 Story highlights She was on the run for five years 
 
 The woman was taken into custody at an Oregon shopping mall 
 
 She and her husband are accused of abusing their adopted children 
 
 For five years, they pursued her, always one step behind as she used aliases and altered her appearance to elude them. Marshals' most wanted U.S. Barreto and her husband, Ramon Barreto, allegedly traveled to Guatemala multiple times in 2005 and 2006 to adopt children, but when they returned to the U.S., the couple allegedly abused the children, left them malnourished and forced them to live in “deplorable conditions,” according to a news release from the law enforcement agency. "The children were purportedly often punished with beatings and on various occasions duct-taped to their beds, punched in the stomach, and forced to endure having their heads submerged under water," the Marshals Service said. In 2008, one of the adopted children, a 2-year-old girl, died as a result of the abuse, according to the U.S. Janet Killough Barreto is wanted in Mississippi for failing to appear on charges of manslaughter of a child, three counts of child abuse, six counts of child neglect and tampering with a witness, according to the U.S. Two months later, she didn’t show up for her trial in the death of the 2 year old. On the run 
 
 In March 2009, Barreto was arrested again for tampering with a witness and later released on bond. Marshals Service’s assistant director for investigative operations, said June 2013 in a news release announcing that Janet Barreto had been added to the agency’s 15 Most Wanted list. Authorities asked the public for any information leading to Barreto, offering a $25,000 reward. “Janet Barreto is a malicious individual who allegedly abused innocent children on multiple occasions and forced them to live in appalling conditions,” William Snelson, U.S. Marshals Service Director Stacia Hylton. The infant found with the Barretos during their arrest was placed with child protective services, authorities said. Both are currently being held at the Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland, awaiting extradition to Mississippi, authorities said.
– Janet Killough Barreto, who apparently adopted multiple kids from Central America in the mid-2000s, was ultimately accused of abusing one of them to death and released on bond, reports the Columbian. But she was a no-show at her 2009 trial to face charges of manslaughter, child abuse and neglect, and tampering with a witness, and authorities have been looking for her ever since—until now. The only woman on the US Marshals' "Most Wanted" list was arrested in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday with her husband, notes CNN, and officials say the pair may have been holed up in Vancouver, British Columbia, for at least the past year. Barreto and husband Ramon Barreto allegedly bought several children from a Guatemalan adoption agency in 2005 and 2006, but once they got the kids home, what transpired was "nothing short of horrendous and despicable," the sheriff of Union County, Miss.—where the crimes reportedly took place—tells CNN. The children weren't properly fed and suffered physical abuse that was said to include having their heads pushed underwater, punches to the stomach, and being duct-taped to hard-bottomed beds. In 2008, their 2-year-old daughter died, reportedly as a result of abuse, but the Barretos skipped town before the trial. The couple was arrested Tuesday after someone spotted them outside a Portland Burlington Coat Factory with an 11-month-old baby. The baby was placed with CPS.