Yahoo Lifestyle Series About Serial Killer Dorothea Puente Co-Created By Michael Rosenbaum In Works At Jeff Frost’s Bristol Circle Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: The story of California’s most notorious female serial killer, Dorothea Puente, is being turned into a TV series by former Sony Pictures Television Studios President Jeff Frost through his new production company, Bristol Circle Entertainment.
Smallville alum Michael Rosenbaum and his writing partner Jane Whitney are co-creators, writers and executive producers on the project, now in development, with Graves creator Joshua Michael Stern serving as co-creator, executive producer and showrunner. Frost is executive producing.
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The potential series is based on the life of Puente. In 1980s, she opened a boarding house in Sacramento, inviting the poor, the mentally infirm and homeless to live there, often for free. Hailed as a generous benefactor, Puente, then in her 50s, was in reality murdering her boarders and continuing to cash their social security checks. After evading suspicion for years, in part because of her disarming, matronly demeanor, Puente was ultimately arrested. After a wild trial, she was convicted for three of the murders and spent her last years in prison.
Frost, who stepped down as President of SPT Studios in 2022, is also an executive producer on Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan’s untitled new series for Apple TV + and SPT, which has a two-season order.
Rosenbaum is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in Smallville and Martinex in the Guardian of the Galaxy franchise. He is repped by Buchwald and attorney Todd Rubenstein.
Stern, whose credits also include the movies Jobs and Swing Vote, is repped by Innovative Artists and attormey Darren Trattner.
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