This chapter applies a critical disability studies critique to the confluence of true crime and paranormal media in the United States. I analyse the history and current framing of the Dorothea Puente Murder House, a home located in Sacramento, California, where at least eight people lost their lives to their landlord in pursuit of their social security benefits. Aligned with a crip-of-colour critique of state violence, I restore the context to Puente’s story and her victims, especially one Alvaro ‘Bert’ Gonzalez Montoya. Bert’s relocation to Dorothea’s home is a case study for understanding how state cuts to social programmes, lack of accountable community care, and the limits of good/bad and innocent/guilty binaries ultimately compound the neglect and violence mad disabled people continue to experience today. Finally, this article is an invitation for continued critical disability and mad studies engagement with true crime, paranormal media, and representations of eugenic harm past, present, and future.