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A sly sign warns visitors at the home of Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday, October 25, 2012. The couple lives in the house that was once owned by the infamous serial murderer Dorothea Puente. Puente ran the house as a boarding house for seniors, several of whom she killed and buried in the backyard of the residence in the late 1980s. -
A plexiglas panel in the backyard deck reveals a hand mosaic at the home of Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
A sly sign warns visitors at the home of Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Barbara Holmes enters her home past a mannequin dressed as Dorothea Puente at her home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
A disassembled mannequin sits on the floor of Barbara Holmes and her husband Tom Williams at their home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes have an eclectic collection of artwork at their home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday, October 25, 2012. These face masks are of famous Hollywood actors including Sean Connery (bottom.) -
Tom Williams stands in his bedroom at his home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. This room is believed to be where Puente prepared bodies for burial. -
Tom Williams enters the kitchen at his home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Barbara Holmes, left, and her husband Tom Williams at their home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Tom Williams stands at the bottom of staircase at his home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
A pair of books about the Dorothea Puente case sit on a bookshelf at the home of Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Barbara Holmes, left, her mother Peggy Holmes and her husband Tom Williams at their home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday. -
Tom Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes stand in their kitchen near a whimsical knife holder at their home on F Street in Sacramento on Thursday.
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