Sandra Cantu #2 4/09/09 - 4/15/09

[Tracygirl]

Tracygirl, have you gone or will you be going to the memorial site if there still is one?  (I know they requested that people stop leaving things outside of the mobile home park, but I thought they gave an alternate location where people could leave sentiments for her and her family.)

Thanks for letting us know about the lack of activity at Williams', etc. 

I did go to the memorial on Tuesday evening (I think it was tuesday). It was overwhelmingly huge! The mood was very somber. The only sounds heared were people praying or occasionally someone would start to sob. It was very emotional. One thing that bothered me though was the news camera's were a little invasive. They would walk through the crowd and film or ask questions. I just moved away.

I took a stuffed animal and signed one of the posters. As far as I know the family has asked for people to not leave anymore items at the site under the tree as it is too difficult for them when they drive by. Every once in awhile people will bring something though... I am planning on attending next Thursday's memorial at the high school.

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any more info? I heard HLN say that it could be significant but nothing since then....

dang again .....
thanks for all the info everyone...

[Tamikosmom]

Detectives to Announce 'Significant Lead' in Sandra Cantu Murder
Friday, April 10, 2009

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514042,00.html

[no rose colored glasses]

Detectives to Announce 'Significant Lead' in Sandra Cantu Murder
Friday, April 10, 2009

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514042,00.html

Thanks and a Happy Easter to you and your family.

[Tamikosmom]

Detectives to Announce 'Significant Lead' in Sandra Cantu Murder
Friday, April 10, 2009

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514042,00.html

Thanks and a Happy Easter to you and your family.

Thank you no rose colored glasses.

... and a joyful Easter celebration to your and yours.

Janet

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THE EASTER STORY - THE GRAVE COULD NOT HOLD HIM

HE IS RISEN - HE IS RISEN INDEED!!

Luke 24: 1-8

1-3  At the crack of dawn on Sunday, the women came to the tomb carrying the burial spices they had prepared. They found the entrance stone rolled back from the tomb, so they walked in. But once inside, they couldn't find the body of the Master Jesus.
 
4-8  They were puzzled, wondering what to make of this. Then, out of nowhere it seemed, two men, light cascading over them, stood there. The women were awestruck and bowed down in worship. The men said, "Why are you looking for the Living One in a cemetery? He is not here, but raised up. Remember how he told you when you were still back in Galilee that he had to be handed over to sinners, be killed on a cross, and in three days rise up?" Then they remembered Jesus' words.

[Cappuccino]

I just heard it on HLN too & came over to check in....I hope it is very significant and they catch this B@$++++.    I'll be here with yas for the presser, 3:30 pacific so that's 6:30 eastern 5:30 central, correct?

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I just heard it on HLN too & came over to check in....I hope it is very significant and they catch this B@$++++.    I'll be here with yas for the presser, 3:30 pacific so that's 6:30 eastern 5:30 central, correct?

crap...I will be out to dinner....
I am listening to HLN right now...said silver silverado seen at the scene by the cadet...thinking this could be the significant clue..Don Clark thinks that the news conference will be something significant....
are you all watching HLN?

Edit~ to correct vehicle type

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I just heard it on HLN too & came over to check in....I hope it is very significant and they catch this B@$++++.    I'll be here with yas for the presser, 3:30 pacific so that's 6:30 eastern 5:30 central, correct?

crap...I will be out to dinner....
I am listening to HLN right now...said silver desperado seen at the scene by the cadet...thinking this could be the significant clue..Don Clark thinks that the news conference will be something significant....
are you all watching HLN?

sorry, should have been silverado...

[Tracygirl]

Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

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Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

[Tracygirl]

Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

I know I don't even know where to start with this story. Who is she married too? She says she is not the same person as the one with the record??? Phone number and address is the same??

[klaasend]

Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

Woman in mobile home park reported missing suitcase
by Jennifer Wadsworth
04.10.09 - 04:01 pm

Police guard entrance of the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where Sandra Cantu lived. Glenn Moore/Tracy Pressslideshow

A flier made up before Sandra's body was found in a suitcase this week. Contributed.slideshow 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, charcoal-trimmed and has an Eddie Bauer logo on the front.

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. Huckaby has lived there, too, for a year with her grandparents Clifford Lane and Connie Lawless, after having moved up from Southern California, 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.

“There’s been a lot of speculation on the news about what happened to my suitcase,” she said today. “It’s not my grandfather’s. It’s mine, and someone took it.”

Huckaby teaches Sunday school at Clover Road Baptist Church, her grandfather’s church just down the street from the mobile home park. She spruces up the church classroom every few months, she said, and had packed up in the suitcase with everything she needed to re-do the room that day. (Really?  So why did Williams say it was for a rummage sale?)

Sandra had come over earlier and asked to play with her 5-year-old daughter, Huckaby said. But Huckaby didn’t want her daughter to play because she had to pick up her toys. So Sandra left for another friend’s house. Eighteen 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. (so she was heading towards Huckaby/Lawless home)

After Sandra left, her oldest sister 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.

Huckaby then set the packed suitcase on the driveway by her dark purple Kia SUV — the same one FBI agents and Tracy police detectives towed and searched Tuesday night. But she forgot her cell phone and keys inside the house, so she went back in for about 15 minutes to find them. She couldn’t, so she picked up the spare key and left.

She forgot about the suitcase and left it on the driveway.

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.

Her grandfather — who police also questioned — has had tools stolen from his home there, she said, and she had heard of petty theft and vandalism at the park all the time. So she said she wasn’t surprised when she discovered her suitcase gone.

But by the time she had time to file a stolen property report police had already started knocking on everyone’s door, asking about Sandra.

“They asked me if I noticed anything suspicious, so of course I told them about my missing suitcase,” Huckaby said.

Police questioned her and she said she gave them permission to search her car for evidence, too.

Huckaby has spent several days since last week in the intensive care unit at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital for “internal bleeding,” though she refused to say exactly what condition she was admitted for. She was released Thursday morning, she said.

Police had interviewed her at the hospital.

“It’s where I was, and I told them that’s where I was, so they came just because they had a few questions to ask me about what I know,” she said.

Dispatchers said over the police scanner on Tuesday that officers were “changing detail” at the hospital, where they had evidently been stationed for several hours.

Court records show a 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby pleaded no contest on Jan. 9 to a felony charge of second degree commercial burglary and a misdemeanor charge of petty theft with prior theft/burglary/robbery. The criminal complaint says she was locked up in Los Angeles County for conviction of petty theft in November 2006 and that she tried to steal something from Target in November last year.

The complaint says she’s on probation in San Joaquin County and is due back in court on April 17, when she might be sentenced.

The documents list the woman’s address as 812 W. Clover Road, Space No. 57, which city property records show is owned by Clifford Lane Lawless and Connie Lawless.

The Melissa Huckaby interviewed today said that’s not her.

Asked why the address and cell phone number in the court documents match her own, she said she has no idea.

“I don’t know what to say,” she said. “That’s not me.”

Police refuse to comment publicly on any details about the murder case, including Huckaby’s narrative.

Police have scheduled a press conference for 3:30 today after cancelling two this morning.

No arrests have been made, and no suspects named, though hundreds of people have been questioned.

• Contact Tracy Press reporter Jennifer Wadsworth at 830-4225 or jwadsworth@tracypress.com.

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Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

I know I don't even know where to start with this story. Who is she married too? She says she is not the same person as the one with the record??? Phone number and address is the same??

dunno...very strange indeed....I have a lot of questions in my mind about all of this...

[no rose colored glasses]

Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

I know I don't even know where to start with this story. Who is she married too? She says she is not the same person as the one with the record??? Phone number and address is the same??

Now this is really interesting. 

[Tracygirl]

Melissa huckaby's suitcase? Strange story

http://www.tracypress.com/pages/full_story?article-Woman%20in%20mobile%20home%20park%20reported%20missing%20suitcase%20=&page_label=home&id=2298054-Woman+in+mobile+home+park+reported+missing+suitcase&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

very strange...

Woman in mobile home park reported missing suitcase
by Jennifer Wadsworth
04.10.09 - 04:01 pm

Police guard entrance of the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park where Sandra Cantu lived. Glenn Moore/Tracy Pressslideshow

A flier made up before Sandra's body was found in a suitcase this week. Contributed.slideshow 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, charcoal-trimmed and has an Eddie Bauer logo on the front.

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. Huckaby has lived there, too, for a year with her grandparents Clifford Lane and Connie Lawless, after having moved up from Southern California, 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.

“There’s been a lot of speculation on the news about what happened to my suitcase,” she said today. “It’s not my grandfather’s. It’s mine, and someone took it.”

Huckaby teaches Sunday school at Clover Road Baptist Church, her grandfather’s church just down the street from the mobile home park. She spruces up the church classroom every few months, she said, and had packed up in the suitcase with everything she needed to re-do the room that day. (Really?  So why did Williams say it was for a rummage sale?)

Sandra had come over earlier and asked to play with her 5-year-old daughter, Huckaby said. But Huckaby didn’t want her daughter to play because she had to pick up her toys. So Sandra left for another friend’s house. Eighteen 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. (so she was heading towards Huckaby/Lawless home)

After Sandra left, her oldest sister 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.

Huckaby then set the packed suitcase on the driveway by her dark purple Kia SUV — the same one FBI agents and Tracy police detectives towed and searched Tuesday night. But she forgot her cell phone and keys inside the house, so she went back in for about 15 minutes to find them. She couldn’t, so she picked up the spare key and left.

She forgot about the suitcase and left it on the driveway.

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.

Her grandfather — who police also questioned — has had tools stolen from his home there, she said, and she had heard of petty theft and vandalism at the park all the time. So she said she wasn’t surprised when she discovered her suitcase gone.

But by the time she had time to file a stolen property report police had already started knocking on everyone’s door, asking about Sandra.

“They asked me if I noticed anything suspicious, so of course I told them about my missing suitcase,” Huckaby said.

Police questioned her and she said she gave them permission to search her car for evidence, too.

Huckaby has spent several days since last week in the intensive care unit at Sutter Tracy Community Hospital for “internal bleeding,” though she refused to say exactly what condition she was admitted for. She was released Thursday morning, she said.

Police had interviewed her at the hospital.

“It’s where I was, and I told them that’s where I was, so they came just because they had a few questions to ask me about what I know,” she said.

Dispatchers said over the police scanner on Tuesday that officers were “changing detail” at the hospital, where they had evidently been stationed for several hours.

Court records show a 28-year-old Melissa Huckaby pleaded no contest on Jan. 9 to a felony charge of second degree commercial burglary and a misdemeanor charge of petty theft with prior theft/burglary/robbery. The criminal complaint says she was locked up in Los Angeles County for conviction of petty theft in November 2006 and that she tried to steal something from Target in November last year.

The complaint says she’s on probation in San Joaquin County and is due back in court on April 17, when she might be sentenced.

The documents list the woman’s address as 812 W. Clover Road, Space No. 57, which city property records show is owned by Clifford Lane Lawless and Connie Lawless.

The Melissa Huckaby interviewed today said that’s not her.

Asked why the address and cell phone number in the court documents match her own, she said she has no idea.

“I don’t know what to say,” she said. “That’s not me.”

Police refuse to comment publicly on any details about the murder case, including Huckaby’s narrative.

Police have scheduled a press conference for 3:30 today after cancelling two this morning.

No arrests have been made, and no suspects named, though hundreds of people have been questioned.

• Contact Tracy Press reporter Jennifer Wadsworth at 830-4225 or jwadsworth@tracypress.com.

So if everything she was going to use was in the suitcase, it seems when she arrived there she would have noticed it gone, turned around and went back? Why would you put either cleaning items or extra classroom supplies into a $200 suitcase? She asked for her dd to be watched for 15, who can clean a classroom in 15 min? Ok there is more but you get my point, this story does not add up.

I say she is covering for the person who wished to borrow this suitcase. She was asked to place it on her driveway, she did, they picked it up. 

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It's no wonder they searched that church!

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don't think I am being snobbish, but do you really think that she would have a $200 suitcase that she would just leave at the end of a driveway? that is a lot of money to pay for a suitcase imo...my husband buys  expensive suitcases but he travels a lot and needs something that will sustain loading and unloading from an airplane....does she travel a lot?
I have yet to ever put cleaning supplies in a suitcase....call me crazy...

[Edward]

William and Mellisa are connected together by the church ..

[Tracygirl]

So I suppose this maybe why they searched the church and the home after finding the suitcase?

[k9ohana]

Woah 
I had not read that yet. Way too many coincidences for me. Sandra headed back to the Huckaby place, the suitcase, the supposed "theft", the Lawless/Williams/Huckaby connection with the church. Too many connections too much in common.