The Sunday school teacher may have been trying to call attention to herself, according to new information
"I should not have taken her from you," Melissa Huckaby says at her sentencing in Sandra Cantu's murder
The woman convicted of murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in 2009 is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Melissa Huckaby's abrupt guilty plea leaves many painful unanswered questions for Tracy, Calif.
The surprise plea by Melissa Huckaby spares her the death penalty for murdering Sandra Cantu
A former Sunday School teacher pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the death of an 8-year-old girl, a court official said.
The murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in Tracy, California, has brought America's Amber Alert program under the microscope. Sandra vanished in broad daylight on March 27.
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a former California Sunday school teacher accused of killing an 8-year-old girl earlier this year.
A grand jury in northern California on Monday indicted a former Sunday school teacher on charges of kidnapping, murder and rape in the death of an 8-year-old girl.
The former Sunday school teacher faces trial in the slaying of her 8-year-old neighbor
An evidentiary hearing is set for September in the suitcase-murder case
A woman accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering an 8-year-old Northern California girl -- her daughter's playmate -- pleaded not guilty at a Friday hearing, according to a court spokeswoman.
Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl.
The Sunday school teacher, facing arraignment Friday in the 8-year-old's murder, has been on suicide watch
As the victim's family watches, Melissa Huckaby's plea is again deferred; the judge seals autopsy records
More allegations surface against Melissa Huckaby, who is set for arraignment Friday
A California Sunday-school teacher accused of killing a young girl may have abducted another child, police said.
Melissa Huckaby is linked to report of a 7-year-old who was given drugs
Melissa Huckaby, accused of murdering the 8-year-old California girl, didn't seem capable of such a crime, says her former husband
A public memorial is held for Sandra Cantu, 8, allegedly killed by a Sunday school teacher
Police are searching for any other alleged victims of a Sunday school teacher accused of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl from Tracy, California.
A Sunday school teacher is charged with kidnapping and murder in the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.
Nothing about Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher at her grandfather's California church, would indicate she's capable of killing her daughter's 8-year-old friend as police allege, relatives say.
Police announce the body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was found in a suitcase near her California home.
Authorities searched a church near where an 8-year-old California girl was found dead Monday in the hopes of finding clues that would lead to her killer.
Police said they are pursuing leads in the death of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, whose body was found Monday stuffed into a suitcase in a dairy-farm pond near her Tracy, California, home.
A surveillance video of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, missing since March 27, shows the child in the mobile home park where she lives, skipping and happily swinging her arms on the day she disappeared in Tracy, California.
Police have found 2 persons of interest in the case of missing 8-year-old California girl Sadra Cantu.
Police in the Northern California town of Tracy are pursuing hundreds of possible leads in the disappearance of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
Sandra Cantu, 8, was last seen leaving the home of a friend in her Tracy, California, mobile home park on Friday.
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