MELINDA DUCKETT--ANOTHER SUSAN SMITH?

Melinda Duckett--Guilty Conscience? 

I highly doubt she killed herself over the media coverage. A mother's best friend who has a child missing is the media. Her family blames Nancy Grace for her suicide?

That is outright ludicrous. Nancy Grace grilled her like the ex-prosecutor she was. Melinda Duckett was caught her in lies and after the interview knew she was screwed. Nothing she said added up. Her ex-husband took and passed a lie detector test; however Melinda refused and would not cooperate with local police.

Doesn't sound like a mother who has a missing 2 year old.

Whens a missing child shen't just pass out fliers. She gets out there anearches for her child. She becomes proactive. She cooperates with local police and gives all the information she has. She couldn't account where she went the day her son went missing. I believe Melinda Duckett killed her son and then killed herself. She was having some major legal issues with her ex-husband regarding visitation of their son and other legal matters. Maybe she thought, 'I hate my ex...if I kill my son, he'll never see him again.' She obviously wasn't in her right mind. 

When she was caught in the lies, she knew she would be implicated in her son's disappearance and took the cowardly way out by killing herself. 

It doesn't take a rocket scie to figure this one out. The focus now should be on Trenton and finding him. He is either alive being hidden by a friends, or Mlinda killed her son.

(Source)--Two year-old Trenton Duckett was safe and sound in his bedroom at about 7:00 PM on the night of August 27. That's according to his mom Melinda Duckett, who told police she was in the same Windemere Villas apartment watching a movie with two friends. When she went to check on Trenton around 9:00 PM, he was gone. 

Police said they received a 911 call at about that time reporting Trenton missing. When investigators arrived, Melinda pointed out that the screen on the bedroom window had been cut. Suspecting that someone may have broken into Trenton's bedroom and grabbed him through the window, they sent the screen to the lab to examine it for further evidence. 

 Police in Leesburg initially questioned friends, relatives, neighbors and local sex offenders. They scoured the Windemere Villas apartment complex and nearby neighborhoods. With the help of volunteers, they distributed fliers with photos and information about Trenton throughout Florida and as far north as Georgia. And still no Trenton. 

So the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI joined in the search. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children also lent a hand by sending out thousands of electronic fliers to area businesses. 

On September 6, advocate for missing kids Mark Lunsford arrived to support the Duckett family. His nine year-old daughter Jessica was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in early 2005. He's working with Trenton's father, Joshua Duckett to pass out fliers in The Villages, a large retirement and golf community. They're also expanding their efforts into neighboring Orange County.  

Authorities say that they're now focusing their attention on Trenton's whereabouts during the 24 to 36 hours preceding his disappearance. 

Trenton is about three feet tall and weighs about 40 pounds. He has brown eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a blue and green striped shirt, or no shirt, denim shorts, and diaper.

NANCY GRACE GRILLS MOTHER--CAUGHT IN LIES BEFORE SUICIDE

(These are portions of interview between Nancy Grace and parents Melinda and Josh Duckett. Hours later Melinda committed suicide with a gunshot to the head.) 

First Inconsistency

GRACE: Would he have cried out if a stranger had taken him? JOSH DUCKETT: Most definitely. GRACE: Or he may have slept through it. JOSH DUCKETT: I find that one hard to believe because he was a very, very light sleeper. I mean, if you moved him while he was asleep, he automatically woke up.

-------------------- GRACE (to Melinda): Was he sleepy that night? Was he ready to go to bed, or did he resist? MELINDA DUCKETT: No. Extremely. He was tired. We had had a long day out. And my son is not a light sleeper whatsoever. You can move him from room to room, and he`ll still be asleep. And on top of that, he is very friendly and very outgoing to everyone. He can walk in a room full of strangers and make friends with people. And so I mean, if he met someone new, he would start playing with them. He wouldn`t cry. He never had tantrums or anything. ------------------- GRACE: Out to Trenton`s father, Josh Duckett. Have you taken a polygraph? JOSH DUCKETT: Yes. GRACE: You pass it? JOSH DUCKETT: They didn`t say whether you pass or fail, but the response was favorable, they said. GRACE: Who was there? JOSH DUCKETT: FBI agents. GRACE: Did you have a lawyer with you? JOSH DUCKETT: No. GRACE: Did you feel like you needed a lawyer? JOSH DUCKETT: No, not at all. GRACE: Do you currently have lawyer? JOSH DUCKETT: No. ------------------ GRACE: Out to Melinda Duckett. This is Trenton`s mom. Melinda, have you taken a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: I`ve spoken to the investigators, and Joshua is on the outside loop of it, and as far as the investigative techniques are concerned with polygraph, stress test, physical searches, interviews, et cetera, my family and I have fully cooperated with local law enforcement and... GRACE: Have you taken a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: ... the federal and everything... MELINDA DUCKETT: And locally, they don`t have enough necessary experience, and that`s why the FBI was called in to begin with. I`ve been instructed to only speak with them, with their unit, and anything that they release to the media or public is up to them. Now, as far as... GRACE: Have you taken a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: ... or anything -- like I said, I mean, anything that I do or anything is in cooperation with them. I`m doing everything they want me to. But as far as details and everything, I mean, I`m leaving everything up to them. GRACE: Right. Have you taken a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: I`ve done everything they`ve asked me to. GRACE: Melinda, my producers tell me police say they offered you a polygraph and you haven`t taken it yet. MELINDA DUCKETT: Well, I`m not sure what the police are doing. I`m not working with the police. But everything with the FBI is being handled. GRACE: Have the FBI offered you a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: I beg your pardon? GRACE: Have the FBI offered you a polygraph? MELINDA DUCKETT: Everything that they have done (INAUDIBLE) and asked and everything, we`ve cooperated with. Just like with my husband, obviously, you know, there`s nothing coming up with anything. ------------------- GRACE: To Josh Duckett. That`s Trenton`s father. You say the FBI poly-ed you? JOSH DUCKETT: Yes. GRACE: Did they offer it to you or tell you you had to do it? JOSH DUCKETT: They offered it to me. They asked if I`d do it voluntarily, that they couldn`t make me do it, and I voluntarily done it. --------------------- (To Nancy Grace) MELINDA DUCKETT: ...I`m not sitting down either crying my eyes out in my house not doing anything or gluing myself to the police department door. I`m actually physically doing things. GRACE: Tell me what you`re doing? MELINDA DUCKETT: In addition to all the flyers and everything, we`ve done -- we`ve dealt with the media many, many, many times, with the FBI on this case, with obviously the chain letters that are going through across the internet and everything trying to spread it out as far as we possible can. Not only that, but with our local churches, there`s prayer groups and everything like that. Also, one other thing, as far as the lawyers go, we have been ongoing for two years with this. Joshua does have a lawyer and I also have one. GRACE: For your divorce? MELINDA DUCKETT: No, for the entire thing. For the custody and everything and for the injunction. ------------------- GRACE: Ok. Josh, it`s my understanding you guys have had a very, very bitter split but I`m talking about lawyers as they relate to the disappearance of your son. You don`t have a lawyer for that, right, Josh? JOSH DUCKETT: No. I don`t have a lawyer for anything to do with the disappearance of my son. (fliers…sound familiar? Scott Peterson?) ----------------- GRACE: You stated you`ve been putting up fliers, where? MELINDA DUCKETT: We`ve been putting up flyers in restaurants and stores. We recently went down to discount and they`re doing a television ad throughout the nation on their commercials like that. Where I used to work we have trucks that go out and they`re putting flyers on the back of the trucks laminating them, different things like that. And even at church we`re putting fliers in the bulletins. GRACE: Melinda, where had you been with him that day? MELINDA DUCKETT: All we had basically been out is driving around. There is something about a convenience store. I don`t know where that came into play because whenever I go out somewhere, you know, I always have gas. I`m not shorthanded with anything. And I`m always prepared for it all. GRACE: So where had you been that day? MELINDA DUCKETT: We had been all through Lake county and up into Orange. GRACE: Doing what? MELINDA DUCKETT: Basically just shopping, going around driving. GRACE: Shopping where? MELINDA DUCKETT: Well we didn`t go anywhere specific. GRACE: Well I mean if you went shopping you had to go into a store. What store did you go into on Sunday? MELINDA DUCKETT: We went throughout the county. GRACE: Any store? I`m thinking of video cameras Melinda. I mean maybe they have a picture of someone watching you, following you back out to your car. I mean what store did you go to, Wal-Mart, JCPenney`s, what? MELINDA DUCKETT: I`m not going to get in any specifics. GRACE: Why? MELINDA DUCKETT: Because I`m not dealing with media very well. GRACE: Well can you remember where you were that day? MELINDA DUCKETT: I can remember perfectly well where I went that day. Just like I have spoken to the FBI with it. But as far as anything else goes we haven`t had very good dealings with any of them. GRACE: Well don`t you think it would be a great idea, for instance if you were at a local JCPenney`s or Sears Roebuck to tell the viewers right now this is where we were. Did you see anything? Did you notice anything? Here`s your child`s picture? Here`s my picture. Help me. Where were you? Why aren`t you telling us where you were that day, you were the last person to be seen with him? MELINDA DUCKETT: And we have already gone out and distributed the fliers and spoken to -- GRACE: Right, why aren`t you telling us and giving us a clear picture of where you were before your son was kidnapped? MELINDA DUCKETT: Because I`m not going to put those kind of details out? GRACE: Why? MELINDA DUCKETT: Because I was told not to. GRACE: Ms. Duckett, you are not telling us for a reason. What is the reason? You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day 12. MELINDA DUCKETT: (INAUDIBLE) with all media. It`s not just there, just all media. Period. (Source)

Family Blames Nancy Grace for Melinda's Suicide

(Source)--The grandparents of Melinda Duckett say the grilling that CNN's Nancy Grace gave their granddaughter contributed to her decision to commit suicide. 

(I gather the lies and guilt caused her commit suicide...not Nancy Grace.)

Now YOU tell ME...Is This a Woman With a Missing Child? Don't Blame Nancy Grace for possibly solving this case. She's a former prosecutor! What did she expect? I feel so sorry for the father...he didn't even have a chance to save his son.