Buried Beneath the Boarding House: A Shocking True Story of Deception, Exploitation and Murder (True Crime) by Ryan Green

Author:Ryan Green [Green, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryan Green Publishing
Published: 2019-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

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Despite all of the prohibitions against Dorothea operating a boarding house or caring for the elderly again, the needs of the state soon outweighed the rule of law. Social workers had already been quietly depositing homeless, addicted and otherwise hopeless cases on Dorothea from the moment that her doors reopened, and things only got busier once she had the whole operation up and running. The new boarding house was considerably smaller than the first, but the turnover was considerably higher, and given that Dorothea’s main requirement from her tenants was for them to stay just long enough for her to redirect their benefits payments to her address, this worked out nicely for her designs. She was the last stop for people on the lowest rung of society, the last hint of a safety net before the homeless vanished entirely, never to return, and she used that position to prey on them. More than $5,000 was soon being deposited into her account each month in the form of dozens of different cheques, and she could easily have slipped back into high society if it weren’t for the ongoing stigma attached to her name.

Dorothea began to schedule the absences of her residents. Alcoholics were the most common addicts in her care, and for the vast majority of them, recovery wasn’t even a consideration. All of the mail to the house was intercepted by Dorothea before most of her guests had even woken from their stupor. She extracted any money or cheques from the post and handed out a stipend to her residents. It was through this money that she was able to control when they would next be arrested. All that she had to do to ensure that a drunk and disorderly charge stuck to one of her residents was to pay them out just enough so their latest binge would push them over the edge into belligerence.

She had the distance to the local bars and the drinking speed of her residents worked out. After she’d sent them off with cash in their pockets, it was a simple matter to call in an anonymous tip to the police about their behaviour, and like clockwork, they’d be picked up and would face 30 days of jail time — 30 days when Dorothea could rent out their room to somebody else while still collecting the jailed resident’s benefit payments. She was careful not to have the same residents in constant trouble, but looking at it from the perspective of a criminal enterprise, it’s quite obvious that she was running through a rotation based on how regularly each individual was up in front of a judge, but at the time, the government workers who were meant to be overseeing the care of her residents considered it to be a minor miracle that she kept them out of trouble for as long as she did.

Despite this constant turnover of bodies, Dorothea never managed to develop a bad reputation among the social workers that she encountered.

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