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Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on Sandra, found based on lacerations to her lower lip that she was smothered to death.
There was evidence of rubbing alcohol in her body; investigators found a half-empty bottle of rubbing alcohol in the church. Lab tests found traces of Alprazolam, or Xanax, the anti-anxiety drug that Huckaby was prescribed and allegedly fed Plowman and another Tracy girl.
Later, an FBI lab detected Sandra's DNA on a metal rolling pin found in a kitchen drawer at the church.
At her sentencing, Huckaby said she acted alone, and claimed Sandra did not suffer. She said she did not sexually molest the girl.
But Omalu described a painful sexual assault.
He said what struck him was the "meticulous nature" of the crime.
Sandra was redressed neatly, with her black leggings folded tidily at her lower thigh. Her plastic Hannah Montana sandals were placed at the bottom of the suitcase, and her body folded in a "perfect fetal position" inside the case, Omalu testified.
"This was not something heat of the moment. This was a very calm, calculating mind at work."
That pointed to a woman, he said.
"A guy's not going to even dress her, is he?" prosecutor Thomas Testa asked.
"No, no," Omalu replied. (He'd) dump her."
