Vanessa Richardson

She monitored tenants closely to make sure they were taking their medications, prepared home-cooked meals, and made sure everyone's laundry was pressed and their rooms were tidy.

By 1987, when Dorothea was 58 years old, no one had any idea that she'd killed about six people.

Everything was going smoothly for her until one of her tenants, 77-year-old Betty Palmer, started to give her trouble.

Betty started openly questioning why Dorothea was cashing everyone's checks for them.

She even told her bank not to let anyone else cash her checks, which meant Dorothea no longer had access to Betty's money.

And without her money, Dorothea had no use for Betty.

So she used her usual methods to take Betty's life.

However, Dorothea took extra measures when it came to burying her.

Dorothea contacted a man who went by the name Chief, who she occasionally hired for odd jobs.

He was big and strong, the perfect person for the manual labor she needed done.

And he was also an unhoused ex-convict who likely wouldn't go to the police.

She brought him up to Betty's room, where her body was, and asked Chief to dismember her.

Chief did as Dorothea asked.

Then they buried Betty's remains in the backyard.

And that apparently wasn't the end of Dorothea's plan, because soon after, Chief went missing.

And since he was a bit of a drifter, there were no official records of him, which meant the authorities had no way to find him.

Does Chief's potential murder suggest that Dorothea is probably paranoid?

And if so, has she gotten in over her head?

Or does she think her actions are maybe justified, even if they are punishable by law?

At the end of the day, Dorothea's desire for control overpowered everything else.