Sandra Cantu Case: SOURCE SAYS ARREST IMMINENT

Posted by BOC Staff | Amber Alert,Kidnapping,Missing Persons,Murdered,Sandra Cantu | Friday 10 April 2009 11:47 am

Tracy, CA- Breaking developments coming out of the investigation of the abduction and murder of 8 year old Sandra Cantu. Tracy Police Sergant Tony Sheneman stated during yesterday’s press conference that detectives are narrowing their investigation in one direction, but declined to name a subject. 

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..We are still looking forward to a conclusion to this, but I cannot tell you what time,” “First of all, there are a lot of things that go on in an investigation that we do not want the public to hear because part of the public would be some of the suspects,” he said. “We do not want them to know what we are doing. We don’t want whoever it is to be tried on television. We want them to receive a fair trial in court. We want them to receive the punishment they deserve there.”

 Over the past few days Sheneman has attempted to quell rumors of an imminent arrest, but this afternoon a source close to the case confirmed to Blink on Crime there has been a significant development in Sandra’s case Tracy Police will be announcing at 11:15 am PST.

Check back to Blink on Crime for updates following the press conference.

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  2. tobe says:

    “Pollini, who is not involved in the investigation, said based on what has been publicly disclosed, it appears Sandra’s killer fits a “disorganized” profile someone lacking in intelligence who would commit a crime close to home and dump the victim’s body nearby.”

    I totally agree, this was a crime of opportunity, not planned. Even the suitcase would indicate the killer wasn’t prepared to hide a body. And to put her in the near-by irrigation pond … those seem like last minute solutions for an inexperienced crime-mind. These are not smart premeditated actions.

    I am still not convinced of Fred Williams’s involvement. Did I miss a search warrant for his house and car? Wouldn’t he know that the suitcase would eventually be traced to him? And sure there are many other people living at that mobile park who have prior criminal records. May be Fred didn’t come out with the right words, but he sure got his moments of fame.

    Who tries to hide a dead body using an old luggage that can be traced, a drain pond that is emptied every two weeks, all this just up the street from the girls home? Think how this is different from someone who leaves a dead body openly in a ditch, where it is quickly found. Why hide the body to begin with?

    Personally, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the killer(s) were much younger than Fred, juveniles, teens, or a young man ready to commit his first sexual offense. Someone who happens to be around Sandra’s neighborhood on March 27, and familiar with church grounds.

    By the way, why would anyone compare Blink with Nancy Grace? Is Blink trying to compete against her? And Is this forum going to be about sensationalism now? Ouch!

  3. warbuckle says:

    Interesting he keeps using the Plural form. As if there are more than one person involved.

  4. Amber says:

    I don’t think she is competing at all…she is just doing a good job of helping the rest of get informed. I think this is a great site with good information. I aprreciate the info I’ve got from this site, I don’t have time to “google” or look up all the information myself, but this site is doing the leg work for us…also including links to view the information ourselves.

    Great work Blink!

  5. tobe says:

    Guess no news conference after all … it was canceled minutes before it was to begin!
    Rescheduled for 6:30 PM EST

  6. Good morning, B.

    I was looking at the location where police cadet Stephen Memory said the truck was parked on the wrong side of the road.
    This would be on the south side of Whitehall Road facing west towards Bacchetti Road.

    Sandra of course, was recovered across the road from where the truck was parked, on the north side of Whitehall Road.

    What’s interesting is that these two locations are approximately 150 meters from one another.
    Close proximity considering the crime scene and chronologics involved.

    The truck may have been parked at that spot as the trees would restrict any view from the nearby houses and the unsub would have a good view of vehicles or people along the entire road.

    And if he had parked along the north side of Whitehall, he’d not have the same amount of cover and concealment he’d require to dispose of the suitcase.
    Plus the spot he had chosen has more solid ground and would leave less in the way of tire tread marks for later comparison.

    He’d not park in close proximity to the disposal location as he’d surely know that police would be photographing and casting any and all tire tread imprints at that location.
    So I think he parked where he thought would be far enough away that he felt they wouldn’t be able to link him to this murder.

    I think he’s our guy the more I look at the psychology involved in all this.
    It fits what I recognize as typical offender behaviour.

    What do you think?

    Chris

    Chris, excellent points, I agree. I would add that although I agree with your observations, the one thing that sticks out for me is the dichotomy of your description is more associated with an organized offender which I do NOT believe this is. Unless your willing to suggest that this is post-haste thinking, a few days breathing room if you will. What lends itself to that theory is the fact that he came back to the site in the first place… What was he doing there? Are you able to plot his field of vision where he was? Was he contemplating moving the suitcase? Was he checking to see if it had surfaced after taking the time to educate himself after the fact that it is a probability during decompostion that the case would surface? Did he just realize there was something in that case that would tie him to it? Was he spoken to by Police that day, or perhaps the pastor, Was he riddled with remorse and someone close to him confronted him with their suspicions?
    OR
    Did he just find out that the ponds are drained to irrigate and this one had just started that day and he knew he had a limited number days and had a panic attack and froze in his truck?

    However we get there, I think he’s our guy. I think we will find out in a few hours.
    B

  7. My Opinion says:

    Blink, they canceled the news conference saying that they have nothing significant to say and said they will hold a briefing this afternoon at 3:30…..

    Nope, they postponed the conference because they have something very significant to say.
    B

  8. April says:

    Are the “he”s in post 6 referring to the creepy church caretaker?

  9. Amber says:

    I agree, I am hoping they canceled to go arrest someone(s).

  10. Greg says:

    Lets start a pool. Who do you think is guilty? So many bizarre suspects. Look how fast the police move in California compared to Florida.

  11. Amber says:

    hmmm…yeah hard to say how many will be arrested…I have a couple of scenarios…all so sad. I could have only hoped that none of them were true, unfortunately we know something awful did happen. I grew up in Tracy, and just makes me so sad and sick to my stomach to see these awful people there.

    1. The church is full of sick sadistic people, and were some how involved or at least helped w/ the cover up.

    2. Williams did it, and pastor and others helped cover up.

    3. Actually too many sickos in that area to know for sure…I just hope they catch them all!!!

    I hope that parents and the Tracy community and communities everywhere start to wake up and realize that there are monsters out there, we as parents need to do whatever we can to protect them. I hope laws become more strict regarding this predators too. I just don’t understand how they keep letting the ones that were already caught out of prison, it’s pretty much proven they can NOT be cured. We need to do something to protect our families.

  12. chitown lady says:

    The cast of slumballs seem to be more then 1. Thank god California is on the ball. Flordia seems content in either trying the case in the media or letting the so called parents fight it out first. Sad….truly sad….Off topic….Cindy Anthony lied throhg her teeth yesterday…And George well,he is who knows…..Im glad Sandra, has a good police force on her side…….

  13. April says:

    Someone said on another website that you can see a reflection of a yellow truck in the video of Sandra skipping. If anyone has watched the video…is that true? I can’t bring myself to watch it. But beige could easily seem yellow, and vice versa.

  14. Rebecca says:

    This case is so familiar to a case from 1988 in sacramento, I have put the link in here for you … http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/20/us/girl-missing-6-weeks-is-found-hidden-in-pit.html

    I do not know if this person has been paroled or not. I just find it odd that these to cases seem to be so much alike

  15. Nancy says:

    Does anyeone know if Fred Williams owns or has access to a beige Chevrolet Silverado truck or a vehicle that looks similar to it like the one Stephen Memory said he saw on the side of the road where Sandra’s body was found?

  16. Marie says:

    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, 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.

    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.

    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.

  17. Good afternoon, B.

    I do not believe this offender is of the organized typology either.

    I believe that he is a mixed-type or possibly a disorganized offender who acted on impulse and Sandra was merely a victim of opportunity.
    There is nothing in his ante and post offense behaviours that would suggest he either targeted this child specifically nor is he someone having any considerable amount of criminal sophistication.
    He’s impulsive and this is obviously apparent in his selecting a child to whom he has no relationship to (on any level) as well as his committing his abduction in the daylight hours.

    Since I am not privy to what the estimated post mortem interval may have been, I could not comment on why he was at the Body Disposal Location the day he was observed by Mr. Memory.

    I could not say whether Sandra was kept at another location prior to having been deposited in the irrigation pond, or if he returned to this location for some reason, unknwon to us, as you had suggested.

    I believe that only one individual is involved in this little girl’s murder and that cause of death will most probably be attributed to asphyxiation.

    Chris

  18. Deep Thinking says:

    IMHO they are working on two suspects. This is a horrible crime that Tracy PD has been able to continue to sway the public from the real evidence. The Bamboo Curtan is a key peice while some of the suspects are not. The bag and the fact that Fred Williams was so well informed is interesting and could be a major clue. Funny he had only seen the bag once and yet he knew so much about the bag? Did they interview the woman who brought the bag to the Church? Were did the items go that were in the bag? How easy is it to lifht over 80 lbs of dead weight and place that in the pond? Were ther more then one set of foot prints in the area? How deep were the inprints? If carring something that is heavy the inprint is deeper and more defined. I also find that the fact they centered the investigtion on the park when the freeway enterance is less then a quarter mile from the park flashes where the victim was from the start. What DNA did they find after openning the bag. Without getting to graphic there are areas that fluids and finger prints can be found. They are closer then we think to answers to this crime. IMHO

  19. “Interesting he keeps using the Plural form. As if there are more than one person involved.”

    Those of us over at the Mindhunter Forum
    (Ex-FBI Criminal Profiler John Douglas)
    Have also been discussing Tracy Police Department’s use of the pleaural form when speaking about the one responsible for Sandra’s abduction-murder.
    It does seem unusual to speak of this in the pleaural.
    But it may just be that particular police spokesman’s manner of speech. ?

    A psycholinguistic clue?

    hmmm..

    Chris

  20. Good afternoon, Deep Thinking.
    You had asked some good questions and I’d like to contribute if I may.

    You had written: “..What DNA did they find after openning the bag. Without getting to graphic there are areas that fluids and finger prints can be found. They are closer then we think to answers to this crime. IMHO”

    One recent scientific advancement in forensics is known as LCN Analysis.
    This is Low-Count Number DNA analysis.

    It now only takes a few skin or other cells from having contact with another person for this method of dna analysis to link a perpetrator to his/her victim.

    A simple brush of a man’s arm across the victim’s body or clothing can result in dozens if not hundreds of skin cells that have been shed to deposit themselves on the victim’s body or clothing, the tightening of a ligature or the tying of knots while binding the victim, spital, oils/secretions from fingertips, sweat, any bodily fluid, etc..

    Whoever this perpetrator is, he wasn’t very enlightened on the recent advancements in forensic sciences.

    The sealing of the bag, if that is true, would have retained more forensic evidence than if the suitcase were left unsealed and exposed to the water in this pond.
    This exposure would have allowed the eventual dispersion of quite a bit of trace evidence, forever lost in the pond.
    Whereas asealing the bag ensures that the crime scene is left intact.
    (But decomposition/putrefaction can alter and destroy some remaining evidence)

    If he had not worn gloves when disposing the suitcase, secretions emanating from his pores could have very well remained on the bag for later dna sampling.
    Unfortunately, liquid environments are very good at destroying dna if exposed for some duration. The tupe of bag and it’s condition, ect., and environmental factors such as heat and humidity can also assist in this destruction process.

    I believe Forensic evidence recovered in Sandra’s case will lead to his subsequent identification and conviction.

    Chris

    Excellent information and I appreciate you sharing it Chris-
    (editors note: Chris is referring to “Touch DNA” breakthroughs which most have heard of for simplification purposes)
    B

  21. mamacrazy30 says:

    blink
    my tower went down thursday, just got it up and running again. poor sweet little girl….my heart goes out to her family. so bizarre all of this. hopefully ca le have this wrapped up tight. between Caylee, Haleigh, and now little Sandra:(…lets keep our enemies close, and our children closer.

  22. Oh…
    And I forgot to add..

    It’s my understanding that the suitcase was a water-resistant type.
    That would help a bit.

    Chris

  23. sad says:

    WHY did this Fred Williams Lying about the Suitcase “on rummage sale” blah blah. He is VERY suspicious IMO!!!

  24. sad says:

    Plus two witnesses (Oakland man and Stephan Memory) both said they saw the strange guy at late 40s or early 50s. The appearance is very much look like Fred Williams don’t you guys think?
    It’s Him.

  25. neversaynever says:

    Chris I have enjoyed your comments and I am heading over to your site.

    Chris do you feel she was killed immediately, or do you think she was held a day or more?

    The Presser was less then advertised unfortunately.

    I believe there were some last minute changes today, and thus why Ms. Huckaby decided to speak to the press, imo, pre emptively..
    B

  26. Pam says:

    There is some current Twitter activity from Imabeachgirl about a search of the Church Shed that is going on now.

  27. Tan says:

    Two things I’ve noticed.
    1. Waterproof bag…which may have helped preserve evidence.
    2. Some people have posted something about a bamboo blind….most blinds have long cords that could have been used to strangle.

  28. coolio says:

    I think Melissa Huckaby is our murderer. Sorry, the story about supposedly leaving the suitcase in the driveway sounds a little too unrealistic. Suitcase was large and if she had it sitting by the car, one would think she would have seen it as she walked to the vehicle again or when she left. The timing of this hospitalization also seems a little too convenient.

    I think they are saying them and they to keep it non-gender specific. If cops think it is her and start to spout we are closing in on him or her, that would send everyone in a frenzy as how often do cops say that.

    Motive, grandma and grandpa were giving Sandra way more attention than they were giving her daughter. Something snapped in her. Jealous, protecting her daughter, whatever. That’s my call.

  29. My Opinion says:

    Yes coolio, and it seems very odd that she’s telling Tracypress that the suitcase went missing the same “hour” Sandra went missing. How the H*ll would she know the exact hour? Something stinks w/her!

  30. Pam says:

    I believe Williams and Huckaby are connected and her hospitalization due to internal bleeding is because she knew/knows what happened. Earlier there were twitter rumors that she was back in the hospital — the same source rumored the church was searched again …which is true and has been documented.

    Pam- with ya. I heard the same.

  31. coolio says:

    Part of reason why I have belief it was Ms. Huckaby:

    from Tracy Press:

    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.

    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.

    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.

    me again. She has already established that she didn’t want Sandra there. Now about the video – all we ever knew is it was Sandra skipping by her family home. Cops never disclosed what direction she was heading or even time for that matter. They obviously knew the time. Cops presumably also have video of Sandra leaving the first time as well.

    If the above statements from Tracy Press are true there are so many things we now know:

    1.Ms Huckaby is admitting Sandra was on her way back to her home during that footage.

    2. Meaning Sandra actually went back to Huckaby’s home.

    3. Cops must have called her on timing of video and fact it showed her heading that direction twice. This is how she knew it was “after that other friend’s house.”

    4. Cops have continuously said she left Huckaby’s house (what we now know is the first time) and went to some other unknown friend’s house. If that other friend didn’t harm Sandra, that family most surely would have disclosed Sandra was there. This presumably means she didnt actually go to any one else’s house. I think sweet little Sandra was bored, skipped around trailer park for awhile and figured maybe Huckaby’s daughter was done picking up her toys so was going back to the house.

    5. Cops have gone to extremes to try and deflect attn away from Pastor Lane saying suitcase was not connected to him, please don’t use media to think he did it, etc.. True, suitcase wasn’t connected to him. It was Melissa’s. She lives at that house.

    6. Melissa left house with packed suitcase. Apparently in a hurry as she did not remember phone or keys. Says she went back in and searched for 15 minutes and couldn’t find them. I think she was flustered as Sandra’s body was already in the suitcase sitting out in the driveway.

    7. Melissa supposedly searched for 15 minutes for phone and keys and couldn’t find them, but Grandma found them?? Ummm?

    8. Melissa supposedly went to church to decorate classroom. Yet, she DIDN’T remember she “forgot” the suitcase until Grandma called her. Right…. Sorry, if you went there to decorate you would have realized as soon as you pulled up that you forgot it.

    9. Church was walking distance from home and suitcase had wheels. If she was really going there to decorate, why did she need to drive?

    10. So timeline is last footage of Sandra is going back to Huckaby home. Melissa exited Huckaby home with large suitcase and went to church in her vehicle. Sandra is “missing.” Sandra shows up dead in that same suitcase. This was why cops had probable cause to search the church and Melissa’s home that night.

    11. Cops have said no report of stolen luggage. She is saying these stmts now to make it look like she really did report it. Will phone records show she really did call the cops? What happened with that phone call such that she decided to do it online?

    12. Profile has been “disorganized” killer. Everything about her actions fit profile to a T. Killed her (who knows may have been accident), panicked, had to dump the body, made excuse she was decorating classroom at church to leave with the packed suitcase, admittedly flustered with forgetting keys and phone and not able to find them. Either couldn’t be gone too long b/c of her daughter being at home or b/c she didn’t really have decorating things at church so dump spot had to be somewhere close.

    13. Then hospitalized with “internal bleeding” Was it stress related? Bleeding ulcer perhaps?

    It was her….

  32. Jaelin says:

    If all of these people were interviewed and searched prior to the discovery of Sandra’s body, how is it that all of this is coming up just now? Are all these tips coming in just recently?

    The thing that I find frustrating is that they were saying (pre-discovery) that they felt the case was heading in the right direction, which was outside of Tracy, and they felt Sandra was alive. They couldn’t have been more wrong. Now they are saying that they are confident the search for her killer is headed in the right direction…how can we be sure they are right this time?

  33. coolio says:

    and now foxnews is reporting Ms. Huckaby is admitting she spent time on the farm where Sandra’s body was found:

    http://www.fox40.com/pages/landing_sandra_cantu/?Church-Teacher-Says-Suitcase-Stolen-The-=1&blockID=263590&feedID=2674

    Remember cop said he’s lived here for 12 years and didn’t know about those drainage ditches and that person who dumped her must have been familiar with the area….

    It was her….

  34. Felicity says:

    icertaily feel that whoever did this has done it before, and will do it again if ot caught. Personally, I think it is Fred Williams…always have.

    Blink, you are getting better and better. Keep it up!

  35. lucky says:

    Blink,

    Your site is amazing! It’s filled with more information about the case than the traditional media. I learned lots of new details reading your blog and can start to put these confusing pieces together.
    These “persons of interests” are certainly no brain surgeons, so hopefully they have already tripped over their bizarre/disjointed stories enough to warrant arrest(s).

    I will continue to check back! Good Job!

    TY..B

  36. Jaelin says:

    after reading Coolio’s comments, I remembered them saying earlier in the investigation that Sandra left one friend’s house and was on her way to another friend’s house but it could not be determined if she ever made it there. That always stuck in my brain as not making sense, how do you not know if she made it or not??? However, now that all this is coming out, it clicks.

  37. mbarnard says:

    Good points Jaelin! Maybe Melissa killed Sandra becuase Sandra caught Melissa in the act of stealing. This was a spur of the moment crime and and botched “cover up”. Mr Williams may have helped dispose of Sandra’s body in return for “favors” from Melissa.

  38. Cares4Sandra says:

    I think this Melissa Huckaby has a lot of explaining to do. What are the odds of turning Sandra away from playing with your child, losing a suitcase on the same day, and also, going to the pond where Sandra was found?? What are the odds of all these things happening.

    Blink, Melissa Huckaby went to court on Friday for a theft charge. Do you know the outcome of that case? I doubt CA has public records like Florida does.

    This Melissa person and her creepy Grandfather or Dad…creeps me out.

    Thanks Blink

  39. Nancy says:

    Blink, has Stephen Memory mentioned if the guy he saw in the truck that was parked by the pond Sandra was found look like Fred Williams?

  40. lucky says:

    On our local news (KCRA) tonight at 11 pm, reported that Melissa H. has been at the Tracy Police Department for several hours! The film showed her car in the driveway! She is apparently out of the hospital now.

    Interesting development!

  41. lucky says:

    Oops! I meant parking lot, not driveway.

  42. Deep Thinking says:

    NEW Ms. Huckaby has been at the Police Station since 7 PM talking to Police about her child’s relationship with Sandra. There is an Ambalance Parked out back of the Station and it is now Midnight. IMHO she is being ask about more then how did the children get along. Like maybe were did the note come from the day after the Dissapearance that said,” Cantu, Water, suitcase, and two street names one being Whitehall.” She also needs to explain her dating Sinclair, as well as the different story Williams had about the Bag.

    I also think you are going to find that the cord from the Bamboo drop curtian was used in the crime. I am just thinking maybe there are three or four involved here. Ms Huckaby was once charged with aidding in a molest case were a 7 year old was drugged. Ms Huchaby grew up in Tracy so she knew the area well. Why were two Officers posted outside her room at the Hospital on Tuesday and Wednesday? She spent time in ICU for internal bleeding. Was this due to an ulcer or a blow to the stomach to keep her quiet? Guess I am just thinking to hard.

  43. Jaelin says:

    It just occurred to me that Mr Williams must have done the disposing, and I hadn’t thought about “favors” but that would make sense as well.

    If that were the case, it would make my heart hurt a small fraction less to know little Sandra wasn’t sexually abused on top of the other horror the poor baby endured.

  44. dddeerma says:

    I only hope that we retain our same sense of indignation now that a woman has been arrested. Did Williams cover up by disposing of Sandra? I feel somehow more angry that a woman would murder a child. Wake up Blink and make some sense out of this for me.

  45. nascarmom says:

    Melissa Chantel Huckaby has been arrested
    Twenty-eight-year-old Melissa Chantel Huckaby was arrested at 11:55 p.m. Friday on suspicion of kidnapping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.http://tracypress.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&article-Breaking%20news-%20ARREST%20=&id=2300718-Breaking+news-+ARREST&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead_story&open=&

  46. Amy says:

    Google News has stories about the pastors daughter being arrested and charged with kidnapping/murder…

  47. Amy says:

    Reports: Arrest Made in Sandra Cantu Murder

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514435,00.html

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