Mom makes boyfriend special dinner and romance after they allegedly brutalize, kill & dismember her 10-year-old girl together

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Martens body was found in pieces, but the autopsy suggests the 10 year old was strangled to death. Her mom, her mom's boyfriend and another woman are all awaiting trial for the young Albuquerque girl's murder. Nancy Grace explores the latest in the case with forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, New Mexico lawyer John Day, lawyer/psychologist and host of Investigation Discovery's "Fatal Vows" series Dr. Brian Russell, and CrimeOnline reporter Ellen Killoran.

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0:00.0	The
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0:12.0	Victoria was killed on August 24th right around her 10th birthday.
0:15.8	The whole thing is beyond anyone's conception that this could happen, especially to a little
0:20.6	10-year-old child.
0:22.1	According to her autopsy, after she was strangled and killed, Victoria was then stabbed and dismembered.
0:27.2	The medical examiner wrote some of her vital organs were found in a plastic bag.
0:31.4	This is horrible, but it appears that she died from strangulation.
0:35.4	According to the medical examiner's report, sometime before she was killed, the 10-year-old
0:39.6	suffered abuse and contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
0:43.0	There was evidence of sexual abuse both in terms of rectal trauma.
0:46.4	Her mother, Michelle Martins, is now charged with Victoria's death.
0:49.6	Martins' boyfriend, Fabian Gonzalez, is also charged with killing the child.
0:53.7	His cousin Jessica Kelly is the third suspect in this case.
0:57.7	It was a hot August day when the body of a 10-year-old little girl, Victoria Martins, was found
1:07.2	in an apartment building.
1:09.7	What happened?
1:12.1	What we know is that her body, this 10-year-old little girl, was wrapped in a blanket.
1:24.6	In this apartment, and we know that she was partially dismembered.
1:30.6	What happened?
1:34.6	What led up to a 10-year-old little girl's dismemberment?
1:41.6	Her death, her body being disposed of?
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