Vanessa Richardson

Once Dorothea was sure he was dead, she wrapped the plastic tarp around him and moved his body to a corner of the room.

But she never told anyone that he'd passed away.

In fact, she did the opposite.

She wrote letters to Everson's children, who were adults, in his handwriting, pretending to be him.

With no one the wiser, Dorothea kept collecting Everson's pension checks.

As far as Dorothea was concerned, her new scheme worked flawlessly.

There was just one problem.

She would have to get rid of Everson's body, and soon, because an odor was forming in her bedroom.

A couple of weeks after killing Everson, Dorothea contacted a handyman she knew named Ismael Flores and asked him to build a pine box for her.

In exchange, she told Ismael he could have Everson's red pickup truck that he no longer wanted.

Ismail agreed and went to Dorothea's boarding house to help her.

But if the handyman was suspicious, he kept his thoughts to himself.

He built the box.

Everson's body was placed inside.

Then they hauled it into the truck and drove onto the highway.

However, as they passed a river, Dorothea suddenly asked Ismail to pull over.

They dumped the box onto the embankment, and once again, Ismail didn't ask any questions.

When they got back to the house, she not only let Ismail drive away in the truck, but she also handed him a wad of cash.

Ismail understood that this was hush money.

Dorothea felt like a true criminal mastermind, and now that she'd perfected her methods, she'd use them again and again.