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The 78-year-old female victim, Betty Mae Palmer moved into Dorothea Puente's Sacramento boarding house in the fall of 1986. On August 19 of that year she left for a doctor's appointment and vanished; two months later Puente changed the mailing address on Palmer's Social Security benefits to the F Street residence and began cashing nearly $7,000 in checks using a forged California ID that bore Puente's photo but Palmer's name.

More than two years after the disappearance, police excavat ...
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