Everything Worst Roommate Ever Leaves Out About Dorothea Puente
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Worst Roommate Ever.
Netflix's Worst Roommate Ever recounts tales of several nightmare living situations, but what does the docuseries leave out about Dorothea Puente? First released on March 1st, 2022, Worst Roommate Ever is a true-crime documentary streaming series that focuses on the unbelievable stories of nightmare housemates, as told by their surviving victims and the law enforcement officers that caught them. The Netflix and Blumhouse co-production has garnered a mixed reception upon release, with Worst Roommate Ever guilty of glossing over many victims' stories, particularly in the case of Dorothea Puente.
Worst Roommate Ever episode 1, «Call Me Grandma,» kicks the Netflix true-crime series off in harrowing fashion, centering on the case of Dorothea Puente — a convicted serial killer dubbed the "Death House Landlady." Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, in the 1980s, murdering various elderly and mentally disabled tenants to cash their Social Security checks. Puente's sickening scheme is only discovered due to the persistence of a social worker named Judy, who raises the alarm after one of her former patients, Alvaro Gonzales Montoya, disappears without a trace while under Puente's care.
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Yet despite Worst Roommate Ever presenting a shocking tableau of the Death House Landlady's crimes, the Netflix documentary is only the tip of the iceberg for Dorothea Puente's long and tragic story. From her four failed marriages to Puente's unconfirmed murders, Worst Roommate Ever's Dorothea Puente cuts a harrowing figure in the true-crime landscape. Here's everything Worst Roommate Ever leaves out about Dorothea
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