James Gallop, a 62-year-old male tenant from Sacramento, California, entered Dorothea Puente’s Victorian boarding house at 1426 F Street while recuperating from recent brain-tumor surgery and a prior heart attack. Sources place his move-in as early as February 1987, though some chronologies list July; all agree he disappeared only weeks later, and investigators believe his killing occurred in mid-1987, close to the June 14 window often cited in summaries. No public record specifies his ethnici
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