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Sacramento County) Case Files for the People V http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8b85fn5 Online items available Guide to the California Superior Court (Sacramento County) case files for The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente (criminal case #18056) CNTY0004 Collection processed and finding aid written by Kim Hayden Center for Sacramento History 2018 CNTY0004 1 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History Title: California Superior Court (Sacramento County) case files for The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente (criminal case #18056) Identifier/Call Number: CNTY0004 Physical Description: 17.354 Linear Feet(22 boxes: 8 record cartons, 3 manuscript boxes, 7 poster rolls, 2 newspaper boxes, 1 oversize flat box, 1 video box. Date (inclusive): 1938-2001 Date (bulk): 1982-1992 Abstract: The collection is made up of exhibits and evidence from Sacramento County Superior Court criminal case #18056, The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente. Puente stood trial for the murders of her boyfriend and eight of her Sacramento boarding house tenants between 1982 and 1988 in order to collect their government benefit checks. All but two of those she murdered were found buried in the yard of her rented boarding house at 1426 F Street in Sacramento. Preliminary hearings began in 1990, and the trial and sentencing took place in 1993. Material covers the entirety of the trial, including evidence collected during the investigation, trial exhibits, photographs and video footage of the crime scene, video footage and transcripts of suspect and witness interrogations, and appeals records. Puente was sentenced to life in prison without parole and died at age 82 in 2011 at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. Immediate Source of Acquisition Sacramento County Superior Court (accession number 2014/002) Conditions Governing Access The collection is open for research. It has a number of access restrictions due to personally identifiable information (this includes address, phone number, driver's license number), social security numbers, financial records, medical records, and graphic photos and video. See below for restrictions: • Sealed records: no access, no reproductions • Personally identifiable information of deceased persons: no restrictions to access • Personally identifiable information of deceased persons: redact PII before access • Medical/psychiatric records of deceased or living persons: redact before access • Social security numbers of deceased or living persons: redact before access • Financial records of deceased or living persons: redact before access • Photos/videos made by or for the coroner showing dead bodies or body parts: viewable in-house only, no reproductions • Photos/videos not made by or for the coroner showing dead bodies or body parts: no restrictions to access Conditions Governing Use All requests to publish or quote from collections held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted in writing to [email protected]. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron. No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records. Photos/videos made by or for the coroner showing dead bodies or body parts are viewable in-house only and cannot be reproduced. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], CNTY0004, California Superior Court (Sacramento County) case files for The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente (criminal case #18056), Center for Sacramento History. Separated Materials Artifacts have been separated from the archival material. These include pill vials, a shovel, two hoes, two rakes, a garden trowel, a knife, a makeup compact, and a wallet. Biographical / Historical Sacramento County Superior Court criminal case #18056, The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente, is the murder trial of Sacramento, California, serial killer Dorothea Puente. Preliminary hearings began in 1990, and the trial and sentencing took place in 1993. Puente was accused of murdering nine people between 1982 and 1988 and cashing their government support checks. Victims included Puente's boyfriend Everson Gillmouth, 77, and eight tenants who lived at the boarding house she operated at 1426 F Street in Sacramento: Ruth Munroe, 61; Leona Carpenter, 78; Alvaro "Bert/Alberto" Gonzales Montoya, 51; Dorothy Miller, 64; Benjamin Fink, 55; James Gallop, 62; Vera Faye Martin, 64; and Betty Palmer, 78. The first CNTY0004 2 victim, Munroe, died at 1426 F Street in 1982, but her death was deemed a suicide by drug overdose, although her family suspected Puente was behind her death and pressed for further investigation. Gillmouth's body was found in January 1986 in a wooden box on the bank of the Sacramento River near Verona, just north of Sacramento. The rest of the victims were found buried in Puente's backyard in November 1988 during a police investigation. Puente had a long and varied criminal history, including forgery and fraud, that started when she was a young woman. She also had a history of working in caregiving roles with vulnerable and disadvantaged populations who did not have a strong family or social support network, like the elderly, the homeless, and people with addiction and mental health problems. In the 1970s, she ran a boarding house for the elderly and needy at 2100 F Street in Sacramento, and in 1978 she was arrested and put on five years' probation for forging her tenants' signatures on their benefits checks. One of her probation stipulations was that she could not operate a boarding house, so Puente instead began working as an in-home caregiver. In 1982 she was convicted of robbery and administering stupefying drugs to commit robbery, stemming from accusations of drugging and stealing from her clients and a man she met in a bar. She was sentenced to prison for five years, serving three with two years' credit for good behavior. Puente was released on parole in September 1985 with the stipulation that she could not run a boarding house, care for the elderly, or handle other people's government support checks. While in prison, Puente began corresponding with Gillmouth, and the two got together upon her release, opening a joint bank account. Not long after her release, Puente killed Gillmouth and continued cashing his support checks, while writing letters to his friends and family under the guise that he was still alive. Puente hired local handyman Ismael Florez to do some work at her house and build a lidded box about the size of a coffin. Part of his promised payment was Gillmouth's truck, which Puente said belonged to her boyfriend who was away in Los Angeles and no longer wanted it. A few days after building the box, Florez returned to the house to find the lid nailed shut. Puente asked him to help her transport it to a storage unit north of town, but on the way, she suggested they dump it by the river instead. The next month, in January 1986, a fisherman found the box, which contained Gillmouth's remains. His remains were not identified until early 1989, after the bodies were found in Puente's yard and she was linked through witnesses to Gillmouth's death. Florez maintained that he was unaware a body was in the box when he helped transport and dump it. Also upon her 1985 release from prison, Puente began operating the boarding house at 1426 F Street, against her parole stipulations. She again took in mostly the elderly and people with mental illness or substance abuse problems, many of whom were in and out of homelessness. Puente arranged to be signors on their government support checks, giving the tenants a small stipend then depositing the rest into her own accounts or joint accounts, which she justified as payment for room, board, and other expenses. At some point, she began killing some of her tenants by drugging them with prescription medications she got from several doctors. She would keep their bodies in an upstairs room in the house and then, later, bury them in her yard; it is suspected that she had her mentally disabled tenant Alvaro "Bert" Montoya help her with the burials. After their deaths, she continued to collect their government support checks. Suspicions were raised against Puente starting in mid-1988, when Brenda Trujillo, a woman who had been in prison with Puente and had briefly lived at 1426 F Street, complained to police that Puente had drugged her and cashed her checks — some reports also say she told police Puente had buried tenants in the backyard. In late 1988, Montoya's social worker Judy Moise became concerned when she could not get a hold of him, and after talking to Puente, who gave conflicting stories about his whereabouts, she filed a missing person's report, which was the impetus for the investigation at the Puente house. On November 11, Sacramento Police Detective John Cabrera and other officers arrived to question Puente and search the house, and upon finding nothing suspicious, they asked to dig in the backyard. Puente consented to the dig, and the detectives soon turned up the remains of tenant Leona Carpenter. As digging continued, Puente was questioned then released due to insufficient evidence to hold her. She fled to Los Angeles, where she was picked up by police four days later after a man she met in a bar turned her in. By that time, police had recovered the bodies of seven of Puente's tenants, including Montoya. After questioning Florez, Puente was linked to Gillmouth's death. Investigators also began to suspect Puente in the 1982 death of Ruth Munroe. In all, Puente was charged with nine murders: the seven tenants found buried in her yard, Gillmouth, and Munroe. Preliminary hearings began in April 1990, and in August she pled not guilty to the charges.
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