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Mother of missing boy kills herself
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 09/09/06 | Christine Dellert and Martin E. Comas

Posted on 09/09/2006 9:16:26 PM PDT by raccoonradio

THE VILLAGES -- Nearly two weeks after toddler Trenton Duckett disappeared, his 21-year-old mother shot and killed herself Friday afternoon in her grandparents' retirement-community home, authorities said.

Melinda Duckett died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, but they provided few other details about her death.

Two-year-old Trenton had not been found by early today.

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In the taped interview aired Friday night on the CNN Headline News program Nancy Grace, Melinda Duckett was interrogated on her whereabouts before and during Trenton's reported abduction.

She was asked whether she had undergone a lie-detector test, where she was before her son's disappearance and other specifics of the case but provided rambling replies that rarely answered the questions.

"Nancy Grace ate her up," said Jeanne Bragg, a close friend of the Ducketts' who watched Friday's program. "She asked her [Melinda] four times if she had taken a lie-detector test, and Melinda danced around the question."

(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2yearold; melindaduckett; missing; nancygrace; orlando; suicide; trentonduckett
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Is Nancy going to exploit this latest development? You bet. From CNN.com/nancygrace:

>>Monday's show Monday's show

The mother of missing 2-year-old Florida boy Trenton Duckett found dead in the grandparents' home. The latest on the investigation. Tune in Monday at 8 p.m. ET.

1 posted on 09/09/2006 9:16:27 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Transcript of Nancy Grace show:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/08/ng.01.html


2 posted on 09/09/2006 9:16:51 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Nancy Grace no matter how much plastic surgery you get, you'll still be a pig.


3 posted on 09/09/2006 9:18:09 PM PDT by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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To: raccoonradio

Supposedly the show was taped on Thu. at 11 am. On Friday, hours before CNN HN aired Nancy Grace, Duckett killed herself.
Not sure if CNN was aware of this and, if so, if they would have gone ahead and aired it...


4 posted on 09/09/2006 9:19:56 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

wow


5 posted on 09/09/2006 9:21:19 PM PDT by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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To: cyborg
Nancy Grace no matter how much plastic surgery you get, you'll still be a pig.

True.

6 posted on 09/09/2006 9:22:50 PM PDT by Sloth ('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

I work a night job at a postal sorting center and our first break is at 8 pm (ET). They have a TV set in the break room which is always set to CNN HN, so guess what we get to watch...? (sigh)


8 posted on 09/09/2006 9:39:03 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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9 posted on 09/09/2006 9:39:46 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: raccoonradio
The fact that she killed herself makes me think that she knew her son was not coming back.

I know if my child was missing, the last thing I would want to do is not be there for him when he came home. And all mothers hold out hope that their children are alive until the very end.

10 posted on 09/09/2006 9:57:02 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: raccoonradio
Why are you casting Nancy Grace as the villain in this? All she was doing was trying to get to the facts. I read the transcript of Ms. Duckett's appearance on Grace's show, and she didn't provide any information that led suspicion away from her.
11 posted on 09/09/2006 9:58:13 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Angelides vs. Schwarzenegger = Hillary vs. Gore)
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< snip >
"She was granted sole custody by DCF. "

"Joshua Duckett told police he remained afraid that his wife would hurt the boy"

12 posted on 09/09/2006 10:03:39 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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13 posted on 09/09/2006 10:08:52 PM PDT by digger48
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To: teenyelliott

Or perhaps she grew up in a culture where shame and face are important and if you screw the pooch you seppuku. She probably didn't have a sword so did the gun route.


14 posted on 09/09/2006 10:22:56 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

She was adopted and grew up in New York.


15 posted on 09/09/2006 10:30:11 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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You are suggesting that she blew her brains out because she did something to her child.

I am suggesting that she blew her brains out because she felt that she had failed her child. I.e. someone took him when she wasn't fully engaged. I am also suggesting that while she was perhaps raised in westchester, she might, just might, identify with people from Japan who off themselves for various reasons, honor being one of them.


16 posted on 09/09/2006 10:43:54 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: digger48

evil, but hilarious.


18 posted on 09/09/2006 10:57:02 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: Malsua
I didn't say necessarily that she harmed her child. Just that her suicide leads me to think that she KNEW the child was not coming home.

Did you even read the article? She was born in South Korea, not Japan.

Goodnight.

19 posted on 09/09/2006 11:01:14 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: digger48

That is funny as heck.


20 posted on 09/09/2006 11:43:38 PM PDT by ansel12 (Life is exquisite... of great beauty, keenly felt.)
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