David Leath and Ed Dossett had been childhood friends. David Leath married Dossett's widow about six months after Ed Dossett died in what was then ruled an agricultural accident, as they said he was trampled by cattle. The level of morphine in Dossett's body was

Six years after the bodies were discovered in Puente's yard, six jurors traveled to Sacramento to visit the crime scenes they'd only known from pictures or verbal descriptions during the trial, the Sacramento Bee reported.

They sat in the dive bars where she trolled for victims, toured the narrow rooms of the Victorian home where several boarders were given sleeping pill cocktails before they slowly slipped from unconsciousness to death, and walked over the garden where Puente had planted

Investigators eventually located Dolores in California.  She was far from dead and had apparently left the area for a new start in San Diego.  Two weeks later, in Phoenix, Arizona, they located another one of the women that had previously been listed as "missing" from the tavern.

As it turns out, none of the rotting flesh in the alligator pond was found to be human.  In a 1957 interview with the San Antonio Light, Dolores "Buddy" Goodwin stated that Joe, never put no people