The Bone Garden Author:Wood Dorothea Puente was that rarest of murderers: a female serial killer. On a fall day in l988, police in Sacramento, California began digging up the backyard of a quaint Victorial boardinghouse run by Puente. Before the weekend was over, the police had unearthed seven badly decomposed bodies. This shocking story of murder for profit was written... more » by William Wood, the Deputy D.A. who had earlier prosecuted Puente for drugging and robbing elderly people.« less