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Cold Cases in Sacramento, California

ColdCaseIndex documents 2 cases in Sacramento, California, dated 1977 to 1982. 0 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Roger Kibbe Victims (1977) and the most recent is Dorothea Puente Victims (1982).

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Conviction 1982

Dorothea Puente Victims

Dorothea Puente was a Sacramento boardinghouse operator who poisoned elderly tenants and continued cashing their Social Security checks. Seven bodies were found buried in her yard in 1988.

Sacramento Serial Killer Victims
Conviction 1977

Roger Kibbe Victims

Roger Reece Kibbe, called the I-5 Strangler, was convicted of murdering seven women and girls in Northern California between 1977 and 1987.

Sacramento Serial Killer Victims

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