel love it. Thank you for sharing, BIG UP FROM GUYANA. Love love love

Oh those poor souls taken in the time they should have been retired and enjoying it not winding up dead by someone they believed the could trust. May they all rest in eternal peace.😇

I lived east of Sacramento when this story broke. This was quite a object of discussion for some months after this came out and many macabre jokes also. We called her the murderer of F Street.

If Burt would’ve told the social worker this lady you moved me in with is crazy and I think she’s poisoning me they wouldn’t of believed him anyway.

The coroner cringing at 29:03 after describing how none of the victims had heads, feet, hands, or ANY teeth shook the hell outta me. So horrible.

I know this sounds like 20=20 hindsight but Dorothy Puente definitely does not look like a sweet little old lady. She has a really creepy sinister look about her. She looks mean. In contrast, Bert Montoya and his Social Worker both looked very sweet and kind.

Really cool channel! Thank you!

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25:15, that's not the virgin Mary in the video, that's ST. Francis

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I'll never be able to watch Arsenic and Old Lace the same way again.

I remember when this happened. I was living pretty close to Sacramento.

This recreation, really elaborated. I wanna see more real footage though, personal taste. And this trial, would like to see it too =o 41:51 This guy just hits the table. Hahaha looked funny

This is an unexpected one. That's an evil lady

I am currently reading this on kindle the book. I spent many years taking care of elderly patients I can't imagine someone taking advantage of people in their last year's they are basically helpless.

The lady who was supposed to be 62 looks 82.

So you think your landlady is killing the tennants, and you still stay in her house? Wtf?

Talk about mad cow disease. On a brighter note she won't be collecting anymore social security cheques. The only thing she'll be collecting is dirty laundry 😄

I remember when u was a kid we saw her house

Damn

At 59 , what exactly was she planning to do with the money she was stealing from the people in her boarding house? Was she just storing it all away?

I love the Ad at the end

🙄 For future reference- you don't have "feelings in the back of your head" - you only have gut feelings and your brain interprets the feelings into thought, so that you can react properly, or prepare and plan for that moment. Also, only the truly wise and intelligent humans will cooperate, and be nice, warm and inviting. It's not the investigators they have a problem with. After they found so much evidence, you can't stop the process. You already know damn well you can't change the situation. Go with the flow. That's all she was doing. She knew she had a slight chance to escape. She gambled but knew that was the only slight chance she had she thought. As always, no one can ever truly escape going to prison unless they die. Mexico nowadays wont make a difference, just save you time, while the papers go through. If Mexico knows you're there they will keep you in their prison until America's paperwork goes through for the okay that they can come pick you up. Back then she still wouldn't have lived very long after crossing the border. Even then she would have had to be someone, either government or cartel related. They wont allow random gringos to live the high life.

Betty white needs to play her in the movie.

She’s my all time favorite serial killer

Scary !

This is such a ridiculous documentary. The dramatic re-inactment was terable. AND They did not even mention the account of when the police first interviewed Dorthea!!!!(Which was after the first body was recovered) They let her GO back to her home(after 2.5 hours). AND She was there for the WHOLE NIGHT, following into the next Morning. When she left her house to "meet her Nephew for coffee" or rather to make her Escape,Cabrera was on Duty to watch her soup untill she 'got back'! AND she left with John McCauley,so that would be the reason for his brief arrest and questioning.

The cops find one woman’s remains, then let her go get coffee!! WTH. That would have been a great time to detain her, if they couldn’t arrest her 😒

She's wicked, no conscience, no remorse, nothing at all, she's not even be considered as human..... Bad to the core...!!! 😠😠😠

If I were him, I never let the old lady out of my sight, not even having a coffee with her “relatives”

There’s a video on the house and the couple who owns it now. Check it out!

I guess she thought she was balling with those checks haha

Could you do a review of Juan Corona, the Mexican labor contractor who killed at least 25 migrant workers? It was a real big deal in the Sacto. area at the time, but I’ve never heard it mentioned since. And speaking of terrible things that happened in Sacto. in the 70’s, how about doing a review of the Korean era fighter jet that tried to take off from Sacto. Executive airport, lost altitude and slammed into the Farrell’s Ice Cream shop in the Crossroads shopping center across the street from that airport? Thanks much for all your work!

at that particular time i knew something had gone on here.......pure genius......really?

The acting from this lady is hilarious

Back then I was only 18 years old at the 🕰️ . I never heard of this case until years later.

The love of money is the root of all evil

What an amazing story. Little innocent old woman, and you would imagine her being the victim of the alcoholics she befriended. Great twist to the story. By the way, F Street? What is the meaning behind such a weird street name?

"I can remember getting confronted with 'the boarding house' like rules when I tried to find a place to get off the streets when I was in my twenties..."

The Ghost Adventures Crew did an episode on this murderer at her house

If not for the social worker being sharp and persistent who knows how long Dorothea would've killed and got away with it. None of the investigators or those digging up these bodies sound too smart-no wonder how she just walked away and they didn't know she wasn't coming back? um ok

Dorothea was a HARD ass looking 59 year old lol

Darn good show especially the actors

It's not that she fooled the police and people into believing she was innocent for being an old person. It's that she was a woman, no matter the age. This case was mentioned in the book that I highly recommend: "When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away With Murder" by Patricia Pearson.