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The documents showed Huckaby told investigators she accidentally swallowed the blade while sleepwalking. Prosecutor Testa contended the action showed the "consciousness of guilt." Police quickly zeroed in on Huckaby as the prime suspect after Sandra's body was found. Still, she kept up her innocence claim. "Why would someone want to take her," Huckaby told police from her hospital bed. "Why do people hurt other people...because they are sick in their heads...disgusting." She even tried to bamboozle her grandmother during her hospital stay. "I hope she wasn't sexually assaulted," she said in a text message to the grandmother on April 6, 2009. She still equivocated once she was arrested and confronted with overwhelming evidence that she committed the murders, including video surveillance, a witness spotting her in the remote area where the body was found and numerous inconsistencies in her interviews with investigators. Her new story was that Sandra perished during a game of hide-and-go-seek gone wrong. According to court documents, she finally told investigators that she urged Sandra to climb into the suitcase during the game with her daughter. Huckaby said she zipped Sandra into the suitcase and then forgot about her until it was too late, finding a lifeless body when she finally returned. She said she "freaked out" and dumped her body in the irrigation pond. Huckaby still maintains she did not sexually molest Sandra. The doctor who performed the autopsy testified otherwise in the transcripts released Friday. But a judge Friday barred release of the actual autopsy report at the family's request.
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