Two things bother me...one that she had the audacity to tell Sandra's family that Sandra didn't suffer? According to the prosecutor, Sandra died of "homicidal asphyxiation" and she is trying to tell everyone that Sandra didn't suffer? Puleeze. Saying anything other than that would probably get me a TO.
The other thing I find puzzling is that in the news article quoted above, it mentions that just 8 minutes after Sandra is last seen on the tape, Melissa gets in her vehicle and drives off. Eight minutes does not seem like the amount of time I had envisioned in my head for this crime to take place. Did she drug her immediately? Did she take her out of the house alive, in the suitcase and kill her at the church?
She drove from the mobile home park to the church, where the crime suposedly took place. The article doesn't mention how much time was spent at the church. Just that she left for half an hour when she went to the pond, returning back at the church.
ETA: I think I see what you are getting at. What happened so quick to be able to restrain, etc and get her in the car to drive to the church? IDK.
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Testa said a surveillance tape from the mobile home park showed Cantu skipping toward her home on March 27 when something caught her eye. Testa said Cantu "looks over in the direction of Melissa Huckaby's residence. Then she drops off the face of the earth."
The videotape then shows Huckaby, eight minutes later, driving out of the mobile home park in the direction of her grandfather's church, Clover Road Baptist Church.
Testa said about the time Huckaby was leaving, she phoned the trailer park manager to report her black suitcase stolen in front of her trailer.
The prosecutor said another surveillance tape showed Huckaby driving away from the church and then returning to the church 30 minutes later. Testa said during that 30-minute window, a retired marine and his wife saw Huckaby and her SUV at an irrigation pond at Bacchetti and Whitehall roads in Tracy.
When she was questioned by police, Huckaby said she stopped at the pond in order to urinate.