Crime - Female Murderers

Dorothea Helen Puente (January 9, 1929 -- March 27, 2011) was a convicted American serial killer. In the 1980s, Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and cashed the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled boarders. Those who complained were killed and buried in her yard.Alvin Howard Neelley, Jr. (1953--2005) and Judith Ann Adams Neelley (born 1964) are an American couple responsible for two torture murders. They each were convicted of the kidnappings and murders of Lisa Ann Millican and Janice Chatman. Judy Neelley was sentenced to death by the state of Alabama in 1983, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment in 1999. She is serving her sentence at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. Alvin Neelley was serving a life sentence at the Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia at the time of his death in 2005.Elisabeth Anne Betty Broderick (born November 7, 1947) is an American former suburban housewife convicted of the November 5, 1989 murders of her former husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his second wife, Linda Kolkena. After a second trial, she was convicted on December 11, 1991 of two counts of second-degree murder, and later sentenced to 32 years to life in prison. She was eager to get her story out and played it out that she was a feminist. There is now a Lifetime original movie of the murder.