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 8-year-old girl.
Archive for May, 2009
Huckaby charged in ‘Jane Doe’ poisoning
Police: Mom did CPR on boy, then killed him
A 23-year-old woman suffocated her son, had second thoughts and revived him, “and then decided to go forward with that original act she had started to commit,” Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Chief Ray Schultz said. She then buried his body beneath the sand of a playground, he said.
Suspect called ‘baby killer’ outside court
Bystanders shouted “murderer” and “baby killer” as a southwestern Illinois man was brought into court for arraignment in the slayings of his 31-year-old wife and their two boys. Christopher Coleman pleaded not guilty and is being held without bond.
Student’s body surfaced 65 miles down river
Cold Case: Alana “Laney” Gwinner, a 23-year-old accounting student at the University of Cincinnati, disappeared on December 9, 1997, after a night out bowling with friends. Her body surfaced a months later about 65 miles down the Ohio River. Her car is still missing.
Alabama cops fired over on-camera beating
Five police officers brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later.
Suspects named in boy’s kidnapping
Briant Rodriguez, 3, remains in a hospital bed, fatigued and malnourished 15 days after being kidnapped at gunpoint and then dumped on the streets of Mexico. Authorities identified two suspects, Liberato Vega, 30, and Israel Moreno, 28. Both are illegal immigrants with criminal records, police said.
Feds run nation’s only legal pot farm
The U.S. government keeps the nation’s largest legal marijuana stash on the campus of the University of Mississippi, where researchers test various strains of cannabis for potency. Double fences, locked doors and guard towers protect the cultivted marijuana plants inside from a world where marijuana is plentiful.
Drug war bleeds across border
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera is the most wanted man in Mexico. The U.S. considers the Sinaloa cartel leader a threat to national security. Authorities say his quest to control the flow of drugs across the border is behind the cartel violence spilling into some U.S. cities.
Abducted California boy, 3, found in Mexico
A 3-year-old boy who was taken at gunpoint from his California home nearly two weeks ago has been found in Mexico, authorities said Saturday. Briant Rodriguez had been missing since May 3, when two men armed with handguns burst into his family’s home and tied him up — along with his mother and four siblings.
Haleigh’s dad: ‘She’s still out there somewhere’
More than three months after 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappeared from her home in Satsuma, Florida, her father has turned to the Web. Ron Cummings begged anyone with information to call police and urged, “Haleigh, if you are watching, baby I love you, and we are still looking for you.”
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