NOTORIOUS MURDERS > MOST FAMOUS

Sandra Cantu

By Tricia Romano

Sandra Disappears

Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park is located in Tracy, Calif., just 60 miles from San Francisco. It's mostly a dairy farming community, but has had some spillover residents in recent years from the inexorable sprawl of Silicon Valley. A member of the Clover Road Baptist Church, where her grandfather, Clifford Lane Lawless, was the pastor and she taught Sunday school classes, Huckaby was a trusted member of the community. She would look after other kids for parents. Huckaby and Sandra Cantu's family lived just five doors down from each other; Melissa's five-year-old daughter Madison often played with Sandra.

Sandra Cantu was last seen on March 27 around 4 p.m., when she left to play with a friend. She was caught on a surveillance tape that day, skipping down the street wearing her pink Hello Kitty t-shirt. It is believed this is the last time she was seen alive. When her daughter didn't return home at 8 p.m., her mother, Maria Chavez, called the police.

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1. Introduction
2. Sandra Disappears
3. The Search Begins
4. The Suspects
5. Sandra is Found
6. Zeroing In
7. Melissa Arrested, Disbelief
8. Cracks in the Surface
9. New Details Revealed
10. Grand Jury Indictment