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A mannequin monument for convicted American serial killer Dorothea Puente met the same fate as some of her victims when it was stolen, and later found dismembered.

"Lots of people think it's creepy that we live in this house. I don't think it's creepy. I think it's interesting," Tom Williams said.

Williams and his wife Barbara Holmes now live at the Victorian duplex on F Street in Sacramento where Puente allegedly buried 7 bodies of her 9 victims in the late 1980's. Puente was later convicted of some of those murders and sentenced to life in prison, where she eventually died in 2011.

"She didn't get the death penalty. My understanding is there was a juror that was unwilling to send this little old lady to death," Williams said.

Puente notoriously walked away from the crime scene right in front of detectives as they dug up bones in her front yard. She was photographed leaving the home wearing a bright red coat.

William's mannequin of Dorothea donned a replica of that coat and wielded a shovel. Before it was stolen, it was bolted to the front of the house.

"I went out looking and I could see the body parts…uh, the mannequins parts," Williams said.

The thief was caught on surveillance camera struggling to remove the coat, but eventually ripping the mannequin off the wall and dragging the whole dummy downstairs. The mannequin was later found, missing the coat and wig, with dismembered arms.

The couple is confused as to how such a brazen crime occurred right under their noses. But then again, that has happened at the house before.

"You wonder how all these people in these houses couldn't have seen anything. But who's up at 3 AM? And we didn't hear the mannequin being stolen, so."