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Sandra Cantu Sexually Assaulted With Rolling Pin Before Being Strangled, Stuffed in Suitcase
KTLA NewsSTOCKTON -- Newly released grand jury transcripts show Melissa Huckaby drugged 8-year old Sandra Cantu and sexually assaulted her with a rolling pin before strangling her with an alcohol soaked noose. Sandra"s body was found with a blood-soaked cloth...Tags: Social Issues, Justice System, Juvenile Delinquency, KTLA, Modesto
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Cantu, Huckaby Documents Released After Gag Order Lifted
FOX40 NewsThe San Joaquin County Court has released the indictment and courtroom transcripts relating to the trial of Melissa Huckaby for the kidnapping and murder of Sandra Cantu. The documents and details were previously withheld from the media under a gag order...Tags: Sexual Assault, Sex Crimes, Melissa Huckaby, Trials, Court Preliminary
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Huckaby Plea: Why Prosecutors Passed On Capital Murder Trial
FOX40 NewsMelissa Huckaby leaves the San Joaquin County Courthouse today with her life. She will spend that life in prison, but takes with her only the conviction for murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. She's not, according to the record at least, a rapist. "I...Tags: San Joaquin County, Sexual Assault, Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Justice System
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Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby gets life without parole in murder of 8-year-old girl
L.A. NOWA Sunday school teacher from Northern California accused of murdering an 8-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase was sentenced Monday to life without parole. Melissa Huckaby, 29, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering the child,... -
Courtroom Text Messages From Melissa Huckaby Sentencing
FOX40 NewsThe sentencing hearing for Melissa Huckaby has started in a San Joaquin County courtroom. "There is no mystery what the sentence is in this case," Judge Linda Lofthus. It's standing room only inside the courtroom, and a handful of people are standing....Tags: Death, Punishment, Melissa Huckaby, Crime, Law and Justice, Tracy
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Huckaby Ordered To Life In Prison, Restitution For Kidnap, Murder Of Sandra Cantu
FOX40 NewsFormer Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby has been sentenced to a prison term of life without the possibility of parole and ordered to pay more than $8,000 in restitution for the kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu of Tracy in 2009. "I...Tags: Justice System, Baptist, Trials, Teaching and Learning, Christianity
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Neighbors React To Huckaby Sentencing
FOX40 NewsOutside the neighborhood where Sandra Cantu lived, Orchard Estates in Tracy, police officers were asking the media not to go in, and neighbors were apprehensive to react on-camera to Melissa Huckaby's sentencing Monday. Except Coleen Toon. "Today is a...Tags: Melissa Huckaby, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Neighbor pleads guilty in case of slain girl found stuffed in suitcase
L.A. NOWA woman on Monday pleaded guilty in the slaying of Sandra Cantu, the 8-year-old kidnapped from her home last year and found dead in a suitcase. A San Joaquin County judge has accepted a guilty plea from Melissa Huckaby. Under...... -
Timeline: Disappearance, Murder Of Sandra Cantu & Trial Of Melissa Huckaby
FOX40 NewsA timeline of events in the kidnapping and murder investigation of Sandra Cantu and the criminal case of Melissa Huckaby. March 27, 2009: Sandra Cantu, an 8-year-old girl from Tracy, California, reported missing by family members after she fails to...Tags: House Building, Kidnapping, Baptist, Family, Trials
Jun 19, 2010
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Jun 14, 2010
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May 10, 2010
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