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ORLANDO, Fla. - Relatives of a missing boy's mother who killed herself after aggressive questioning by CNN's Nancy Grace sued the network and the talk-show host Tuesday, claiming Grace caused emotional distress that led to the suicide. Melinda Duckett committed suicide Sept. 8, a day after Grace's show on CNN Headline News aired a segment in which Grace grilled Duckett about her whereabouts Aug. 27 — the day 2-year-old Trenton Duckett was reported missing. Authorities, who said last week they believe the boy is alive, have named Melinda Duckett as the prime suspect in his disappearance. Jay Paul Deratany, the...

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. (snip) 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...