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Recounts the story of Dorothea Puente, a grandmotherly Sacramento woman who gained a reputation as a Good Samaritan by running a boarding house for the indigent and infirm, only to be convicted of murdering them.
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2 editions- Other · English · 1995Avon Books (Mm) · 9780380711888
- Other · English · 1994W. Morrow and Co. · 415 pages · 9780688097042
MurderPeople with social disabilitiesCrimes againstCase studiesWelfare recipientsFiction, generalMurder, california