

She was taking in all these people, treating her neighbors well. “She would donate to local charities and give them bags of clothing.

“Dorothea Puente was loved by her community, and loved by local politicians,” Detective John Cabrera of the Sacramento Police Department says in the documentary. The landlord had a reputation for taking in boarders with mental disabilities or alcoholism and giving them a safe place to stay while they paid her rent out of Social Security checks. Puente’s boarding house came well-recommended, and it seemed as if Bert would be in good hands. “We were impressed, we were thinking, ‘She is nice.’ ” Puente told Judy that she was independently wealthy and simply liked helping people. She had a box of kittens, and she had little bottles of milk that she was feeding them,” Judy says in the documentary.
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Dorothea Puente, who died in 2011, was a serial killer who looked like a grandmother and was a pillar of her community in 1988. In 1988, when Judy, a now-retired social worker, was helping Alvaro “Bert” Gonzales Montoya, a man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, find a home in Sacramento, California, she came upon a boarding house run by Dorothea Puente. From a granny-type who is actually a serial killer to a violent alleged con man who attacked his housemate and left her for dead wrapped in a tarp on a construction site, the show’s dark, disturbing stories will give you a greater appreciation for roomies who commit no greater crime than being sloppy. The new Netflix docuseries “Worst Roommate Ever,” out Tuesday, March 1, covers much more than just bad roomies who blast loud music at odd hours or neglect their share of the household chores.

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