The bone garden
Subtitle: the chilling true story of a female serial killer
By: William P. Wood
Publisher: Turner
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nashville, Tennessee; New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781620455227
Subjects: Women serial murderers; Serial murder investigation; Murder; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws; TRUE CRIME / Murder / General; TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
Description: "The chilling true story of a female serial killer;  She looked like everyone's grandmother; white-haired, plump, bespectacled, and kindly. Only Dorothea Montalvo Puente's eyes, black and hard behind her glasses, hinted at the evil that lurked within. She was the rarest of murderers, a female serial killer--probably the most cold-blooded ever recorded in the annals of crime.  This shocking story of the gruesome murder of seven men for profit was written by William Wood, the Deputy D.A. who had earlier prosecuted Puente for drugging and robbing elderly people. He knew intimately the malice that coursed through her veins, and thought he had seen the last of this callous and calculating woman. But her chameleon-like deviousness helped her reappear as a sweet, benevolent landlord--and later allowed her to escape police custody as they stood in her yard surrounded by the gaping graves. The Bone Garden chronicles the discoveries that ignited a media firestorm and transfixed a nation, and put an entirely new face on evil in this country"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.