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The Grandmother Opened Up Her Home to the Homeless, Then Her Tenants Started Disappearing One After The Other
The tragic case of Dorothea Puente
Dorothea was a kindhearted sweet grandmother.
She took in the homeless, alcoholics, and the sick as her tenants.
Dorothea stated,
“The only time the tenants were in good health was when they stayed at my home…I made them change their clothes every day, take a bath every day and eat three meals a day… When they came to me, they were so sick, they weren’t expected to live.”
But a strange thing happened.
Her tenants started disappearing one after the other.
The Homeless People Crisis in California
The number of homeless people in Sacramento, California, was going up in the 80s.
A woman named Judy had an outreach program to help alcoholics, the mentally impaired, and homeless people.
One of Judy’s clients, a fifty-one-year-old man named Alvaro Montoya, also known as Bert, wanted a home. Judy found Bert a place downtown.
Dorothea Puente owned the place.
