Episode 1 Dorothea Puente the Landlady of Death
Episode 1 Dororthea Puente, the Landlady of Death Dorothea Puente (Death House Landlady) The background Dorothea Helen Gray, or better known as Dorothea Puente or the Death House Landlady Was born January 9 th 1929 in Redlands, California To Trudy Mae and Jesse James Gray Dorothea and her siblings had a really rough childhood Both Trudy and Jesse were alcoholics Jesse often would threaten to end his life in front of the kids By 1937, Jesse had passed away from tuberculosis Not long after in 1938 Trudy had lost custody of all the children Which resulted in them being sent to an orphanage During the Puente children’s stay at the orphanage, they experienced sexual assault Trudy passed in a motorcycle accident at the end of 1938 In 1945 at the age of 16, Dorothea married her first husband Fred McFaul, a WW2 soldier, who had just returned from the Pacific Theater Between 1946 and 1948 they had two children together Dorothea had sent one of them to