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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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To: Petronski; Clemenza

I'm DONE with atbaby. I asked the mod to get him/her/it whatever off my back after I explained myself. Even with her Fox babe makeover, she's still irritating.


41 posted on 09/10/2006 7:54:41 PM PDT by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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To: Petronski
you're a creepy stalker

I know you are, but what am I?

42 posted on 09/10/2006 8:12:44 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)
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To: teenyelliott

Ditto what you said.

Fishy?


43 posted on 09/10/2006 8:14:17 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: at bay

You're trying SO hard. It's impressive.


44 posted on 09/10/2006 8:14:49 PM PDT by Petronski (New York London Paris Munich Ev'rybody talkabout mmm pop music! Talk about!)
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To: at bay

NG can get on my last nerve at times...but overall she's a softie and usually right on the money.


45 posted on 09/10/2006 8:15:39 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: Malsua

Wasnt' this young lady American?


46 posted on 09/10/2006 8:18:26 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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To: Malsua

Why would she identify with people from Japan? Is she Japanese? She could be of Thai, Filipina, Korean, Vietnamese or countless of Asian countries decent?


47 posted on 09/10/2006 8:20:25 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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To: brwnsuga


I have no idea. Perhaps she pulled monkey's from her posterior and set them aflight. Perhaps while you're running through your judgements of me, you'll process this fact; Asians behave differently than western folk. Even those raised in western society.


48 posted on 09/10/2006 8:26:34 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: brwnsuga

Hard as it is to believe, I think it will come out that she killed her child to retaliate against her ex-husband. I know in my childhood playmate's murder that was the case. Her husband refused her a divorce, so she killed my friend and then herself. One of five murders that have been friends or people I knew well.

In NG's case, maybe she is entitled to a little drama after both her fiance and her best friend have been murdered.


49 posted on 09/10/2006 8:28:15 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)
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To: Malsua

I so disagree, I have close girlfriends who are Asian, and they are concerned about the same things as myself. Getting the kids to school and activities, what we're cooking for dinner for our husbands, having good girlfriend time. We graduated from the same high school and have a very long history. The only difference between us is our skin color.


50 posted on 09/10/2006 8:30:09 PM PDT by brwnsuga
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To: brwnsuga

My friend was a Japanese/Caucasian, i.e., his mother who wanted the divorce was Japanese, and his father an old world european type guy. She always put on a happy face, even weeks before the suicide/murder.


51 posted on 09/10/2006 11:06:18 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)
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To: at bay

wow

You're right up there with Clinton in the dead friends category! And a bigger victim than Ms. Graceless! I didn't know that was possible....


52 posted on 09/15/2006 7:29:39 PM PDT by Jrabbit (Scuse me??)
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To: Jrabbit

Sad that a few posters are really classless pieces of garbage.


53 posted on 09/18/2006 2:06:49 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)
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To: All

Has anyone heard any news about the search for Trenton Duckett?


54 posted on 09/18/2006 7:13:02 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: uncitizen

It doesn't sound good. As of earlier tonight ...

http://www.local6.com/news/9876601/detail.html

"The Marion County Sheriff's Office asked the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to catch at least one large alligator in an area where crews are searching for a missing boy, according to a news release."

"Authorities continued their fourth day of searching near Farles Lake in the Ocala National Forest for 2-year-old Trenton Duckett."


55 posted on 09/18/2006 11:50:00 PM PDT by Karson
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To: Karson; All

Have you heard NG tonite say that Trenton's toys, toy box, baby pictures, etc were found in a dumpster of their apt bldg?

And that she painted some room or rooms in the house recently. They didn't indicate if it was before or after the baby disappeared.

These things are confirmed by the cops.

I put this together with the information that some of her friends didn't even know she had a child. And extrapolate out to a theory that maybe she was covering up evidence of a child because there may have been a guy she liked and wanted to get involved with who she didn't think would be interested in her if she had a child. Is that too much of a stretch?


56 posted on 09/20/2006 5:25:58 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: uncitizen

Not at all a stretch.


57 posted on 09/20/2006 9:10:51 PM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Schmidt, CEO Google)
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To: at bay

Today on NG they also showed some of the items on Melindas blog. In early July she said something like. "I'm sick today. Bad news". And in subsequent blogs she complained about being sick in the morning and lots of times she complained about having stomach aches and feeling very sick. So maybe she was pregnant. This adds some more to my theory that there was another guy in the picture.

They (on NG) were talking about whether or not an autopsy would show if she was pregnant. And they speculated if the sonogram picture that was thrown in the dumpster was of Trenton or if it could've been a current pregnancy.

Hasn't Melinda been buried already?


58 posted on 09/20/2006 9:33:35 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: uncitizen

I-Team: Trenton Duckett's Toys, Pictures Found In Trash

Law enforcement officials told the WESH 2 I-Team that police found freshly painted walls in some places, and in the back of the building, trash that was allegedly thrown out of Duckett's apartment was filled with Trenton's toys.

But what grabbed investigators' attention was pictures, officials said. They said a lot of pictures of Trenton, including the sonogram printout from when Duckett was pregnant, were all thrown away in the trash.

Read the rest of the article here ... it's so sad!

http://www.wesh.com/news/9885228/detail.html


59 posted on 09/21/2006 12:27:50 AM PDT by Karson
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To: teenyelliott


Police release mother's suicide note



http://tinyurl.com/o357g


60 posted on 09/24/2006 6:18:57 PM PDT by kcvl
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