'She served as a living illustration of the notion that one cannot judge a book by its cover.'
Police escort Dorothea Puente after her arrest in November 1988 for murdering multiple tenants at her Sacramento boarding house.Sacramento police were no stranger to the tidy Victorian at 1426 F Street. As they went up the steps of the blue-green home on Nov. 11, 1988, a miniature windmill turned lazily in the neat, flower-filled front yard and birds chirped from a decorative wishing well.
They dug, and within minutes, they were met by a stomach-churning find: the decomposing body of a woman. In the flurry of calling detectives and forensic teams, Puente, dressed in a long, red coat and carrying a bright pink umbrella, slipped out. "She could pass for anyone she wanted to be by the way she acted. Riscile? That was a name she made up, I think,” McFaul said in 1988. “I don't know where she'd come up with this s—t, out of a clear blue sky."
In 1968, she married Roberto Jose Puente, whose name she would keep longer than the marriage. Sixteen months after the wedding, the relationship was over. Now in her 40s, Puente transformed her appearance. She’d always been known for her brassy, sexy makeup and dress, but suddenly she began wearing baggy, modest clothes and stopped dying her hair. She told new acquaintances she was a devoted Christian and loved serving her community in Sacramento by opening up her lovely home on F Street.
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