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I watched a documentary sometime ago on channel E! titled "Women Who Kill". It featured several high-profile cases of grisly crimes committed by women. But the story that gripped me the most was the Sandra Cantu case. Pic courtesy of mirror.co.uk The kidnap, rape, and murder of 8-year old Sandra Cantu is old news. It happened way back in March 2009. But what shocked me the most was that the person who was found guilty of Sandra's rape and murder was a woman and not a man! And not just any woman off the street. Melissa Huckaby, 28, was a Sunday school teacher and single mother. Sandra was her daughter's playmate. Huckaby in court The gist of the crime Sandra was last seen on surveillance video skipping down the street near her home at the Orchard Estates mobile home park in Tracy, California on March 27, 2009. Her body was eventually found stuffed in a suitcase  and floating in an irrigation pond on April 6. Four days later police arrested Huckaby and ...