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Friday, November 18, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Landlady admits she cashed checks, denies killing tenants
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A landlady suspected of killing seven elderly tenants at her boardinghouse to collect their Social Security money said yesterday she had cashed some checks but was no killer.
Dorothea Montalvo Puente, who vanished Saturday after police unearthed the first body buried in her burial pit at a vankee yesterday but did not enter a plaza.
Clad in an orange jail jumpsuit, Puente listened quietly as the charge of one murder count was read and nodded her head to indicate she wanted a public defender to represent her.
"I have not killed anyone. I told you that. I have not killed anyone. The checks I cashed, yes," Puente told KCRA-TV reporter Mike Boyd.
Assistant District Attorney Dan Kinter said additional murder charges and special circumstances would be filed. Special circumstances may the penalty could be increased if prison without possibility of parole.
Boyd said he didn't ask specific questions about the murders, but only talked with Puente about general subjects.
Puente was arrested after CBS television told Los Angeles police that a viewer called to report meeting her in a downtown bar.
The case was continued until Dec. 15 and she was ordered held in jail without bail.
Puente, 59, was arrested at a downtown Los Angeles motel late Wednesday after a pensioner she had met touched in a bar became suspicious.
MOSCOW — A disease that caused 127 children in a Ukrainian town to lose their hair has been traced to high doses of thallium, a toxic metal probably carried by acid rain. a newsreader reported yesterday
Assistant public defenders Kevin Clymo and Peter Vlautin, surrounded by dozens of reporters outside the courtroom, questioned the propriety of an interview Puente gave KCRA-TV while the jet leased by the station was taking her and police back to Sacramento early yesterday.
"Since there are no sources of the discharge of thallium into the environment in Chernovitsy and its environs, a conclusion was drawn that the chemical nature of thallium is unknown to the Communist报纸 daily newspaper, Pravda said."
Despite the conclusion, authorities are continuing to investigate other possible causes for the disease, it repeats.
A criminal investigation has been initiated, Pravda said, indicating that if individuals were found responsible for thallium poisoning, they may face criminal charges.
Ten industrial operations have been suspended near Chernovsky, on the Soviet border with Romania, Pacific Ocean.
The Associated Press
reported that the number of cases of the disease continues to grow," it said.
"However, despite the measures being taken, it is
Soviet children bald from toxic metal
The disease was first reported in the Soviet media Nov. 6. On Wednesday, the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta said the cause had been traced to thallium but did not name the source.
Thallium is a poisonous metathetic element that reacts violently in compounds in photometric cells or in pesticides.
Chernovytse is far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the areas downwind of it that suffered from radiation contamination after a 1986 accident.
Medical experts called in for the investigation were studying the "strange selectivity of the ailment which affected mainly weakened children and adolescents with blue eyes and blond hair." Prayda said.
Pravda said that the children not only lost their hair but that many experienced mild neurological disorders.
The children affected ranged in age from 5½ months to 14 years.
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