The State : 7th Body From Yard Identified

Authorities have identified the body of a woman unearthed with six others last November from the yard of the Sacramento boardinghouse run by Dorothea Montalvo Puente. The Sacramento County coroner’s office identified the last of seven corpses as that of Betty Mae Palmer, 80, who apparently went to Sacramento from the Redding area in 1986. Officers said that they did not know when when was last seen alive but that she moved into the Victorian house sometime in 1986. Coroner’s spokesman Bob Bowers said the body was identified through comparisons of medical X-rays. Puente has been charged with murdering another tenant, Alvaro (Bert) Montoya.