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Dec 2021
1h 7m

Episode 284: Dorothea Puente Part 2

Morbid Network | Wondery
About this episode
Dorothea is back back back again and she’s eviler than ever. She’s befriending people only to murder them slowly, she’s pretending to fall inlove with a man from her actual prison cell only to murder him and throw him in a river bank. BUT have no fear because this woman does get caught, and she gets got in a pretty poetic way if you ask us!

For anyone with information regarding Michael Vaughan’s disappearance
Call Fruitland PD Dispatch 2086426006
OR
Email: findmichael@fruitland.org

Some fascinating books used:
The Bone Garden by William P. Wood
Buried Beneath The Boarding House by Ryan Green
Corpse Collector by Genova Ortiz

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