Police began looking for a disabled schizophrenic that had been reported missing by his social worker. The police noticed disrupted soil on the ground, searched it, and found the body of Leona Carpenter. After investigating, seven bodies were recovered. Dorothea was tried for nine murders, convicted of three, and sentenced two life sentences.
Initially, Dorothea was not a suspect. She was allowed to leave the ground and have a coffee nearby. Instead, she fled to Los Angeles where she immediately befriended someone who recognized her and called the police.
The trial lasted a year. The prosecutor, O'Mara, called over 130 witnesses. He argued that the defendent would use sleeping pills to get the tenants to sleep, then she'd suffocate them, and hired convicts to dig holes in the backyard for the bodies. The jury deliberated for over a month.
She died on March 27, 2011 in a prison in Chowcilla, California at the age of 82 due to natural causes.
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