DIRTY BUSINESS

Woman’s Muddy Mugshot Goes Viral After Cops Found Her Inside Wall

The 26-year-old Iowan was nabbed after hiding in an Illinois business’ walls.

A woman suspected of burglary was snapped in a mugshot with her face covered in dirt after being pulled out of the walls of an Illinois business. Caleigh Gottsche, 26, was arrested on Wednesday after a business owner in Geneseo heard whispering in the walls, according to a police statement. The noise stopped when cops were called, and officers left after arriving and not hearing it. But they returned when contacted a second time. “Officers were able to make voice contact with an individual and determined that a person was located between interior walls of a business,” the police statement said. She was pulled out by the fire department, and several businesses at the location sustained damage at potential entry points on the roof, according to WSAZ3. Two other suspects had already fled and are still being sought, the outlet said. The woman was charged with burglary, damage to property and trespassing, police said. It remains unclear what business she was in, what she has been accused of stealing and how she became trapped in the wall. Just three days earlier, she was arrested in Iowa for allegedly driving while barred—with that mugshot being starkly different from her muddied face days later.