An arrest has been made!

MH knows there would be Dairy Farm road evidence on her SUV. So she pre-explains her connection to the farm, just like she pre-explains the suitcase. Trying to cover her tracks after the fact, I guess.
 
MH knows there would be Dairy Farm road evidence on her SUV. So she pre-explains her connection to the farm, just like she pre-explains the suitcase. Trying to cover her tracks after the fact, I guess.

I agree. Every comment she made to the media was to cover her *advertiser censored*.
 
cliff notes
Sandra C. - Murderer ARRESTED
Melissa Chantel La**ess Hu**aby age 28
Married John Hu**aby (Divorce proceedings-on going)
Melissa Chantel La**ess
Birth Date: 23 Feb 1981
Birth County: Orange
West High School graduate from Sept 1 1995 to June 30, 1999
Melissa Hu**aby admitted to:

1) Owning the suitcase in which Sandra's body was found.

2) Seeing Sandra at the time she went missing (last known person to see her alive).

3) Going to the church during the time Sandra went missing.

4) Admitting she has frequented the dump site where Sandra's body was found in HER suitcase.

5) Having a note which details the exact location of Sandra's body.

6) Having no alibi at the time Sandra went missing unless she was seen at the church by someone else.

Christian S**clair, 49, (RUMORED TO BE MELISSA BOY FRIEND) (AGE DOES NOT MATCH UP IN MY BOOK) was arrested last week for obstructing the police investigation and has been described in court records as alcoholic and abusive.
A friend of Sinclair, David Sla**er, 44, whose home and cars were searched, was questioned by police last week. Sla**er admitted Sandra had been in his home several times. Another rumor is that F. Williams is Mellisa's BF and he recently beat her up?

Huckaby says she has spent some time on the farm near the irrigation ditch where Sandra C. body was discovered in suitcase

Huckaby said that she found a note the day after Cantu's disappearance. Found the note near Sandra C. trailer/home.

According to Huckaby, the note said, "Cantu, Suitcase, Water. The word 'suitcase' was misspelled, and there were two street names including the word 'Whitehall.'" Whitehall Road is exactly where Sandra was found.

The "murder weapon" that is still missing. Speculation: the blinds were removed from the Lawless home - i.e. the cord. and/or the blinds where removed from Slayter's trailer home.

Bamboo blinds were pulled from the mobile home.
http://www.kcra.com/news/19121818/detail.html#
Checked the Superior Court records in Orange County CA and she has 2 traffic violations.


Police said the have identified the murder site, however, they will not disclose this to the public at this time. Rumor has it -the location is the church and or shed at the church.

Police said they have no other suspects and no other arrest will be made at this time. Most people do not believe this.

Twenty-eight-year-old Melissa Chantel Hu**aby was arrested at 11:55 p.m. Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and killing 8-year-old Sandra C. The 28-year-old Hu**aby is a Sunday school teacher and the granddaughter of the pastor of Clover Road Baptist Church.
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A few things we know about who Melissa is:

Huckaby is the granddaughter of Clifford Lane La**ess, pastor of the Clover Road Baptist Church, located just down the street from Sandra's house.

-Clifford Lane La**ess (77) and Connie (grandparents)
-Brian (47) -Judy's (49) (La**ess) parents they live 5 hours away
-2 younger brothers
-Adam (23) is in the military in Virginia
-Caleb (21) is in college in Long Beach
-She has at least 1 daughter


Melissa’s last myspace login was on 4/3/09. Her mood was set to "crazy". Her status was "~MEL to the ISSA~ is high on life! lol" It appears LE has not logged into her myspace account since the last login date was before Sandra was found.

Huckaby was booked into the San Joaquin County jail about 3:25 a.m. (6:25 a.m. ET), according to the sheriff's Web site. She faces charges of kidnapping and murder, and is set to appear in court Tuesday.

www.myspace.com/Cinderella888

http://s598.photobucket.com/albums/tt62/elepher50/LaShots/?action=view¤t=ML.jpg

Uncle - Lane "Brian" La**ess
Julianne (sister?)
Emily is Melissa's cousin. -"hoping my family will be okay" http://www.myspace.com/emi_supe
http://www.facebook.com/people/Melissa-Huckaby/1258777755

Huckaby was not at the first vigil for Sandra, but there was an indication from people at the second that she attended that one.

SHE WAS ARRESTED 2 TIMES IN THE PAST: she is the one who was hospitalized a few days ago and police sat outside the hospital just sitting there------sounds like this lady is mentally odd----she has some major issues---Sounds like police thought it was her and her suitcase on day one.

Huckaby was recently convicted for petty theft in San Joaquin County, and was scheduled to appear in court on April 17 to check in with a county mental health program as part of a three-year probation sentence.

According to court records, Huckaby had claimed she was not mentally competent to stand trial in the case. The judge ordered her to be examined by physicians. Later, it was determined that she was competent and she pleaded no contest.

In an interview with the local newspaper on Friday, Huckaby said someone else by the same name was charged for the November theft from a Target store.

Huckaby was also convicted by Superior Court in Los Angeles County in November of 2006 for a petty theft in Bellflower, records showed.

Huckaby said her suitcase had an Eddie Bauer logo and was waterproof and charcoal-trimmed. Those details matched a general description of the suitcase that Sandra's body was found inside.

Huckaby claimed it was packed with things to redo her classroom. (Sunday school teacher)

While Huckaby said she has spoken to authorities, she did not know if her missing suitcase was indeed the one that held the girl's body.

Huckaby said she was packing up the car to go do some work at the nearby church on March 27 — but ended up leaving the suitcase next to her car because she forgot to pack it. About 30 minutes later, when she realized she forgot it, she said she left her grandfather's church and went back to the mobile home park to retrieve her suitcase, but by then it was gone.

Huckaby said Sandra often played with her own daughter, and that Sandra had come over that day, but Huckaby said she told the girl to go away because she was too busy.

In a phone interview on Friday, Huckaby had told KPIX that Sandra visited her home March 27, the day she disappeared, to play with her 5-year-old daughter. Huckaby also said she had left a suitcase in the driveway that day, and that it was missing.
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Huckaby was arrested at the Tracy Police Department, where she had gone voluntarily for questioning nearly five hours earlier, police spokesman Sgt. Tony Sh**eman said.
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She was booked into custody at 2:49 a.m. Saturday at San Joaquin County Jail.

When she got to the church, Huckaby’s grandmother called and said she found her keys and cell phone. Huckaby said that’s when she realized she had left the $200 suitcase outside. When her family went out to get it, they said it was gone.

“So I talked to the assistant manager at the mobile home park and asked him to keep an eye out for this suitcase, someone took it,” Huckaby said. “I also told some older kids to look out for it. I didn’t think much then because, you know, kids were getting out of school and I thought that maybe someone, maybe someone walking by just took it.”

She called Tracy police intending to file a report, but decided to do it online. She never got around to it. Key word is called, however, police said no such call was made.

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full...ead_story&open

Police found Sandra’s dead body in a black suitcase submerged in a dairy lagoon 2 miles north of the mobile home park.
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Earlier Friday evening, FBI agents and police were seen at the Baptist church, where they loaded what looked like a fold-up bed into a crime scene van. They had searched the church on Monday.

Huckaby told the Tracy Press that she and her 5-year-old daughter had lived for the past year with her grandparents and that on March 27 Sandra had stopped by her house and asked to play with her daughter. Huckaby said she’d said no, because her daughter needed to pick up her toys and that Sandra went to another friend’s home.
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Huckaby’s dark purple Kia SUV was towed and searched by police Tuesday night.
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When she talked to the Tracy Press Friday, she said she wasn’t the same Melissa Huckaby who pleaded no contest Jan. 9 to a felony charge of second-degree commercial burglary and a misdemeanor charge of petty theft after being arrested in November 2008 for trying to steal something from Target. She had been examined by doctors and was deemed mentally competent to stand trial. She was due back in court next week for sentencing.

Huckaby was released Thursday from Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, where she spent several days in the intensive care unit for what she described as “internal bleeding.” Police were stationed at the hospital during her stay. (Suicide would be approx 3 days, ulcer would be at least 2 days, how can one be in intensive care and then go home??? Speculation is she swallowed her relatives Coumadin (warfarin) pills (blood thinners)
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Police announced Friday a $32,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of Sandra Cantu, last seen in a surveillance video skipping down the street near her mobile home.

Target - Eddie Bauer Luggage $99 not 200

http://www.localcrimenews.com/lookup.php?jid=3301990
812 W Clover Rd Spc 57
Tracy , CA 95376-1712

Reported: 11/03/2008 by Crime Reporter No. 7195
Source: Tracy PD

F PC459 Burglary
F PC666 Petty Theft With Prior

Fundraiser for Sandra
http://www.tracypress.com/pages/ful...le-Briefs =&instance=home_news_bullets&open=&

Check out this video. It is the second one down on the left with 3 men standing in front of a shed. About 1 minute and 7 seconds into the video, the reporter says the note was found at Sandra's Home!
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/us_world/Man-Reported-at-Pond-Where-Tracy-Girl-Was-Found--.html

http://www.ktvu.com/video/19156648/index.html
10 am Sat. News Conference.

migrant farm workers who discovered body refused the reward money

NBC is reporting Huckaby was questioned by investigators a few months ago after taking a 7 year old to the park--7 year old came back with narcotics in her system. See the above video/phone interview with Melissa. Bottom line: speculation is police are looking for a sex tape child molesting video ring---searching the church roof top for a receiver etc. all angles are being looked at along with the connection to all the child molesters?? All rumors!

This post is fantastic! Thank you very much, BB12! :clap:
 
I agree. Every comment she made to the media was to cover her *advertiser censored*.


So, ladybug, what else has she "pre-explained" besides the suitcase and the Dairy Farm?
 
Very good detailed article below:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12119398?source=most_viewed

(snips)
Huckaby was emotional at various times during her interview with police, including when she was handcuffed. He would not say whether Huckaby's statement amounted to a confession.
He said he was told Huckaby was not at the first vigil for Sandra, but there was an indication from people at the second that she attended that one.

The farm workers who found the suitcase have refused to accept any reward money, he said.


Asked about a motive, Sheneman said, "I can't discuss that."
Whether the slaying was premeditated will be up to the District Attorney to decide in filing the charges, Sheneman said. He said police do have an indication whether it was premeditated, but he would not elaborate. Asked whether Huckaby's child was taken into protective custody, he said, "You can make that presumption but I can't confirm anything."

Will not speculate on whether she was molested. The autopsy results and search warrants are still sealed.
Police questioned her twice before Thursday.
"It's usual for a woman statistically, according to the FBI, for a woman to be involved in anything like this."
Police believe they know where the slaying occurred but won't say where.
 
So, ladybug, what else has she "pre-explained" besides the suitcase and the Dairy Farm?

IMO, I think the drugging. She freely spoke to a local reporter about the charges...

She explained the suitcase, knowing the dairy farm, the note, having Sandra in the house previously.....It's great that she's locked up now, but if this woman had been out for another day or two to gobble up her 15 minutes, I think we would have heard more "explanations".

Now, she's said that she reported the suitcase missing- which we know is a lie. She's also said that the same day it went "missing" that she told the manager and some teenagers about it....what do you want to bet there's nobody that knows WTH she's talking about?
 
I just love that guy. He He. He's a real NO-nonsense guy.... No BS coming from or being accepted by him!
From the above link: Sheneman said: "Professionally, while we're confident and pleased an arrest has been made, it will not reverse what happened. There's no joy in this."
At this morning's press conference, his cell phone alarm went off. He'd been up for 24 hours. He didn't recognize his own alarm, he was so bleary! He asked people to check their cell phones. Then he quipped "Apparently I'm not up yet." And then he set it to snooze and it went off again. I laughed out loud.
Bravo, Sheneman! Great job! Now go get some sleep.
 
If this is true about Sandra being found drugged by MH 6 months ago and found unresponsive in the trailer park, then it will eventually come out during the trial, I would think.

I don't understand why there wasn't an arrest or at least an investigation at the time it happened--unless it wasn't reported. But if she were taken to the hospital, the doctors at the hospital would have reported it to the police, wouldn't they? I thought doctors were pretty rigorous about reporting anything that could be child abuse to the authorities.


After an afternoon of researching this "drugging" myself, I have come to the conclusion that it is PURELY RUMOR that Sandra was the victim of the drugging 6 months ago. There was a child that came home with narcotics present in her system but the 1st rumor this morning was that the child was Sandra and she was found unresponsive behind a building near the mobile home park. There is no factual information to support that claim. Which would explain why there was no arrest 6 months ago for a 7 year old being drugged or a report from the hospital 6 months ago that a child had been found unresponsive and drugged by Melissa H.
 
After an afternoon of researching this "drugging" myself, I have come to the conclusion that it is PURELY RUMOR that Sandra was the victim of the drugging 6 months ago. There was a child that came home with narcotics present in her system but the 1st rumor this morning was that the child was Sandra and she was found unresponsive behind a building near the mobile home park. There is no factual information to support that claim. Which would explain why there was no arrest 6 months ago for a 7 year old being drugged or a report from the hospital 6 months ago that I child had been found unresponsive and drugged by Melissa H.

I agree. And there are 2 things that support this:

1) Melissa was forthcoming to the local reporter about the incident- did NOT say it was Sandra.
2) Early on we heard about an incident of a man kissing Sandra on the lips at the pool 2 years ago. It would seem to me that a person possibly drugging her a handful of months ago would be a HELL of a lot more important for everyone to know, yet we heard nothing about this.

We know the incident happened. I think that until there is a solid statement about it from LE or anybody "in the know" that we should not speculate that it was Sandra.
 
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I just looked at the picture of Melissa.
I was shocked at my own reaction to her face.
I pulled back.
I have looked at pictures of other murderers before and I have never
felt repelled.
Maybe because she is a woman, a mother of a 5 yr old. ?
But Casey A murdered her own child and I did not have that instant
reaction.

I just looked at the picture again and her face does not seem symetrical.
Maybe that is it.

No it's because she looks evil and scary. If I passed her in the grocery store I would stiffen I suspect.
 
Just remembered, have one more thing to add from today's 10am press conference- migrant farm workers who discovered body refused the reward money.

That really says a lot about the moral fiber of those farm workers. I'm sure they could use the money but won't take it....
 
You guys are free to think what you want about the prior drugging, but with hearing it before Melissa bringing it up...I tend to believe it is true. It will likely come out over the next few days and my money is on Tracy Press to be the outlet reporting it. We shall see...
 
I wonder what date the pond was actually filled with water? It sounded like it was empty the actual day that Sandra disappeared. I doubt that Melissa would have put the suitcase into an empty pond....so if Sandra was killed within minutes of meeting her killer, that means that Melissa had to conceal her body for awhile.

I apologize if this issue was addressed in another thread...there are so many posts, I am getting lost sometimes!
 
TOP STORY
Suspect Arrested In Sandra Cantu Murder

04/11/2009
The Tracy County Police Department arrested Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby, 28, for the kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. She was booked at the San Joaquin County Jail early Saturday morning, and no bail is allowed. Her arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday, April 14 at 1:30 PM. Huckaby had lived in the same mobile park as the Cantu family, and Sandra was friends with her daughter. Stay tuned to AMW.com for the latest on this breaking story.
>>The Full Story
>>The Latest From FOX40 Sacramento

http://www.amw.com/
 
If the story about Sandra being drugged and sexually abused is true.....why in the heck was she allowed to be out, roaming that place, alone?? Why??

:mad:
 
Someone mentioned earlier about the possibility of ... nasty movies... being the motive. Would that explain the FBI being involved?

It's times like this I wish we in California had sunshine laws similar to Florida's.

They must know something if she was charged with PC187(a).
 
If the story about Sandra being drugged and sexually abused is true.....why in the heck was she allowed to be out, roaming that place, alone?? Why??

:mad:
Or for that matter, any other child in the same park?
 
Very good detailed article below:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12119398?source=most_viewed

(snips)
Huckaby was emotional at various times during her interview with police, including when she was handcuffed. He would not say whether Huckaby's statement amounted to a confession.
He said he was told Huckaby was not at the first vigil for Sandra, but there was an indication from people at the second that she attended that one.

The farm workers who found the suitcase have refused to accept any reward money, he said.


Asked about a motive, Sheneman said, "I can't discuss that."
Whether the slaying was premeditated will be up to the District Attorney to decide in filing the charges, Sheneman said. He said police do have an indication whether it was premeditated, but he would not elaborate. Asked whether Huckaby's child was taken into protective custody, he said, "You can make that presumption but I can't confirm anything."

Will not speculate on whether she was molested. The autopsy results and search warrants are still sealed.
Police questioned her twice before Thursday.
"It's usual for a woman statistically, according to the FBI, for a woman to be involved in anything like this."
Police believe they know where the slaying occurred but won't say where.


Thanks Suzi, My, slaying is a strong word for Sheneman to use, isn't it.

ETA: That word could have been supplied by the journo, not Sheneman.
 

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