TRUE-LIFE
BEHIND THE BIG CRIME
EDITOR'S WARNING
As the scent of freshly baked cake wafted across the classroom, the students at Westside Junior High School, Louisiana, USA, grinned in delight.
Their English teacher Cynthia Perkins, then 34, had surprised them all with cupcakes that she had baked herself.
A treat for working so hard, perhaps.
Or maybe she was just feeling generous.
It was November 2018 and the children happily tucked in, savouring every crumb.
Cynthia knew she'd come up trumps.
She'd tried a new