EXCLUSIVE: The story of California’s most notorious female serial killer, Dorothea Puente, is being turned into a TV series by former Sony Pictures Television Studios President Jeff Frost through his new production company, Bristol Circle Entertainment.
Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum and his writing partner Jane Whitney are co-creators, writers and executive producers on the project, now in development, with Graves creator Joshua Michael Stern serving as co-creator, executive producer and showrunner.
Frost is executive producing. The potential series is based on the life of Puente. In 1980s, she opened a boarding house in Sacramento, inviting the poor, the mentally infirm and homeless to live there, often for free.
Hailed as a generous benefactor, Puente, then in her 50s, was in reality murdering her boarders and continuing to cash their social security checks.
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