The Old Serial Killer LandLady: Dorothea Helen Puente. Gracelyn Tomblin Department of Social Science HSP3UR: Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology and Sociology Mrs. Anastasia Chiasson April 26, 2024 Abstract This paper's analysis is based on the elderly landlady, Dorothea Helen Puente, who was found to be a serial killer of nine different victims. This essay will include Dorothea’s background, which will consist of her crimes, early life traumas, and her life as an adult. Her behaviorism and experiences will also be compared and contrasted with psychological and sociological theories varying from Mary Ainsworth’s attachment style theory, Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development, Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment, …show more content…
Despite her efforts, she was eventually caught on November 7, 1988, due to a former resident, John Sharp who kept quiet about the disappearance of a tenant named Montoya. After he had told his story, the detective was permitted to dig areas in her backyard that seemed to have recently been disturbed. After 30 minutes of digging, they had finally found the first body, but Dorothea had slipped away from the police and issued her escape, Wilson, 1990. Pg. 11-12. See also http://www.pg.org/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/pg/p Fortunately, nine days later, Charles Willgues and Gene Silver of CBS alerted the police of Dorothea’s whereabouts. Finally, on November 16, 1988, Dorothea Helen Puente was arrested for the 9 murders of the elderly, homeless, and disabled. She was sentenced to life without parole, Wilson, 1993. Pg. 9: the victims and families could be safe knowing she could never harm an innocent ever again. Theories The modus operandi and the signature are two types of observations investigated to characterize …show more content…
Collinshaw R., Kritzer S., Warecki P. (2011). Social Science An Introduction. Mc-Graw-Hill Ryerson Limited. This reference was used to find information on theories that connected to Dorothea’s case This textbook is partially biased and it has opinions by the authors, however, it includes the primary social scientist’s studies and experiments that are peer-edited [4] Kulcyzk, D. (2013). California Fruits, Flakes, Nuts: True Tales of California’s Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps. Linden Publishing. This reference was used to find information on Dorothea’s crimes, specifically her brothel operation arrest This book is partially biased as the author gives his opinions on the different
Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 14th Edition William A. Havilland; Harald E. L. Prins; Bunny McBride; Dana Walrath Published by Wadsworth, Cengage Learning (2014)
Arenson, Lauren J., and Jennifer Miller-Thayer. Cultures of the United States. Plymouth, MI: Hayden-McNeil Pub., 2009. Print.
A. Aileen Wuornos was born to a teenage couple. Her father was arrested for child molestation and hung himself in jail. Her mother abandoned her, and the maternal grandparents assumed guardianship. Most of western culture can agree the abuse of a child is a deviant act. In the case of Aileen, what social factors and “social controls” impeded the recognition of such deviant behavior?
When viewed from a strictly medical, psychological aspect, Andrea Yates medical history indicates that after the birth of her first child, she began to suffer from various forms of depression and suicide attempts. If one only examines the paper trail and doesn’t think beyond what the medical history does or does not indicate, then perhaps, Andrea would be innocent by reason of mental insanity as the 2006 acquittal suggest. However, when viewed form a legal aspect there are several inconstancies that challenge if this former nurse was insane or if she in fact premeditated the murder of her children as well as her acquittal.
Culture. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: St. James Press, 2013. 53. Gale
In the book titled Around the World in 30 Years, Barbara Gallatin Anderson’s makes a precise and convincing argument regarding the acts of being a cultural anthropologist. Her humor, attention to detail, and familiar analogies really allow for a wholesome and educating experience for the reader. Her credible sources and uniform writing structure benefits the information. Simply, the book represents an insider’s look into the life of a cultural anthropologist who is getting the insider’s look to the lives of everybody
“Well, Alice, my father said, if it had to happen to one of you, I’m glad it was you and not your sister” (57). Even though Alice was the victim of the horrid crime, she had to stabilize her own emotions, so that she could help her sister cope with this tragedy. Throughout Alice’s childhood, Jane struggled with alcoholism and panic attacks. “I wished my mother were normal, like other moms, smiling and caring, seemingly, only for her family” (37).
...en. Probably the most striking commonality is how women relate through those by which they are haunted: just as Marisa recalls her cousin Norma who was committed to a mental hospital, Alejandro's death seriously impacts Amalia; Mrs. Peters recalls her dead baby in an effort to relate to Mrs. Wright, and Mrs. Hale remembers the woman Mrs. Wright was before her marriage. Both Glaspell and Moraga explore the universal theme of isolation and how relationships can create, in the case of Mrs. Wright, or diminish it, as with Marisa and Amalia.
Popick, Jacqui. "Native American Women, Past, Present and Future." Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal 1.1 (2006). Web. 3 Mar. 2011. .
In chronicling the biopsychosocial issues that are part of our society and which are characteristic of the varied life patterns in our modern day society, we analyze the life of a subject who is female and is a Native American. Born and raised in America, the subject is black and is 44 years of age. She has four siblings, including three brothers and a sister. She has no religious affiliation and has been working for the last twelve years. She is presently a retired member of the Department of Conservation (DOC).
Schultz, Emily A. & Lavenda, Robert H. 2005, Cultural Anthropology, 6th edn, Oxford University Press, New York, Chapter 3: Fieldwork.
Margaret Mead is one of the most influential anthropologists to modern society due to her anthropological research and her outspoken demeanor on any topic. Mead’s research was groundbreaking in an era where places like Samoa were still seen as the paradise away from the civilized world. Her efforts to transform the unknown societies of the Samoans into visual imagery for the Western world were successful and resulted in the book, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization, originally published in 1928. This book made the exotic and misunderstood cultures of the Samoans tangible for the general population. Mead’s special effort to debunk the myth of unavoidable childish adolescence was paramount in her work in Samoa, specifically adolescent females. Margaret Mead established in her work, Coming of Age in Samoa, that adolescence does not need to be the unwieldy and uncomfortable period in life that Western culture portrayed as “stormily” (Mead 5).
Many authors have different types of writing and different ways of telling the story regardless of whether it is a horror type of story, a romantic type of story or even a comedy type of story. However, in this story by Susan Glaspell, it is a fiction type story which is about Mrs. Wright who seems to have lost control of her emotions and snaps. She kills her abusive husband which is found dead with a rope around his neck while she was asleep, but nobody knows her motive of killing him. The inequality between Mrs. Wright and Mr. Wright, which is based in gender, affects Mrs. Wright’s sense of enjoyment of life, which explains Mrs. Wright’s motive for the murder. Factors like, loneliness, depression, and lack of freedom justifies how Mrs. Wright sense of enjoyment of life was negatively affected and they are the reason for Mrs. Wright to murder her husband.
The essay Paralyzed Witnesses: The Murder They Heard was written by Stanley Milgram and Paul Hollander. In this essay, the authors describe in detail the responses of the witnesses during the murder of Kitty Genovese and the impact this case has of the ability for an individual to help people during a time of distress. The main idea of this essay was to analyze the reasons why the witnesses did not help during the murder. The internal and external conflicts were the main factors that influenced the witnesses did not help Genovese during her time of need.
Manning, R., Levine, M., & Collins, A. (2007). The Kitty Genovese Murder and the Social Psychology of Helping: The parable of the 38 witnesses. American Psychologist, 62 (6), 555-562.