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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: Trials, Crimes, Justice System, Murder, Judges
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Huckaby Pleads Guilty to Murder of 8-year old Sandra Cantu
KTLA NewsSTOCKTON -- In a surprise move Melissa Huckaby pleaded guilty Monday to the murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu. Huckaby pleaded guilty to murder with a special circumstance of kidnapping. All other charges against her in the case were dropped. San...Tags: Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Health and Safety at School, Crimes
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Women on the Verge
They're leading the news... They're behind the wheel... And they're involved in unspeakable crimes... In recent weeks, the headlines have been filled with stories of women on the verge.
From the woman who led police on a two-hour car chase in a U-Haul to...Tags: Los Angeles, Crime, Law and Justice, Caylee Anthony, Death, Crimes
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Sunday School Teacher Indicted in Cantu Murder
KTLA NewsTRACY -- A Sunday school teacher has been indicted by a San Joaquin grand jury on charges she kidnapped, raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and drugged two other people. Twenty-eight-year-old Melissa Huckaby broke down in tears as Judge Linda Lofthus...Tags: Sex Crimes, Trials, Health and Safety at School, Crimes, Justice System
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Plea Delayed for Woman Accused in Sandra Cantu Murder
The Sunday school teacher accused in the rape and killing of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu had her plea delayed a second time Friday to give her defense team more time to prepare. Public Defender Sam Behar asked for a delay in entering a plea. Melissa Huckaby,...Tags: Sex Crimes, Crimes, Health and Safety at School, Justice System, Teaching and Learning
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Huckaby to Face Death Penalty in Cantu Murder
KTLA NewsSTOCKTON -- The Northern California woman charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering 8-year-old girl, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase, will face the death penalty. Melissa Huckaby pleaded not guilty in June to murdering Sandra Cantu. The...Tags: Crimes, Health and Safety at School, Justice System, Teaching and Learning, Prosecution
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Cantu Murder Suspect Due in Court
STOCKTON -- The woman charged in the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Northern California is expected to maker her second appearance in a Stockton courtroom Friday. Legal experts not associated with the case but who have been watching it say a...Tags: Crimes, Justice System, Murder, Prosecution, Children
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Melissa Huckaby, Punishment, 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: Trials, Prisons, Crimes, Health and Safety at School, Justice System
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Melissa Huckaby
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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,...
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