Dorothea Puente

She tried to blot out the fetor by dumping bags of lime and gallons of bleach into the yard and spraying her parlor with lemon-scented air freshener when guests dropped in. But no matter what she tried, the stench refused to fade; it clung to the boardinghouse like a curse.

When her boarders started disappearing, a concerned social worker tipped off police, who made a gruesome discovery: Seven bodies buried in the garden.

Not long afterward, Puente appeared in court, accused of murdering her tenants so she could steal their government benefit checks and buy herself luxuries ranging from fancy clothes to a face lift.

This is a story of keeping up appearances. Dorothea Puente tried hard to project a polished exterior with cosmetic surgery and tailored clothes. She also projected herself as a upstanding member of Sacramento society, a small-time socialite who gave to charity and rubbed elbows with second-tier politicians.

No one suspected that the sweet-faced, grandmotherly Puente was systematically drugging and killing her frail boarders and burying their remains in the yard she so lovingly tended. With her careful exterior, she got away with murder for years.

(information taken from crimelibrary.com... Look there for more details)

Serial Killers have been around as far back as I can research. From Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer to Jack the Ripper in 1888 they have been a target of Hollywood, Horror Novelists, and of course, weirdoes like me who want nothing more than to make known, the sick ways people have come up with to kill one another. The biggest thing for me is to stress how important it is to never trust anyone alone with your children. I have had enough experience in my own family to make child abuse in all its various forms very real and very sickening to me. I have seen first hand what these predators have done to my life. And while the Bastard that screwed up three generations of my family was never punished in his lifetime, I want to know that people are aware and cautious of his type so as not to let it happen to your brothers, sisters, or kids. Over time you will notice that I feature a brief history of serial killers and child predators collected from the archives of crimelibrary.com. I’m not a sicko. I am just devoted to not being a victim and letting others know what risks they are taking when they send their child into the bathroom with that stranger that has such an honest look about him.

Fish at his trial

• Albert Fish

Child killer, Cannibal, Sadomasochist, and inspiration for fictitious characters like Hannibal Lecter, who everyone knows and loves, and Dr. Satan, the less elegant psycho from House of 1000 corpses. Albert fish first developed a taste for human flesh with a friend of his that lived in his building in NY. This “friend” talked about a foreign country that was in such crisis and food shortage that the butcher shops began hunting children after dark. Anyone under 12 was not safe in the streets at night. He said that you could walk into a butcher shop and ask for a roast and they would bring you the juicy young leg of a child wrapped in paper and ready to cook. After that, he had come to crave human flesh and so he invited Albert to have dinner with him. He had prepared a young child that had been straggling behind his family at a train station. After that, Albert began hunting children for his own pleasure. Many times he would befriend the family and enter into the house as a frail looking grandfather figure that seemed harmless and always bought presents for the children. One day there was a birthday party in town and the youngest of the children wanted to attend. She was about eight years old and very persistent. Although both parents were tied up with other affairs, Albert volunteered to take her to the party. Her mother agreed and never saw her again. They often received letters from Albert talking about how she was tortured and killed and what she tasted like and what seasonings he used when cooking her. By the time Albert had been caught by police he had killed children counting up to triple digits. He had 30 some-odd needles in his pelvis that he had placed there due to his self-loathing and desire for pain. Apparently these needles were the only the ones he was not able to retrieve after his daily ritual of sticking 5 in pins into the area between his testicles and anus. He said that he frequently did this to his young male victims for days before he actually started to kill them. None of his victims were over the age of twelve. Much more graphic and shocking are the details that I leave out due to sensitive readers. Those of you, who want to know more, visit the link I have for crimelibrary.com. And for God’s sake, keep an eye on your kids!