Martha Huber

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Martha Huber
Christine Estabrook as Martha Huber
First appearance	Pilot (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	Guilty (episode 1.08) Move On (episode 1.11) (flashback) Every Day a Little Death (episode 1.12) (flashback) Fear No More (episode 1.20) (flashback)
Cause/Reason	Murdered by Paul Young
Statistics
Gender	Female
Age	48 at death
Family	Felicia Tilman (sister) Mr. Huber (husband; deceased) Millicent Tilman (mother)
Portrayed by	Christine Estabrook
Created by	Marc Cherry

Martha Huber is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by Christine Estabrook.

Martha wrote the letter that caused Mary Alice Young to commit suicide, setting the main story of the first season in motion. The letter read, "I know what you did. It makes me sick. I'm going to tell.", referring to Mary Alice and Paul Young's buying Dierdre Taylor's baby and Mary Alice's subsequent murder of Dierdre. Martha also heard the gunshot when Mary Alice shot herself and, wanting an excuse to go over to the Youngs' house to investigate, got a blender she had borrowed from Mary Alice down off her shelf so that she could "just happen" to drop by to return it. When she saw that Mary Alice was dead, Martha smiled to herself, removed the "Property of Mary Alice Young" label from the blender, and placed it back on her own shelf.

Mary Alice Young introduces Martha Huber from her position as narrator in an episode of Desperate Housewives: "Martha Huber waited her whole life for something to happen to her, something exciting. As a child, she hoped to be kidnapped by a band of pirates. As a teenager, she dreamt of being discovered by a Hollywood talent scout. As a young woman, she fantasized that a handsome millionaire would sweep her off her feet. But the years had flown by, and still, nothing exciting had ever happened to Martha Huber. Until the night she was murdered. In those last moments, it occurred to her, in addition to being boring, life could also be very cruel. Luckily for Mrs. Huber, death was far more merciful.".

After Martha Huber was murdered by Paul Young, her sister Felicia Tilman comes to town to find out what happened to her.

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