Melissa Huckaby, 28, was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail early Saturday and faces charges of kidnapping and murder in the death of Sandra in Tracy, California.
“Just utter shock and disbelief,” Sandra’s aunt Angie Chavez, “I can’t imagine a mother doing this to a child.”
Sandra Cantu was reported missing on March the 27th. And later found stuffed in a suitcase submerged in a pond near a dairy farm.
Melissa Huckaby is the granddaughter of Clifford Lane Lawless, pastor at the Clover Road Baptist Church, and a mother of a child who’s playmates with Sandra. Huckaby acknowledged owning the black rolling suitcase that held Sandra’s body, but said it went missing. She said it disappeared the same day the girl was last seen.
Police noted “inconsistencies” between comments Huckaby made to the newspaper and a previous statement she gave authorities. It was one reason police asked her Friday to come to the station to be interviewed again. She drove there about 6 p.m. Friday. They believed Huckaby lied about the missing suitcase.
Citing court records, the Tracy Press reported 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.”
Either this lady has a serious mental issue, or she is really guilty and wishes to stay clean but all things point at her. Although i believe she is mentally ill. Go take a look at her picture by clicking here.
