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Woman in mobile home park reported missing suitcase
A Sunday school teacher said someone took her black rolling suitcase from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park on the day 8-year-old murder victim Sandra Cantu disappeared.
It’s a huge suitcase, 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby said in a phone interview today, waterproof and charcoal-trimmed with an Eddie Bauer logo.
Police have yet to confirm whether it’s the same one found Monday morning that contained Sandra’s dead body.
Farmworkers discovered a suitcase that generally matches that description submerged in a dairy lagoon two miles north of mobile home park where Sandra lived. For the last year, after moving from Southern California, Huckaby and her 5-year-old daughter have lived there, too, with Huckaby’s grandparents, Clifford Lane Lawless and Connie Lawless, she said.
Sandra went missing on March 27, the same day and in the same late-afternoon hour that Huckaby said the black suitcase disappeared from her driveway.
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Sandra had stopped at her house earlier and asked to play with her daughter, Huckaby said. But Huckaby said she didn’t want her daughter to play, because she had to pick up her toys. So Sandra left for another friend’s house, she said.
The 18 seconds of surveillance footage that shows Sandra playfully skipping by her family’s home show her on her way back to Huckaby’s home after leaving that other friend’s house, Huckaby said.
After Sandra left, her oldest sister, 11-year-old Miranda, went to Huckaby’s house, too. Huckaby asked Miranda if she could watch her daughter for her while she went down the street to the church. Connie Lawless was home, too.
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A Sunday school teacher said someone took her black rolling suitcase from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park on the day 8-year-old murder victim Sandra Cantu disappeared.
It’s a huge suitcase, 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby said in a phone interview today, waterproof and charcoal-trimmed with an Eddie Bauer logo.
Police have yet to confirm whether it’s the same one found Monday morning that contained Sandra’s dead body.
Farmworkers discovered a suitcase that generally matches that description submerged in a dairy lagoon two miles north of mobile home park where Sandra lived. For the last year, after moving from Southern California, Huckaby and her 5-year-old daughter have lived there, too, with Huckaby’s grandparents, Clifford Lane Lawless and Connie Lawless, she said.
Sandra went missing on March 27, the same day and in the same late-afternoon hour that Huckaby said the black suitcase disappeared from her driveway.
~snip~
Sandra had stopped at her house earlier and asked to play with her daughter, Huckaby said. But Huckaby said she didn’t want her daughter to play, because she had to pick up her toys. So Sandra left for another friend’s house, she said.
The 18 seconds of surveillance footage that shows Sandra playfully skipping by her family’s home show her on her way back to Huckaby’s home after leaving that other friend’s house, Huckaby said.
After Sandra left, her oldest sister, 11-year-old Miranda, went to Huckaby’s house, too. Huckaby asked Miranda if she could watch her daughter for her while she went down the street to the church. Connie Lawless was home, too.
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