Vanessa Richardson

Wednesdays, we unravel the conspiracy or the cult.

And on Fridays, we look at a corresponding crime.

Every week has a theme.

Tech, bioterror, power, paranoia, you name it.

Follow Conspiracy Theories, Cults and Crimes now on your podcast app.

because you're about to dive deeper, get weirder, and go darker than ever before.

We've all been misled by someone we trusted.

Maybe it was our own misguided notions, or maybe they tricked us.

Either way, we can usually dust ourselves off and learn from the mistake.

But when it comes to someone as cold and calculated as Dorothea Puente, the deceit can leave scars that last a lifetime.

Dorothea spent decades perfecting her innocent act.

She convinced everyone around her that she was a respectable, charitable woman.

Some people even viewed her as a savior.

But Dorothea was the opposite.

And when she finally crossed paths with someone she couldn't trick, the world learned she was nothing more than a cold-hearted killer.

The human mind is powerful.

It shapes how we think, feel, love, and hate.

But sometimes it drives people to commit the unthinkable.

This is Killer Minds, a Crime House original.

I'm Vanessa Richardson.