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Good point! But I don't know if it's LE, or that Florida just has different terrain and lots of alligators.
An arrest has been made!
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Casey Anthony is her own alligator... I seriously doubt TPD could get her to talk. MH was far too willing to insert herself into the investigation and she was more than willing to talk to press... MH set her own arrest up, IMO.
(ETA: of course, if yall mean Misty, then perhaps someone could get her to talk, but this far into Haleigh's case, I just don't know)
(ETA: of course, if yall mean Misty, then perhaps someone could get her to talk, but this far into Haleigh's case, I just don't know)
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I'm just reading so someone might have already said this but
it is possible that she was not allowed to play at her house anymore.
In the video it appears to me that she was a little hesitant to go
kind of like she wasn't sure if she should ...
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Too bad Sandra didn't listen to her instinct and just go home and stay there!
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I couldn't agree more.
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http://cbs13.com/
presser video... in box to the right (perhaps questions and answers can be heard better. I will take notes)
presser video... in box to the right (perhaps questions and answers can be heard better. I will take notes)
What a good thing that she flapped her lips! Without all her stories about the stolen suitcase, etc, I wonder how long it would have taken the police to nab this killer? She really gave herself away. Thank God.
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Thanks Nures. oooouh, you are so brave to do this kind of work.
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I just read melissa was taken in to custody at 11:55 PM last night but was not Booked till 2 something.Another Good Friday as laci ame a shore n Good Friday
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.
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Quick question. Where is the information from that she drugged and molested someone previously? Thanks 
Hi Columbo, I'm not sure yet, but I think the family had to know that this girl was half crazy. When she drugged Sandra last year, they had to at least suspect she had serious problems. You just dont live with someone, especially a granddaughter, without knowing, or suspecting if they are a pedophile. Could be she has always been molested by another family member. Children who are molested their entire childhood, sometimes grow up to molest other childrem. So sad. This may be a family of molesters.
Nonni
The family had to have known she was off the wall. Maybe that is why the grandfather seemed so.....elusive? skanky? can't think of the right word.... when the press talked to him. Connie (MH 's grandmother) must be in denial or trying to protect everyone. I suspect that MH was molested as a child, too. Yep.
BINGO! I bet that is it. Sandra would have been 7 yrs old--she just recently (early 2009, i believe) had her 8th birthday. Correct me if I am mistaken.
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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!
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.
.
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.
.
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.
.
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.
.
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!
I think he said something about only catching one hour of sleep last night. These guys are dedicated.
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I think she turned 8 in early March...
I'm sorry. I can't get any of the links to work, saying Sandra was the child drugged. Can someone give us one?
Thanks in advance!
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Thank you BB12....It makes sense now if she claims to have been on the property of the dairy farm several times....I've been thinking about this...I know that area EXTREMELY well and the curve of Tracy Blvd where the dairy farm is does not look like a public road. The area is rural and it's not unusual for there to be private roads that lead up to a driveway or gate. I've been at that curve literally hundreds of times and NEVER once thought it was a public road- it's narrow and though it's paved, it's dirty. I have seen large trucks coming in and out several years ago- I thought at the time for some kind of construction. Also of note is the fact that from Tracy Blvd, you can't see even a HINT of water in that area.
So thinking about where Sandra was dumped, that the killer would go down a seeminly private road, right past a little house close to the road seemed unlikely when just 2 minutes up the road was an easy entrance to the water at a little bridge...a little past that is a small road that leads to an area known for flooding.
I guess what I'm getting at is that the killer was either EXTREMELY familiar with that area to know the little road was there and went out to the water where they would be undetected or they were extremely brazen and VERY lucky.
So thinking about where Sandra was dumped, that the killer would go down a seeminly private road, right past a little house close to the road seemed unlikely when just 2 minutes up the road was an easy entrance to the water at a little bridge...a little past that is a small road that leads to an area known for flooding.
I guess what I'm getting at is that the killer was either EXTREMELY familiar with that area to know the little road was there and went out to the water where they would be undetected or they were extremely brazen and VERY lucky.