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Journalists from KTXL FOX40 News in Sacramento dig deeper into some of California's infamous crimes serial killers and cold cases. Through in-depth interviews with the victims, their families and the original investigators you get a glimpse into the terror, pain and heartbreak these people caused.
At Dorothea Puente's house, a polite request to dig is enough to make your stomach drop.
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Kuz tests Puente's prison stories as her practiced charm keeps the danger unsettlingly close.
Dorothea Puente - The Shadow Keeper centers on the gap between Puente's gentle public image and the predator Kuz came to recognize. The episode moves through her harsh childhood, the defense's 1993 effort to frame that history sympathetically, and Kuz's repeated prison visits,…
A grandmotherly facade, a vanished suspect, and a Sacramento garden with seven people buried in it.
Dorothea Puente's Sacramento home sits at the center of a case shaped by unnerving contrast: a quiet address, a grandmotherly presence, and the remains of seven people found in the garden.
A Sacramento boarding house anchors a true-crime story about appearances, suspicion, and a dirt yard.
EXPOSED: The Shadow Keeper frames the Sacramento boarding house at 1426 F Street as a place built on appearances: a tree-lined Victorian with flowers, greenery, shrubs, and spots where residents could sit, set against accounts of murder and a woman described as a hardened…
Four Sister Survivors face the courtroom chapter of the East Area Rapist case.
EXPOSED centers on the women forever tied to the East Area Rapist: Jane Carson Sandler, Debbie Domingo, Margaret Wardlow, and Michelle Cruz, the Sister Survivors.
A cold case expands through the Maggiore investigation and one frightening car-window encounter.
Exposed treats "a major break" as less of a clean turning point than a widening field of suspicion, following how a cold case drew investigators back toward earlier crimes.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
Exposed: The Shadow Keeper traces Dorothea Puente's path from orphanages and prostitution to Sacramento boarding houses where she cared for vulnerable tenants.
Fox 40's Exposed: The Shadow Keeper, with host Allie Wolfe, follows Dorothea Puente and the 1988 discovery of seven bodies buried at 1426 F Street in Sacramento.
Exposed: The Shadow Keeper centers on Dorothea Puente and the Sacramento boarding house at 1426 F Street, where Tom Williams and Barbara Holmes have lived since 2010.
Exposed: The East Area Rapist follows Jane Carson Sandler, Debbie Domingo, Margaret Wardlow, and Michelle Cruz as they respond to Joseph DeAngelo's arrest and DNA match.
Paul Holes found three Contra Costa County DNA samples, then matched them to four Orange County murder cases in March 2001.
A deep dive into the East Area Rapist's 1976 crime spree in Sacramento, featuring interviews and atmospheric description.