Serial killer's home attracts tourists The room where Puente drugged and killed her victims had a bookshelf, a day bed and two carpets, when Cabrera was there during the murder investigation. "I pulled the carpet and saw there were stains," he told the Sacramento Bee. I knew right away it was body fluid. A female mannequin representing Puente stood guard at one corner of a patio deck during the tour. It wore a red coat and held a green shovel. The home's current owners, Barbara Holmes and Tom Williams (pictured above), bought the property in 2010 for $15,000. They completed a renovation after moving in, included the removal of a wall separating the dining room from the kitchen. I love this house. It's happy," Cabrera said of the changes. This veil of darkness has been lifted. Puente was sentenced to two life sentences in 1993 for killing her tenants in order to steal their social security cheques. She died in prison in 2011, aged 82. Sites associated with death and disaster often attract visitors. Other "dark tourism" sites include Prypiat, the village in Ukraine which once housed thousands of workers from the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant; the wreck of the Costa Concordia, which was yesterday finally raised after 18 months; the Auschwitz concentration camp; and districts of New Orleans ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Dark tourism sites around the world Read about other places associated with death and disaster that attract holidaymakers, from the Fukushima nuclear plant to the wreck of the Costa Concordia.