Bertha Martinez Makes Her Kids Change Color
January 22, 2008 by Morbid
FONTANA - Bertha Martinez, 35, has been arrested on suspicion of homicide and booked her into West Valley Detention Center without bail. The victims are her husband Marcelo Martinez, 58, and their two daughters Amy, 7, and 8-month-old Yomay. A motive in the killing was not known, but police said the couple had a troubled relationship. They had been separated and had gotten back together a year ago. The husband suffered blunt force trauma to his head and the girls were found in bed, covered in sheets.
The crime was discovered about 10 a.m. after Martinez went to a friend’s house and stated that she might have done something bad and that her kids were purple from the neck up. The children were victims of strangulation or suffocation.
1:44 am on January 22nd, 2008
Geez, I clicked on the news page and her face pops up…..made me jump. She looks so much older than 35. Scary looking lady.
6:17 am on January 22nd, 2008
I’m all, she’s *younger* than I am? Not by much, but holy cats. And she “might have” done something bad? Sounds like a setup for an insanity plea to me.
Those poor babies.
8:02 am on January 22nd, 2008
“Might have” done “something bad”. Gee, Bertha, ya think?
The murders apparently didn’t fix whatever she was pissed off about.
8:23 am on January 22nd, 2008
damn she looks evil. those poor kids.
9:32 am on January 22nd, 2008
Her husband was 23 years older than her. But I bet they looked the same age. *shudder*
What the hell could they have been fighting about to make her kill her kids too?
Who wants to make a bet that alcohol was involved…probably even alcohol addiction. She LOOKS like a heavy drinker.
9:34 am on January 22nd, 2008
Very scary lookin’ woman. Another case of a mother gone bad. If she was mad at her husband, fine. But the babies? Come on. At least fricken give them a chance at life. There are so many people that would love to raise those babies.
9:42 am on January 22nd, 2008
I read somewhere this morning, where the husband was disabled. Bad back and such. She was out of work and their house was going to be sold, I believe, and they had to move. Can’t see how that would set her off to kill her family, but just passing on what I read. Money problems can cause an awful lot of tension in a family. So who knows?
9:46 am on January 22nd, 2008
John List was in dire financial straights when he killed his family. He took off and lived for years under AKAs, though. This lady told on herself.
10:51 am on January 22nd, 2008
Well, at least she isn’t pulling that “poor me, why be mean to me” face that female mug shots so often display. And what is she wearing? Some kind of housecoat? Armor?
11:01 am on January 22nd, 2008
I was looking at that,too. I think its a jacket over a v-neck shirt, but the jacket has some weird epaulets on it.
11:12 am on January 22nd, 2008
you are right he does look like a heavy drinker………..oh wait, are you saying that he is a girl?
11:14 am on January 22nd, 2008
I’m trying to figure out if it’s some beautiful ethnic quilting and embroidery or just plain dirty. Hard to tell with vintage stuff, but is this vintage? Looks as if the fusible interfacing has gone bad on the jacket edges. Well, we can write and ask her when she’s settled in a prison. I’ll bet she probably just tossed on whatever before going to ask someone if having purple-faced children is bad.
2:49 pm on January 22nd, 2008
Inuit Battle Smock.
7:17 pm on January 22nd, 2008
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything. I’d have ruint the keyboard.
12:59 am on January 23rd, 2008
OMG, it’s dangerous to laugh this hard. Be careful, Old Man Metal, or you’ll be responsible for the first internet-laughing death.
12:48 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Lol… wonder if that story would make this site. I better get my excuses ready and make me a white trash myspace.
1:15 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Just be sure to pose in a trashy room by some trashy mattresses in a trashy pose that looks like you are about to shit on the trashy linoleum floor. And pucker up.
1:54 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Linoleum… gotta get linoleum… remember to get linoleum
2:21 pm on January 23rd, 2008
LOL Wrybread – too funny.
3:11 pm on January 23rd, 2008
This is rather like mother’s clean underwear for traffic accidents rule. FIRST thing in the morning, put on clothes that you would feel okay to have end up in a mug shot, especially when you have important questions to ask about curiously quiet people in your home.
3:22 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Okay, I need to log off here for a while and get some work done – you are killing me today with your lines, Wry. I had a horrible headache, but apparently laughter IS the best medicine. Thank you!
10:52 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Those look like shoulder pads to me. I think that is a shirt left over from 1980. I mean come on people, don’t you always put your shirt on inside out when you get your mug shot taken. lol
11:16 pm on January 23rd, 2008
Does all this crap make you more aware of what’s going on around you? We were cleaning carpets today and moved everything out of my sons room.
When not being supervised, but not in the bath, the kids were taking pictures of each other leaning into the mattress with their feet on the opposite wall so it looked like they were carrying the mattress or spiderman or who the hell knows what they were doing, as I was not watching them at all.
I’m thinking, oh great, this will end up on the net, and there is my laundry I still haven’t done ,few cobwebs up in the corner, bare mattresses in the middle of the hallway…
11:10 am on February 13th, 2008
ROFL! anyone know what works best to clean coffee off a plasma screen?
Really don’t think the insanity plea will work for her, maybe if she (and I used term very loosely) could prove she does have an IQ of 5 of lower she could claim stupid.
Its people like this that really makes me believe Darwin needs to add some chlorine to the gene pool on a regular basis.
6:30 am on February 29th, 2008
Nice to see needlepoint overriding garroting in the comment section. ‘Fusible interfacing?’ I didn’t have to look it up, but I sure had to think about it. The embroidery is a little too overdone for my taste, but hey, wash and wear, kill and stare – I don’t care.
But – that’s a beat-down woman. She bears an uncanny resemblance to that 50’s movie gangster Edward G. Robinson, See!
God, has her existence come to this: a faded dress and a frumpy mug shot after murdering the life from your womb? Waiter!- champage and aspirin, if you will.
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