Phantasmal Crime

A house is an inanimate object. People can fill a home with either positive energy or negative energy. But the house is still just a house. When a murder happens inside a house, the house is innocent. And that statement, The House is Innocent, is posted outside of 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California. This is the Dorothea Puente Murder House, a private home that was once a boarding house run by Puente who made the downtrodden of her community her victims, all while at the same time appearing to be a pillar of the community. She had a handful of victims that she buried in her backyard. Women don't tend to be serial killers, so when a female killer is found to have multiple victims, it gets more than the average amount of attention. The list is a fairly short one and female serial killers seem to be different from their male counterparts. Their crimes are usually not about hunting prey as is the case for many male serial killers. And many of these female killers prefer a hands o

The murder of Mildred Ann Reynolds is a cold case that stretches back more then 60 years. The crime scene was horrific with blood and a burned out car. This young woman had come to a brutal end. Violent murders, especially those that remain unsolved, seem to spawn spirits. The supernatural occurrences that accompany this puzzling story serve to deepen the intrigue. Mildred Ann Newlin, or Annie as her family called her, was born on December 25, 1933 in Lambert, Oklahoma. Lambert started as a settlement that was named for Ambrose Lambert who obtained the land in the Cherokee Outlet Opening land run in 1893. This piece of Oklahoma was between two railroads and was part of wheat-growing country, so it prospered. But this was never a big town and today has less than 10 residents. Ernest and Marie Newlin had moved to Lambert and had a little farm. A photo of a young Annie pictures her in a dress and cowboy boots, bottle feeding a young lamb as she smiles for the camera. People all de