23 WIFR - Rockford News, Weather, & Sports  Mother Charged With
Murder  By: Cara Restelli  After a nearly two month long
investigation, Loves Park Police have arrested 53-year-old
Sandra Scudder and charged her with murdering her two-year-old
daughter Esther, who died June 14 from head injuries.  Most of
Sandra Scudder's neighbors in Loves Park didn't know her
personally. They say she and her two adopted daughters stayed
pretty much to themselves in their home behind me.  But all that
changed Monday when she was charged with first-degree murder and
involuntary manslaughter, accused of killing her two-year-old
daughter.  It was June 13 when neighbors say they saw two-year-
old Esther Scudder taken away by ambulance to the hospital where
she died the next day. Little did they know that two months
later, the woman who was seemingly trying to save her daughter
would be accused of killing her.  Police have been unusually
tightlipped throughout the investigation, but they have said
that the girl had suspicious bruis