15-07-2025
Daughter left mum to rot in bed for 'at least a year' so she could run her true crime blog
Elizabeth Drake, 40, was living with her 72-year-old mother when police responded to a call at their home after a delivery driver overheard the elderly woman 'yelling for help'
A daughter who left her elderly mum to rot in bed for "at least a year" so she could run her true crime Facebook page has been jailed.
Elizabeth Drake, 40, was living with her 72-year-old mother when police responded to a call at their Wisconsin home after a delivery driver overheard the elderly woman "yelling for help."
Cops arrived at the house in December 2023 and approached Drake at the front door, who claimed her mum was fine. When an officer said they would need to check on her, Drake told them her mum's room was a bit "messy."
After entering the home, the officer said the cluttered home had a "very obnoxious smell" that was "animal, garbage, urine, and feces." There were also "bugs all over the home."
According to the complaint, items discovered also included "soiled diapers, garbage, clothes, pop cans and other miscellaneous items."
The mum confessed to police that her daughter was "holding her prisoner and she wanted to get out of the house."
Officers said Drake's mum had "bed sores, urine material stuck to her hair, and what looked like bug droppings on her."
She told police that after breaking her leg the year before, Drake was "supposed to take care of her" but she had not been moved from the bed or used the bathroom for "at least a year."
After being admitted to hospital, nurses said the mother had bed sores on her buttocks, back, legs and stomach. Drake agreed the home was in a "terrible condition" but claimed her mum "chose" to live like that.
The mum informed police that Drake "ignores her cries for help due to it bugging her". The cruel daughter was busy running a local crime blog called Green Bay Crime Reports, which had around 164,000 followers. It has since been taken down.
Drake was sentenced to a year in prison and ordered not to have any contact with her mother. She was also placed on extended supervision for three years.
It comes after a woman was allegedly held captive inside a shed, buried alive and tortured with an "electrical cord" for two weeks by her boyfriend - before managing to escape.
The victim, who escaped through the back of the shed and ran to a nearby neighbour for help, told call handlers she had been abused for weeks by 36-year-old Timothy Wood.
"She was frantic. She was scared to death that he was going to find her and kill her," the neighbour said to FOX 10. "She had two black eyes, and then she had a cut right in here. She had a bruise on her head. She had a bruise on her leg."
The neighbour took the woman inside and immediately called the police. "You could tell she hadn't been taken care of, hadn't showered. She was kind of, you know, dirty and stuff," the neighbour added. She was rushed to hospital for treatment.
