Posted on 04/11/2009 8:14:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
Totally weird
Citing court records, the Tracy Press reported a 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby pleaded no contest January 9 to a felony charge of second-degree commercial burglary and a misdemeanor charge of property theft with a prior theft, burglary or robbery.
A criminal complaint says she was jailed in Los Angeles County on a property theft conviction in 2006 and that she attempted to steal from a store in November 2008. According to the complaint, she is on probation in San Joaquin County and is due back in court April 17.
Asked about the court records, Huckaby told the newspaper it wasn’t her and that she did not know why the address and cell phone number in the court documents match her own. “I don’t know what to say,” she said. “That’s not me.”
Police believe that by the time Sandra was reported missing, she was already dead, Tracy Police Chief Janet Thiessen told reporters Saturday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/11/california.girl.arrest/
From what I can piece together, the perp was a mental case who had custody of her 5 year old daughter and they both lived with the Preacher and his wife ( Grandparents).
Beyond that, it's unclear how Sandra met her fate.
The child's body was found fully clothed and strangely enough, she even had on her little flip flops. That seemed all too nice and tidy. sw
Raw interview with suspect, Melissa Huckaby
http://cbs13.com/video?id=
By Huckaby’s own admission, she volunteered that as recently as a few months ago, she was interviewed by police regarding a 7 year old girl from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park who she had taken to a nearby park three times during that week with her five year old daughter. She stated to several reporters in telephone interviews late yesterday afternoon that at approximately 2 am, hours after she returned the young playmate, police showed up at her trailer and told her the child had narcotics in her system.
http://blinkoncrime.com/2009/04/11/sandra-cantu-murder-melissa-huckaby-arrested/
“Unstable” sounds like an excuse, a mental illness that the woman could not control. Whatever happened, I think that the woman knew what she was doing.
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