Mom of 15, who faked death after allegedly boiling newborn puppies, found alive behind false wall

A New Mexico mother of 15 who faked her demise after defying probation restraints in a horrific little one abuse case — together with allegations she boiled new child puppies in entrance of her youngsters — was discovered alive in a false wall at her husband’s Colorado trailer.

Martha Crouch, 58, was discovered in Huerfano County, Colo., almost 250 miles east of her Aztec house.

She was busted after Colorado police responded to stories of a person struggling a medical emergency in a yard exterior a trailer Aug. 17.

When cops arrived, they discovered Crouch’s husband, Timothy, 62, useless on the garden, in line with KRDO.

When certainly one of his grownup daughters discovered of the demise, she advised authorities there have been siblings within the trailer being abused and urged them to return.

Colorado police then linked Crouch to his spouse, whom they discovered had an arrest warrant in New Mexico courting again to 2021 for violating probation after which vanishing.

That probation stemmed from horrific little one and animal abuse expenses, for which she pleaded responsible in 2019 earlier than arriving at a plea deal two years in a while one felony cost.

The mother was accused by a few of her youngsters of beating them with kitchen instruments, chaining one to a bedpost to pressure her to drop extra pounds, and fatally taking pictures certainly one of their canines as punishment. She additionally allegedly pressured the children to observe as she fatally boiled 4 new child puppies within the kitchen.

One in every of her daughters additionally alleged that after changing into pregnant at 14, the mother beat her so severely that she miscarried.

The husband, in the meantime, confronted expenses of hiding his spouse and 4 of his youngsters from the New Mexico Youngsters, Youth and Households Division throughout its investigation of alleged abuse, in line with the Farmington Daily Times.

When police returned to the trailer with a warrant, they wee met by one of many Crouch youngsters, who stated their mother had died years earlier than, and {that a} teenage sister had gone lacking three years prior.

Police then searched the trailer — and performing on a tip from a neighbor — discovered a false wall the place Martha Crouch was hiding alongside the supposed lacking 14-year-old daughter.

The mother was arrested on an impressive warrant, and in addition hit with new misdemeanor little one abuse expenses, and obstructing police throughout their investigation.

She is being held in a Colorado jail on $5,000 bond.