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2. I hope this b((edit)) is buring in Hell! It seems obvious to me that she did something horrible to her son. She deserves an eternity of pain and torture for what she did. I can only hope that where Trenton is he will be found and brought home to his father.

   Comment by jenn | September 8, 2006

3. Nancy Grace cornered Melinda Duckett one pointed question at a time. Melinda Duckett had only two real choices by the end of the interview: confess and provide answers to the people who love Trenton, or selfishly take the information they so desperately need to her grave.

   I think it probable that she committed suicide after Nancy Grace and her guests publically exposed the descepancies in Melinda’s story, and Melinda must have known it. I pray she left behind the information authorities need to bring Trenton back to the people who loved him, even if it’s tragically for a proper burial with his father’s family.

   Comment by Donna | September 8, 2006

4. this seems to be something here in america we are seing way too much of mothers, fathers, parents harming the people they are supposed to care for the most ,their children. its sick.please if you even have tinest thought that you might hurt your own child in any way or, any child for that matter. stop get help, tell some one , trust me people will listen! yes it will be hard and peole will look at you like youv lost your mind or family members minght talk bad about you, but what ever could be or might be said about you is in no way as bad as what you will feel if you act on your thougts or frustrations. your the adult be an adult grow people act they do not react to their problems.

   Comment by worriedparent | September 8, 2006

5. It is my gut feeling that this precious little boys life was taken buy his mother.Guilt ridden & afraid of being caught, she may have took her own life. what sick person could be so low to take their own childs life.im very seldom wrong with my gut feeling, with susan smith, as soon as she appeared on tv about her 2 sons i knew she was lieing. i hope and pray to god that this time i am wrong and they find the little boy alive and in great health. but if the so called mother did do something i hope she fries in h—!!!!!!!!!!!

   Comment by becky | September 8, 2006

6. Disgusting….. I can’t even imagine what that little boy went through. I’m sure his mother was involved. Hopefully she’s paying for it now. Burn baby burn!

   Comment by Cali | September 8, 2006

7. Now she didnt wanna look guilty or anything did she!?!? I just watched the Nancy Grace interview, and Im sorry, she is hiding something, she was even caught in a LIE on the show. And ended up hanging up before anyone got any answers. If she did anything to her child she was a sick sick woman! As a mother I am outraged at her!

   Comment by Ambz | September 9, 2006

8. I just saw the Nancy Grace show… then I looked up her name and saw this page…. What a bastard… Her excuse for avoiding the questions was cuz the media was treating her bad… well… YOU WERE ON BLOODY CNN…. that was the time to set things straight…

   May she rot… cuz if she had nothing to do with it… it was her obligation to help… and let her rot if she had something to do with it…

   Comment by .... | September 9, 2006

9. Wow it’s nice to see people are still innocent until proven guilty in this country! No one has seen or heard all the evidence in this case so I feel it’s too early to decide who is to blame for this. I know how it ‘APPEARS’ but the truth has yet to come out.
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   SM: People are allowed to have an opinion. This is not a court of law, no one is a jury … its the free flow of people’s idea’s and opinions.

   What else does this really look like? Child missing … mother last to see child according to police … father passes polygraph … mother refuses to take poly … mother found dead in car in grandparents driveway.

   Who do you think the police are looking at?
   Red

   Comment by worried mother | September 9, 2006

10. Well know that she is deceased do you stand by your comment?Although it did seem like she was skirting a round the question.[lie detector]It seemed to me that maybe she did have something to do with his dissapearence.She sounded more like someone preaching a very rehearsed story to Nancy.Not someone who had lost their child recently.I heard little bits of laughter in her comments to Nancy about how the information was being shared between the different departments.
    Hopefully more information will be released about the cause of her death.Although it wouoldnt surprise me if the father had something to do with the death of Melissa.
    Always keep in mind the public opinion has been wrong in the past about pointing the finger………

    Comment by Aaron s | September 9, 2006

11. I just read that it was indeed a self inflicted gunwound in the head. WHERE IS TRENTON. Lord please tell me she left a note!! Please tell me he is hidden somewhere sdafe and she just couldnt face the embarassment!!

    Comment by Ambz | September 9, 2006

12. Terrible, just terrible… I heard the interview and i thought she may had did something. Times just didn’t make much sense to me. But shocked when i read it across the bottom that her body was found but no explanation as to what had happened. If she did do it.. i hope she left a note to where her sons body is.

    Comment by CAROL | September 9, 2006

13. I watched the Melinda Duckett interview on Nancy Grace. The whole time the ticker at the bottom was flashing that since the taping of the interview, Melinda’s body had been found at her grandparent’s home. Listening to Melinda’s less than “my baby is missing and I need to find him” tone of voice, it became obvious that she knew more than she was letting on. Nancy did her best in her frustration to get Melinda to “help us help you find your son”. No dice, Melinda woulnd’t budge. And now they report that hours later, Melinda is found dead of “non natural causes”. Susan Smith comes to mind. I pray they find Trenton at the most scared and hungry but very much alive and ready to give Joshua a big hug when they find him.

    Comment by jane m | September 9, 2006

14. OK WHEN WILL NANCY GRACE INTERVIEW JORAN?

    Comment by Sharon Chicago | September 9, 2006

15. The one thing that struck me the most was the lack of emotion displayed on both sides. The father had little to do with his son, it’s obvious. If he thought the child was not being cared for properly then why did he leave him with her and have no contact with his son since June? Any concerned parent would have spoken to him as much as possible on a daily basis. But I don’t think Dad had anything to do with his disappearance…Mom, on the other hand, mom talks too much. She spoke excitedly, not sadly. Reeks of the Susan Smith tragedy. I believe Mom didn’t remorse because she knew he wasn’t dead. Maybe she sold him or hid him for some reason. Dad seems one sandwich short of a picnic and Mom seems guilty as hell. If the Nancy Grace show prompted her to take her life, then kudos to Nancy Grace!

    Comment by Paula | September 9, 2006

16. what was the date of melinda’s death. nobody said what date it was. was the husband questioned in her death. this all sounds to open an shut.

    Comment by lorraine | September 9, 2006

17. .
    I pray this child is safe but this does not bode well for that being a fact. When I read it was confirmed suicide I had the awful thought that perhaps she killed the child hoping the father would be blamed instead of her.

    Please let her have merely left him with a friend for safe keeping and not have harmed him. If anyone knows his whereabouts, they should come forward immediately as this family has suffered enough. So sad. . ..

    Comment by Mortella | September 9, 2006

18. How do we know it was not a set up the whole time? How do we really know whether Melinda’s death was a homicide staged as a suicide? How do we know her husband or his friends or the two men Melinda had over that night the kid went missing had no involvement with either kidnapping the kid and then waiting for a moment to catch Melinda alone to kill her and throw suspicion on the supposedly “crazy mommy/ estranged wife.” I wouldn’t be surprised if the greiving Mr. Duckett, the one with the grandpa in prison for a heinous 1988 crime was planning on saying enough trash about his wife that everyone would believe his accusations and then when the time was right, kidnap his own kid, have everyone focus on his wife and then have someone bump her off where it was easy to do yet where someone would find her eventually. If the kid turns up dead, then maybe Melinda did commit suicide out of guilt for either what she did or knows or from maybe the stress of everything that culminated: Divorce is not a relaxing past time for a person working two jobs, raising a toddler and fighting a custody battle with an ex who according to her threatened not just her but also his own child. And now this child is missing? Maybe she felt that since no one took her seriously before that she might be next. Beat whoever did it to the punch. I doubt she took stress well. She was always saying her ex threatened her but the kid goes missing so everyone suspects her automatically because he took a polygraph by the local police whereas she took the advice of the FBI as she stated on Nancy Grace. Oh, and I’m sure that polygraphs by the local law enforcement versus doing everything the FBI tells you to do is that hard of a call to make. If she is innocent despite people slinging mud @ her online (like you’re all eligible to fling that first stone) and say you were in her shoes, what would you do or think? Come on, if you were Melinda Duckett and you were in a messy divorce with a custody battle and your kid went missing. Oh, and your estranged husband not only hypothetically threatened you and the kid plus also has a grandpa in the big house because he was a cop of all people convicted of pedophile rape and brutal murder. Yeah, the story that’s out there makes Melinda look suspicious but how do we know it’s the true story? Look @ more details and it reeks of cover ups and set ups galore. I wouldn’t be surprised if down the road it turns out that the husband had help getting that kid out of the apartment while his wife was distracted watching a movie and that while he’s out there doing his thing to the media but having insinuations sent out about his wife, the whole time his kid is holed up somewhere. Then, when the dust settles as it always does in missing kid cases, the husband picks up his kid somewhere and starts a new life far, far away where no one knows them or cares about the single dad and the little boy with the possibly dyed hair who has trouble remembering his new name or the exact story his dad told him about what specifically happened to mommy. So, either she did something to her kid and then commited suicide like all you experts think she did, open and shut case. Or maybe it’s also a simple kidnap the kid, kill the wife and make it look like she’s crazy the whole time because you got enough Andrea Yates info off Court TV to inspire you to frame your wife like that. Like just one polygraph case is all it takes to clear this guy. I’m glad the FBI got involved and I hope they actually do some investigating into this because I doubt that if this case is so “bizarre” that it’s also so simple. It reeks of some set up from a custody battle gone bad.
    __________
    SM: The truth is no one knows at this point.

    So sad that a child seems to have got caught up in a nasty divorce and cutody battle between the parents.

    Children are not supposed to pay for the sins of their parents.

    Where is Trenton? We hope that this has a good outcome.

    RED

    Comment by Shadow Knows | September 9, 2006

19. I watched the Nancy Grace interview in bed with my husband and my first thought was that the father has took the child and hidden him, but after Nancy Grace started questioning the mother and the way the mother was dancing around the questions I said to my husband “shes killed this child!” My husband immediatly replied that Everyone shouldn’t point fingers until they either find him safe or find him dead! Well, I just found out that shes took her own life so I called my husband at work to let him know the latest twist and he replied” I hope she atleast left a note to let the family know what she done with him. I pray for that too…..

    Comment by Karrie Kingsbury | September 9, 2006

20. I too watched Nancy Grace last night. I was sickened by Melinda Duckett’s refusal to answer Nancy’s questions and thought that she was probably involved in the disappearance of her son. However, does that give Nancy Grace the right to grill this young girl to the point of despair and the taking of her own life? Isn’t the investigative part up to the local law and FBI? Have we not learned anything from the “witch hunt” that was promulgated against the Ramseys? Melinda Duckett clearly took her own life after being on the Nancy Grace Show and with it she may have taken the only answer to the whereabouts of Trenton. I think the price is too high. I think if you were to ask Joshua Duckett, he too would tell you the price is too high. My heart goes out to all of the people who love Melinda and Trenton. I wonder when the lawsuit will be filed against Nancy and CNN.

    Comment by Kay Gonzales | September 9, 2006

21. Appreciate this update. I was intrigued after seeing the interview with Nancy Grace…fascinating revelations as the questioning unfolded. I hope Nancy will cover it sooner than the scheduled follow-up on Monday.

    Comment by Kitty | September 9, 2006

22. Its awful to see how this case has unfolded but yet has created more questions then answers. I saw the blog saying the Melinda was dead last night while watching Nancy Grace but I thought that was an error until reading it here on the net. Melinda was obviously involved and frankly I feel that he is dead. She would not have taken her own life if there was some slim chance she could have her son back and go back to her normal life like she said on the TV interview. She realized she could not cover her tracks for long and my goodness whats easier then answering a few questions instead of speading the rest of eternity in hell? As far as the father he is as much guilty as she is as he neglected his son for months and left him to fend for himself. This is a lesson for us all. When there are children involved we must put them first and in sticky situations find a solutions that will not render us susceptible to crime and violence.

    Comment by Tenecia | September 9, 2006

23. The truth is…no one knows the truth. I just feel like Nancy Grace in her attempt to grandstand and showboat for ratings (like she has grown to do in the past few months) did little to help this case and alot to hurt it. If she wouldn’t have tried to throw her weight around and bully Melinda Duckett I believe Melinda wouldn’t have been pushed over the edge. Like the reply to my last message “People are allowed to have an opinion. This is not a court of law, no one is a jury … its the free flow of people’s idea’s and opinions. Thats simply my opinion.

    Comment by worried mother | September 9, 2006

24. It is a shame that you can’t overlook the facts in this case. As a Mom I would live to give her the benefit of the doubt and pray that this child is safe but that seems a little far fetched. My prayers are now for this little boy to be found so his body can be given the respect his life should of been given. I hope the family continues their search for the truth and vindicates this little boys memories. There is more than one tragedy in this case. Melinda Duckett was very selfish and sick and I pray that she made at least one mistake that will lead investigators to this little boy. I am pregnant right now. This case hits hard in how warped a mother or father has to be to hurt, hide information, or refuse to help in any situation involving their child.

    Comment by Karen | September 9, 2006

25. I agree with Worried Mother and Kay. Nancy Grace pushed (punished?) this woman too much! Lately, Ms Grace has been far too abrasive with some interviews and this one was more a personal attack than an interview. She is supposed to be a journalist who seeks and reports facts about cases as they develop. Instead, she has become the judge, jury and executioner. Sadly, her antics may cause little Trenton’s whereabouts to remain a mystery.

    Comment by Jana | September 9, 2006

26. I caught the late night repeat of this last night, and I must say it was a bizzare & confusing. Okay this little boy has been missing since 8/27…and it is just NOW all over the news?? That makes NO sense. Also the circumstances surrounding his dissapearance are strange, Melinda has 2 other people in the house-to watch a movie and they NEVER saw him? Then she discovers him missing? With a 10 inch cut into the screen? Why whouldn’t a kidnapper just remove the screen entirely? Then she says that the 2 friends she had over were questioned, and she has not spoken to them since and has no idea where these friends are. The whole screen thing seems staged to me, I think it is possible that something tragic happened to Trenton and Melinda panicked and covered it up with a kidnapping story. I am not automatically condemming this woman as a vile evil person that perposefully hurt her child. When Nancy Grace was mericlessly grilling her, her answers were very evasive. Which led me to believe she was struggling to hang on to the truth. As far as the father Joshua, and his “lack of emotion”, he still seemed to be in a state of numbness and shock. It is very tragic that Melinda took her life, without leaving the answers her loved ones need so badly. Hopefully Trenton will be found and returned to his family. We as the public must all take a small step back and stop crucifying the father, the mother, the media-and just let them heal.

    Comment by Rebekah | September 9, 2006

27. I made a comment earlier about the situation, I just wanted to add that I agree that Nancy Grace was extreme in her questioning towards the mother!(BUT THATS WHY SHE HAS A TOP RATED SHOW….SHES A VERY AGGRESSIVE BITCH!) She was also very aggressive towards the FATHER too at the beginning but he didn’t get offensive back he just answered the questions and Nancy Grace saw that he was cooperative and open where the mother kept stumbling in her answers and being very defensive! Does that mean she had something to do with her sons disappearence? My husband would argue NO……do you realize how many times in the past two weeks shes been questioned over and over and over….. I just can’t imagine how that would be! The mother in me can look at everything shes said and done and comment and pick apart….thats how us women are towards other women…our daughter is 2 and this hits very close to us…..I can only tell everyone to pray for this child and love your children and try to be aware of other children around you.

    Comment by Karrie Kingsbury | September 9, 2006

28. Staged suicide? in her grandparents’ driveway? you sure are creative, whomever posted it.
    Like the father of Polly Klaas said, I WOULD BEG FOR A POLY, instead Melissa thinking she’d outsmart Nancy Grace would not give one straight answer.
    The least she could have done for everybody was to leave a suicide note, hey, the pops passed the polygraph test, her friends were not missing as she said!
    Some women are not suppous to be able to have kids!

    Comment by Pia | September 9, 2006

29. reply to shadow knows: I hope you re-read all that you wrote and realize what a NUT you are!

    Comment by mike | September 9, 2006

30. Where are the grandparents on either side at? I haven’t heard comments from any family members except Trentons great grandmother…….where is the family support? This was such a young couple and in such a situation family support is really needed.

    Comment by Bryan | September 9, 2006

31. response to kay , ridiculous to say that nancy grace should be sued. freedom of speech anyone? somebody needed to ask if she took a lie test , and by not answering makes her seem GUILTY. she must not give a shit about her son if she killed herself and didnt leave note . another tradgedy with innocent baby caught in the middle.

    Comment by vanessa | September 9, 2006

32. This was the first tome I had seen Nancy Grace. Where was she during the Holloway saga? THis mothers evening guests never saw the baby Sunday night. I believe She spent her sunday morning shopping trip hiding the body of Trenton. She covered three counties and couldn’t come up with a shopping l;ist or the name of a single store she shopped in.

    Comment by zarkonone | September 9, 2006

33. Nancy Grace rocks,o.k yes she was hard on the mother but come on aparently some one had to be! I listened to the mother talk and in 15 mins you could tell she was hideing something, the 2 guys never even saw the baby,she would not take the lie detecktor test, she wouldent give a store to store and time line for shopping? whats up with that?oh and I dont know ,how about how to spot a lier 101 frist rule is any time some one has to repetedly say”honestly” they are being anything but, this women was a classic lier had probly been one her whole life any other time when she got caught no big deal Iam guessing she would then cause a huge fight with the person who caught her and lie some more to be made out the victim, only this time some buddy wasent buying it and they pushed back , every one knows who Nancy is and what her show is about and maybe the police asked her to push?another reason I could tell she was lieing the whole”kodak moment”her tone and details about when she frist knew the baby was gone were flat with pregnent pause as if she was reaching and too much I, me what she was thinking or had been doing lot more talk of her then him and where was the plea to the kidnapper? please bring my baby back ?his fav food is ?he cant sleep with out? how loved and needed he is ? using his name often to personilize the baby to the kidnapper? and the last two things she did when things got too hot ?she hung up and killed her self, no mother would do that who dident allready know her baby was not coming home. sadly maybe all this pain and loss could of been prevented if this young single parent would of reached out to some one for help, maybe she was over whelmmed and streesed out who wouldent be in her shoes? being too worried about the father geting custudy or comfriming what Iam sure some people had been saying that she couldent be a good parent too worried about her self basicly to ask for help, for abrake and having to win over the ex she allowed her self to be put under too much stress and snaped,its really very sad all the way around ,hopefuly some one elas will lrean from this maybe we all can.

    Comment by worriedparent | September 9, 2006

34. I am so sorry about this poor little Trenton that he is caught in the middle of such a mess. If the father was as good as father as he says he is he wouldn’t have waited since June to see his little boy. I am not ruling out that Melinda killed herself or if it was staged, either way I do believe she knew what happened, rather it was an accident she tried to cover up or a boyfriend did something to him and she felt so guilty she could not live with herself. Melinda and God has to deal with that. I just hope and pray that little boy is safe. In NC this week 2 little boys lost there life when they left there grandparents home and fell into a raging river and drowned. The searchers found them after nearly 4 days, then I heard about Trenton. I could never have any children, I had 5 badies that all died within the first 5 months and it just tares me up to here when anyone can hurt or let someone else hurt there child. If you don’t want that child, there are plenty of us out here who do.
    all my children are angels

    Comment by Mary | September 9, 2006

35. How can Nancy Grace be the bad ‘guy’ here? Those parents voluntarily went on her show. And we voluntarily watched it. I love the fact that she doesn’t sugar coat anything and she isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions. After watching last night’s show I thought it was odd that the parents weren’t more emotional and begging people for help finding that sweet boy until they were blue in the face. And whether you personally know the parents or not, you must admit it’s odd that the mother danced around the question about whether or not she took a polygragh test. A simple yes or no was all that was needed. But let’s not forget that the question still remains……..where is that innocent little boy who through no fault of his own was put in the middle of the mess between his mommy and daddy and is now missing.

    Comment by birdie | September 9, 2006

36. It is so hard to believe a mother could do this to a child, I feel there’s a whole lot more to this story than meets the eye. I don’t think Nancy Grace was wrong in her line of questioning, I’m surprised the police didn’t try that first!! I definetly think there’s an attorney out there who will try to make a lawsuit out of this & the whole situation is just a shame, never should of happened.

    Comment by Donna | September 9, 2006

37. Good to see that most of the people in here seem to agree with the exception of a few nuts!
    I have been a Nancy Grace fan for years! By the way she WAS all over the Natlie Holloway case and still has the mom on once in a while.
    When she recently got her own show, I was thrilled.
    You will rarely, if at all find out what Nancy is thinking turns out to be wrong.
    She is VERY good at what she does, which is why she is now on every night. She has with her “bitchiness” been able to help a lot of people, who I am sure are very thankful to her.
    Nancy and I think a lot a like and while I was watching the show last night it became apparent that the mother was not going to answer Nancy’s questions. She didnt do ONE THING to help us help her find her son!
    If I ever God forbid was in a situation where my son was missing and I had Nancy, Mr. Klass, Mark Lunsford and Americas Most Wanted trying to help me find my baby you better believe I would do ANYTHING they asked me to do and you would be able to tell just by looking at me……She did not come across as a Mom with a broken heart. For those of us who truely love our children couldnt be anything BUT broken hearted if our babies were missing!
    As was said before here I would like to add that the first person who came to mind as I listened to Melinda last night was Susan Smith!

    I will continue to hope and pray that by some miracle Trentton is found and is ok. This will continue for me until I hear otherwise. This is very sad all the way around. But if she was going to take her own life the least she could have done was leave a note as to the whereabouts of her son.

    Comment by Jamie | September 9, 2006

38. to PIA-Please read post again, I said the KIDNAPPING seemed staged! Perhaps you should get your facts straight like her name was MELINDA not MEILSSA. Again, PIA until all facts are revealed by law enfocement, we should not be jumping to conclusions.

    Comment by Rebekah | September 9, 2006

39. My son is a sheriff deputy. We were watching Nancy Grace and after about 5 minutes of listening to Melinda Duckett talk, he said that he knew she was lying and had done something with the boy. Since she was so obvious in her lies and immediate suspicion was noted in the interview with Nancy Grace, my son wonders why law enforcement had not picked up on this sooner and if they had, why they hadn’t done anything for 12 days. It seems to me that if she broke that easily during her interview with Nancy Grace, then law enforcement should have been able to crack her fairly easily during aggressive questioning. She didn’t even have an attorney yet.

    Comment by steffanie | September 10, 2006

40. Just a question to all of you Jurors and professional investigators, etc here who know all the facts and intimate details of this case…….just because you watch “the Bitch” do one show.
    DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO OR KNOWLEDGE OF……SPELLCHECK?
    You’re making judgements and you can’t even spell. How intelligent do you think you sound?
    Let’s just put all this time and energy into finding all the missing children in our individual states!
    ________
    SM: Passion of a story sometimes creates poor spelling. Everyone does not have spell check.

    If spelling was the ultimate yard stick in intelligence, I might fall into the same category as you state.

    People are expressing their opinions in an emotional environment … spelling is sometimes secondary. Also, spell check does not always work … as I have experienced.
    R

    Comment by JustWondering | September 10, 2006

41. Although Nancy Grace may have come across as somewhat abrasive, her motive was to hopefully
    withdraw any information which might prove helpful in finding a missing child, from a young mother who seemed to ignore and even “slide around” every
    question posed to her. I am grieved that this young
    mother chose this terrible way of ending her life. My
    prayers go out to this family who are not only grieving
    for Trenton, but now have to deal with the death
    of Melinda as well. God be with them.

    Comment by Amber | September 10, 2006

42. my guess is the police were on to her as well as the f.b.i, and that the local guys are playing bad cop, to the feds good cop. I also think Nancy Grace could of been asked to apply pressure so that they could keep that upwith that and maybe get a brake in the case. I hear that a tip to sreach wooded area around grandparents place came in? that fits with what we know ,last time baby was seen alive was at grandparents,mother was found there too,maybe wanting to be closer to baby? she may not have left a note but what she did leave is just as good. no the father dident impress me either as far as parents go hes not a grand exsample , if this coulpe hadent had a a baby to pull this power play over it would of been something elas. lamp, table, ext. its too bad mom probly needed some time to her self to destress. parentings hard, single parenting and keeping up the gruge fight with ex? Iam guessing she snapped too self involved to say she needed help, would rather see her baby die then give him to father because that would prove he was right, even for a week , so now shes paid with his life and hers.sick that she couldent just ask for help. sicker still that she was so selfish to the point that she thought she could get away with killing her baby.

    Comment by worriedparent | September 10, 2006

43. Just came back to catch up on opinions. Yeah, I get that Nancy Grace is a hero to most of you. Big deal, the woman has a big mouth and doesn’t know when to shut it. By pushing Melinda Duckett to kill herself, she has shut the door on the where abouts of Trenton. It is not Nancy Graces’ job to interrogate possible crime suspects. The FBI does NOT need Nancy Grace to do that. I’m sure they are perfectly capable of that all on their own. Do I think Melinda did something to Trenton? Damn straight I do. That doesn’t mean I get to decide her fate.

    Comment by Kay | September 10, 2006

44. Well, it was very apparent to me whiile watching the interview on Nancy Grace that she was lying through her teeth. At first she stated that he was in a toddler bed, which basically sit on the ground so kids can’t roll out of them, and then she goes on to tell how she looked under the bed when she couldn’t find him. duh HELLO! It is not that unusual for friends not to want to stick their head in a room to see an allegedly sleeping child so I donn’t find that odd that the friends didn’t see him. Quite honestly, I don’t believe Trenton mad it home fomr his great graparent’s house the Saturday before he allegedly disappeared. At first I thought that she had given him to a friend to watch for a few days while sheallegedly had to go out of town in an effort to keep him away from his father. But if that were the case, that friend would have come forward with him by now. I also noticed that she kept talking faster and faster and that is generally a good sign that someone is lying. She allegedly put this kid to bed at 6;30 because he was so tired from their busy day. Then when Nancy asked her what they did all she could come up with was that they drove to this county and that county and then when Nancy aked her what stores they went to etc she couldn’;t name a store. that’s because the whole triip never happened. and IF it did happen, no kid gets exhausted from sittiing in a car seat all day. All I can say is that she was a big fat LIAR and she was finally busted and unfortuinately I believe the little boy has been dead the whole time and that SHE staged the whole fake kidnapping.

    Comment by Diane | September 10, 2006

45. i thought she was guilty first time i seen her on tv. i ve had 7 kids and i would panic if the were missing for 5 min. she showed no sign of worry. no tears. she was guilty. i think she had someone in her family take him. maybe over seas? have they checked the airlines?

    Comment by j.b. smith | September 10, 2006

46. To Mary:

    Melinda had a restraining order against the soon to be ex and that IS why he hadn’t seen his son.

    Comment by Diane | September 10, 2006

47. This is one bizarre case, all i can say is that when I watched her on Nancy, I knew something was wrong i have 2 sons and if either one went missing I would be inconsolable, you wouldnt even be able to understand a word i said! much less ramble on and on not answering even one question, like she did. Concerned parents do EVERYTHING possible to find there children, not only speak to one set of law inforcement, refuse to take a polygraph, and not shed one dam tear while talking about her precious baby. Sick. I hope they can find him, and figure out what all this mess was about.

    Comment by orange | September 10, 2006

48. Paula!!!:

    This is why the father hadn’t seen him.

    July 13, 2006: Melinda Duckett is granted temporary custody of Trenton and Joshua Duckett is ordered to have no contact with the child until the case is heard.

    Comment by Diane | September 10, 2006

49. Mary Says:
    September 9th, 2006 at 7:17 pm

    I am so sorry about this poor little Trenton that he is caught in the middle of such a mess. If the father was as good as father as he says he is he wouldn’t have waited since June to see his little boy.

    Mary~
    See the comment posted abouve about why he hadn’t seen his child. Investigate before making comments like this.

    Comment by Diane | September 10, 2006

50. to kay no one got to decide that babys fate but his mother,and no one decided hers but her. she had all the power to choose and she did, badly. no one on the nancy grace show said go kill your self,please put the responsability of her actions on the person responsable,the mother. that said who could blame the mother wouldent you kill your self if you killed your baby?

    Comment by worriedparent | September 10, 2006

51. Wow, it is amazing how arrogant most of you people are. You come here and leave nasty comments about how you hope she burns in hell and rots… you are going off your own eling or assumption. You people didnt know her, your just coming up with your assumtions from what you seen on tv.. but what should I expect from you lazy gullible people who believe everything you see on tv. You people disgust me… get a life!
    _______
    SM: You are allowed an opinion “disgusted”, no different than you are. Please do not tell others what to do … tell us what you think instead.

    R

    Comment by Disgusted | September 10, 2006

52. We really need to remember that law enforcement is only telling us & the media what they want us to know so we don’t know all the facts yet. I really hope Melinda did not hurt Trenton purposefully. I hope it was something accidental and she panicked and tried to cover it up with a kidnapping story. Which is why I have been saying the kidnapping circumstances like the cut screen seemed staged; NOT the suicide as previously misconcieved. I really hope by the grace of God that Trenton is found.

    Comment by Rebekah | September 11, 2006

53. It is obvious that this woman did somthing to her son because what mother would talk their own life whiles their child is out there in the world with out them with god knows who or in god knows what condition. As a mother myself there is no way that I would want to leave this earth with out knowing what happened.

    Comment by Charmaine | September 11, 2006

54. Disgusted need to learn how to speak and spell in English. Should have been YOU’RE just coming up with your own ASSUMPTION from what we SEEN (should be saw) on tv. And should be a comma between lazy and gullible. Perhaps you should be in school learning rather than being in the internet.

    Comment by Suzanne | September 11, 2006

55. typo.. meant to type Disgusted NEEDS

    Comment by Suzanne | September 11, 2006

56. I watched a little the other night and was completely frustrated by Nancy Grace. Who does this woman think she is?!! I agree with Kay, perhaps if she would have left her big mouth shut, we might have found out where little Trenton was/is. Leave the interrogating to the experts! Another frustrating point was the lack of information about the mother’s death. It kept flashing that she was found dead, but no other information. Surely big time CNN could have come up with more. I had to come to this website to find out anything.

    Comment by Mother of 2 | September 11, 2006

57. Imagine for a moment that this happened to you.

    You child’s father threatens you. He threatens your child. He tells you he is going to get full custody of your child and there is nothing you can do about it. Sure, you are protected by a restraining order (which, at least around here, is not worth the paper it is written on) but that is not going to let you sleep well at night. He has ties to a criminal element and you know you are never going to be safe.

    Then, the unthinkable happens. Your child disappears.

    After a panicked search of everywhere possible, you call the police. Frantic, you tell them that your husband actually threatened that something like this would happen. The police ask you a ton of questions and you try to be helpful, but honestly, you are sick with worry, confused and certain that you know exactly who the culprit is … him, the child’s father. After a while, more police get involved. They are re-asking and re-asking you questions. It becomes more and more apparent that they are not on your side at all. They are not even considering your story about your “soon-to-be” ex. Instead, they keep hinting that it was something you have done. “Where is the body?” one of the cops finally asks, and you freak!

    You run to the media, hoping that they will help you out, but they are just as suspicious as the cops, even more so. They have smelt blood, and it is not your kid or the person who took your kid … the blood is you, and like the frenzied sharks that they are, they hone in for the kill.

    Then, somewhere from the realm of angles, comes a Man. He is from the FBI, but you know it was not a government that sent him … it was something far more divine than that. He tells you he believes you. He tells you what is being done to help find your child. He tells you that he thinks your ex could in fact be involved, and he tells you that it is VERY important that you not tell anyone else any details about anything, especially not your ex.

    But still, the sharks circle. They want blood. They do not care that their actions could cost the life of your child. They do not care that their “freedom to know” could play right into the hands of the kidnapper, especially if he is right there with you being questioned. You must not give away that you know that he might be involved, but you also must not give him any information that could be used to prevent the FBI from solving the case. From finding your child, from arresting the man who took him.

    Now, add to this mix that you are 21 years old. You might think you are world savvy, but it does not take you very long to discover that you are way in over your head. This is not a movie … this is your life, and your child’s life is in the balance with you.

    Then, along comes the biggest shark of them all. But this shark does not attack directly. It slides up next to you. It whispers in your ear, “I am your friend. Don’t worry about all these other sharks … I am the biggest shark in the sea and I am on your side. Stay with me and I will make sure your story is told. That everyone learns about your plight. And by the way, my name, is Nancy Grace.”

    Remember … you are 21 and NOT very savvy to how the world works. Gullible, you trust the shark and ultimately play right into her meal plan.

    Then, suddenly, you are there … in the feeding frenzy again. “Have you taken a polygraph?” the shark yells. “I have done everything the FBI asked me to.” Do you really want to admit on national TV that when the local police started suspecting you that you did not want to take a polygraph? That when you felt they did not believe you and that they were acting like YOU were involved, that you got angry and upset and stopped co-operating. Do you want to tell the whole world that some moron cops simply would not listen to your side of the story.

    You believe the FBI. You trust the agent in charge of your child’s case. You want very much to do as he has asked you to do and NOT reveal anything that could be used by your ex. You do not even know what might be useable and what might not be. The shark is feeding … you are trying desperately not to blow it … not to hurt your one chance that your child will come back to you safe someday … that his father/kidnapper will go to jail. You thought you trusted the big shark to help you, but now you see how wrong you were. She is not there to help you … she is there for blood … yours, and with it, she is going to get the blood of your child and let the man responsible go free.

    A day goes by, then another. As you keep trying to find your child, you see the support you had before drying up. “Why did you not tell Nancy Grace that the FBI never asked you to take a polygraph?” a friend asks. “Why didn’t you tell her that when the FBI asks you to take one you will?” You also explain that you were afraid that the father might also use the information somehow if you told where you and your son had been that day. The FBI told you NOT to say ANYTHING. “I was concerned I might say something I should not have.”

    Then one more day. Over and over for three days you stress and fret. “I have lost my son forever. No one believes me now. No one will ever help me. My ex looks more innocent than ever, yet I know he did it and it is all my fault.” As a writer, I could never capture the depth of despair you are feeling. You have done nothing wrong, and yet the world is convinced of your guilt. The sharks have devoured you … only your heart is still beating and your mind just won’t shut down … it won’t stop reminding you of what has happened … of how your child is gone forever and how everyone believes you are the cause.

    Okay, so maybe YOU would not kill yourself. Maybe you would go on anti-depressants. Maybe you would go on with your life, trying to find your child the best you can even while the world stands against you. Maybe.

    And maybe … you wouldn’t.

    Comment by Randall | September 12, 2006

58. Oh boy Randall you really have an imagination! Let’s not forget this is not just “YOUR” child it’s “THEIRS”. Remember they were both to become “EX”.

    NG did nothing wrong besides try to get answers like everyone wants “INCLUDING” the father. None of the law agencies could get anything out of the mom. If her story made “ANY” sense the officials could have possibly put some pieces together. “NOTHING” makes sense so their having difficulties in the case. Officials obviously believed some of her stories because she was still walking the streets.

    This is ONLY my opinion but the mother appeared to be a drama queen and I think the drama started WAY before the baby came up missing.

    Maybe stick to writing “fictional” short stories. This is just my opinion.

    Comment by shark to shark? | September 12, 2006

59. Randall, you spun me so fast, I about passed out. Are you a defense lawyer?

    Comment by Mark | September 12, 2006

60. Nancy Grace hasn’t been in hiding. Everyone who has ever watched her on CNN knows that she is going to ask those questions EVERYtime. I find it doubtful that the interview “pushed” this woman “over the edge.” I find it more
    likely that the realization that by being so vague she has turned
    the spotlight upon herself, seems more likely. Nancy Grace has
    a job to do, and is doing it. (Like going to Washington to benefit
    missing children, like publicly getting missing persons names before the public, like announcing preditors, etc.) She had no personal vendetta against this mother, but she did expect answers that made sense, considering the situation of Trenton.

    Comment by Mechanic | September 12, 2006

61. I have known Josh since we were children and he is the sweetest and kindist guy ever he loves Trenton with all his heart and is in such shock over this whole situation. I think that a lot of you hear this story and don’t really sit down and think what if this was a friend of mine and what would I be feeling no one person handles grief the same (For those of you who think that he showed no emotions, he has been the one out there with fliers since day 1 without stop). Melinda was a sick person and she had lots of problems. Josh and his mother had been trying to get Trenton for some time from Melinda, knowing her state of mind. We all know that the mother usually has all the rights, especially if they make up stories about the father. I just want everyone to know that Josh had nothing to do with this, and we can all see that Melinda was the sick one. I hope and pray now that we can find Trenton and have some kind of closure to this awful and horrible situation.
    ________
    SM: I think its safe to say that people deal with stress in a multitude of different situations. Josh one way and Melinda another and a toatally different person in another completely different way. Some cry, some scream, and others are in shock.

    Also, the spot light of the camera makes people who are unaccustome to it act differently.

    It is obvious that this was a terrible and viscous divorse and custody battle. Both sides were probably to blame, especially when one factors is the main focus of parents should have been Trenton’s well-being, not their own. Although all too often in divorse that fact is forgotten.

    This is a sad situation, all the way around. We can only hope and pray that Trenton is found soon … and hopefully found safe.

    Comment by friend of the family | September 13, 2006

62. To Friend-From me and my family in Houston, our hearts and our prayers are with Josh and the family. We truly hope that Trenton is found very soon, so everyone can start to heal. Big Hearts, Hugs and Prayers out to you from Houston TX….Josh, Trenton and Family…

    Comment by Rebekah | September 13, 2006

63. I’m no expert and I’m confident that 90% of the comments left on this post are from people who aren’t experts either. How do you know when someone is lying? Unless you know the person, you can’t possibly tell when they are lying. You may “think” you know, but you don’t. Chances are, you wouldn’t know when someone close to you is lying. Proof is the only way to prove a lie and at this point… very little proof.

    Dealing with grief and being distraught hit everyone differently. Some people “shut down”, some people become dynamos for activity, some weep incessantly, some show no emotion and people call it being “stoic”. I’m sure most people would crack under sensitive questions about the lost of a love one, especially a child.

    Maybe she had something to do with her child’s disappearance. Maybe she didn’t. If she didn’t, how many of you who posted those spiteful comments will come back and post an apology of some sort? I bet less than 1% of you. Those who would repost, would use some logic in lieu of an apology. Logic like, “Well if she really had nothing to do with her child’s disappearance, she should have showed more emotion or taken a poly test”. Unless you work with the authorities, you know about a third of the evidence.

    But more importantly, Nancy Grace’s interview may have jeopardized the well being of this child. If that is the case, what a shame on Nancy Grace and the network. The importance of “journalism” over the well being of a child, how noble.

    We should all pray for her soul for taking her life.

    Comment by Richard | September 13, 2006

64. About Trenton Duckett’s mother. Nancy Grace has blood on her hands. All for the sake of ratings. She eyebrowed, pushed and stomped all over Melinda, then pushed her over the edge. Causing the woman to commit suicide. And what makes this an even worse crime is that Nancy will sleep well at night for it. It is things like this that makes me glad that there is a higher power. And everyone will receive the justice that they deserve.

    Comment by Wanda Castillo | September 14, 2006

65. To Mark … who I “spun so fast [he] about passed out” … I am not sure if that is good or bad, but for the record, I am not a defence lawyer, however, you have me wondering if you have a problem with defence lawyers? If you were accused of a crime you knew you did not commit, would you defend yourself or would you hire a defence lawyer?

    “Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. Our side needs them, their side needs them, but as soon as either side uses one, the whole world is screwed.” — paraphrased quote of Danny DeVito in Other People’s Money

    At the time I wrote my “story” (above) I was simply asking a question … “What if this happened to you?” I was not saying that any of the events were actually what happened to Melinda, because quite frankly NO ONE knows what actually happened to her. No one knows if she is the cause of her child’s disappearance or if Trenton was actually kidnapped and she is simply a distraught mother, having to cope with the unthinkable. But is seems there is no end to the ability of people to vilify the innocent in the name of comfort. And in case you have forgotten … she is innocent UNTIL PROVEN guilty. If she has been proven guilty of something, I would like to see the evidence.

    Today, I found this posted on another web site:
    “Police reportedly asked Duckett to take a lie detector test, but Kimberly Schulte, who represented her in her custody dispute with her ex-husband, said she advised her client not to submit to the polygraph.”

    Also, just in case you might not know, a polygraph test is not an absolute means of testing for truth in a person’s testimony. The first thing that a professional polygraph tester should look at is the interviewee’s state of mind.

    Again from the web, this time from a site which SELLS polygraph services:

    ==Quote==
    “How accurate are polygraph examinations?

    “There have been several studies over decades, which covered the validity, accuracy and reliability of polygraph examinations. While the polygraph is highly accurate, it is not infallible and errors do occur which may be caused by multiple factors:
    ï‚ · Uncertified polygraph examiner
    ï‚ · Mental status of client
    ï‚ · Vagueness of questions
    ï‚ · Misinterpretation of the physiological data of the graphs

    “It is therefore important for clients to find a competent and certified polygraph examiner who has established credibility. In addition, the polygraph examiner should also be a member of an accredited polygraph organisation.”
    ==End Quote==

    Just considering the “Mental status of the client” for a moment. What do you think your “Mental Status” might be like after your two-year old child went missing?

    So, let me try “spinning” this again. You are a 21-year-old scared mother with a toddler that has been missing for almost 2 weeks. A trusted legal professional (your lawyer) tells you not to take a lie detector test, and so you refuse, as is your right, and because you believe that to be in the best interests of you and your missing child. Then suddenly you are made to look like a liar with something to hide on CNN by a media icon.

    To the best of my knowledge, that is what happened to Melinda.

    What else might have been going on in her mind is hard to say, but there have been lots of comments, both pro and con, to suggest that whatever she was facing, it was a nightmare. The fact that she killed herself (assuming she was not “bumped off” and it was made to look like a suicide, which I do not believe happened, but I am just keeping the door open) only testifies to her extreme anguish. It does NOT say that she had anything at all to do with her child’s disappearance or that she was somehow guilty. Guilt is occasionally a motivating factor in suicide, but it is not the primary reason that people kill themselves. Most often it is due to depression, or if you prefer, anger directed towards the self. She COULD have been angry with herself because she was involved in Trenton’s disappearance, but just as likely she COULD have been angry with herself for blowing the interview with Nancy Grace. Or it COULD have been 1,000 other things.

    “Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds” — American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

    With this many people in her age group killing themselves every year, she certainly did not have to be involved in the disappearance of her child to consider suicide. IMHO, it was the combination of a rough divorce, a missing child and a vicious interviewer (and perhaps other things in her life we will never know about). Perhaps Nancy Grace was just the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, as it were, but I tend to agree with an internet poll that shows 82% of respondents want to see Nancy Grace taken off the air. (Internet polls are notoriously inaccurate too, however, so don’t be too concerned if you want Nancy to continue her show. I am sure CNN will not be taking those results to mean much. After all, their only concern is ratings.)

    Comment by Randall | September 14, 2006

66. To “Those” out there trying to put some sort of blame on Nancy Grace-WHAT A JOKE….. Melinda could have hung up the phone at any moment, she had a choice……just like she had a choice to commit suicide.

    Comment by Michael | September 14, 2006

67. I agree Michael. It’s clear Melinda had many problems, emotionally, even mentally, she didn’t appear to be stable, I think her suicide would have happened whether she spoke with Nancy Grace or not. This Nancy Grace angle is taking the focus off the real issue at hand. Where is Trenton Duckett? Is he ok? We need to pray for Trenton.

    Comment by CMC78 | September 15, 2006

68. I too happened to catch the Nancy Grace Show. Although she has helped some people she really doesn’t get much more information than the rest of the media already know and tries her bullying re lawyers, investigators, etc., to try and get more info, but notice, she doesn’t get anything more than she came on the show with and she reduces herself to grand-standing like the circus media it is. She immediately jumps on the accussed.

    Last time I looked you were innocent until proven guilty! Not once did any of you mention the fact that there was a possibility that after the parents were on Nancy Grace’s Show there would have been at least 5 sheister lawyers waiting in the wings drooling to get their hands on this case so they could get their mugs on TV and boost their popularity. Why haven’t people learned that by trying to second-guess this case (like many other cases) you don’t have your hands on the evidence and thus, none of us can say if Melinda is guilty or not.

    I have no doubt Melinda was mentally disturbed and out for her own gain, but this still doesn’t make her a murderer.

    It is a possibility that her suicide was staged. I believe there was a woman and a man involved in this. From what was said on Nancy Grace’s Show when she interviewed Melinda by phone this young woman seemed to mistrust the media and who could blame her. Another thing none of you realize that if a lawyer was representing Melinda (and I’m sure one was for the notoriaty) she would have been told not to say anything without checking with him first and thus, that’s why Melinda refused to tell Nancy Grace where she went that day (Melinda said she went shopping in Orange County but refused to tell Nancy Grace what stores she went too.) Her lawyer probably told her not to say a word. After all, nothing has been proved one way or the other and it hasn’t even gone to court to convict this young woman or find her guilty or innocent.

    I would like to add that Nancy Grace made a big deal (with a measuring tape) what 10 inches looked like and she said she didn’t believe the kidnapper could have gotten through the screen and pulled the child out. Dah! Have you even stuck your arm through a screen? Well I have and it tears, so it’s easy to have pulled the child out.

    Even though I don’t care to make a theory on this I find it very convenient that a young egotistical and radically ill young woman like Melinda who wanted to live high off the hog would commit suicide. The police had nothing on her at this point in time. I think this case goes a lot further. I also find it odd she killed herself by one gun shot to the head in her grandparents driveway yet no one heard the shot??? How about this … Melinda could have been shot somewhere else and her car driven to that driveway.

    I’m truly ashamed of most of you and many of the mothers on this board are simply condeming this young woman because you are mothers and you’re thinking from your heart instead of your heads. To condemn someone immediately without proof or getting all the details on this case is not constitutional.

    I have known mothers that have lost children to cancer and accidents and at first they don’t cry and I believe it’s shock. Later they cried. Just because you aren’t a blubbering idiot doesn’t mean you don’t care. Melinda had a great reasons for mistrusting the media because once again the media was sensationizing it (they never learn and they’re like vultures) and often misquote what they have heard.

    Of course I hope they find the little boy, but it appears they don’t have high hopes of finding him alive. Watch! There is going to be a man and woman involved in this one (perhaps friends of the father or Melindas.) I do pray this little boy is found.

    Let’s not fry Melinda in hell yet until we get the facts. I’d rather keep listening, learning and get the actual person that did this. If it’s proven Melinda did it then so be it, but if not, then let’s get the right people.

    By the way, Melinda didn’t leave a suicide note.

    Comment by Marcy | September 15, 2006

69. in the end the only thing that matters is the little boy. god bless him.

    Comment by bethany | September 15, 2006

70. What a sad story!

    Comment by Melissa | September 15, 2006

71. Where are all of the “staged suicide” elements/statements coming from? Especially if the ME confirmed that Melinda did take her own life. I don’t get where people are coming up with the whole staged suicide scenario….

    Comment by Rebekah | September 16, 2006

72. 1) Melindas body was found in her grandparents closet-not in her car out in the driveway.
    2) two days before Trenton went missing Melinda bought a shotgun from a local pawnshop. This shotgun has not been found and neither has Trenton.( The gun she purchased was not the gun used in her suicide, and NOBODY was aware that she had purchased the firearm.)
    3) Melinda ran an add in a local newspaper 2 weeks before Trenton went missing trying to sale his car seat……. the authorities never found a replacement car seat and Florida Law requires every child under the age of 3 to be restrained in a car seat.
    4) The supposed threats that Melinda claimed Josh e-mailed her were looked into and dismissed with no proof that the e-mails came from Josh.
    5) 3 males whose names were not released have come forward to give authorities information regarding Melinda, meeting her on-line at MY-Space, multiple chats with her,and the fact that 1 of the men went on a date with Melinda-ALL 3 MEN REPORTED THAT SHE NEVER MENTIONED HAVING A SON…
    ________
    SM:
    1) True … gun was supposedly hid there and Melinda killed herself inside the home.
    2) True again … supposedly the story was that she was driving to find a shooting range (kind of a bizarre story)
    3) Not sure about this one. Can you cite where they have never found a car seat in her vehicle?
    4) Both sides were saying nasty things about each other, they were in the middle of a nasty divorce and custody battle. This can be expected as it happens every day when couples divorce.
    5) This one you have got to be kidding me … OMG … people lie while talking on MySpace … NEVER. Say it isn’t so. Not tell men that you have a kid while talking to strangers on-line??? This may be one of the most responsible things Melinda did. Do you know how many women hide the fact they have a child when first meeting a guy? Then hoping later they wont mind that they do?

    No one disputes that there is not a great deal of evidence that points toward Melinda Duckett.

    However, we would have liked the police to have been able to put pressure on Melinda to spill the beans in a responsible manner.

    R

    Comment by JUST A FEW FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW | September 16, 2006

73. This story is so sad. Personally I do not think she harmed her son. As a mother I could only imagine how on top of everything else she had going on in her life before Trenton’s disappearance that with the thought that her son may be gone forever she would quite possibly be suicidal. And…as a mother she probably blames herself whetehr or not she had anything to do with his disappearance or not…..Any mother might blame herself in some way. I should have heard something, or if I’d only checked on him 15 min sooner. Some may say “how could she do that….what if they find her son alive, then he has no mother, didnt she think about that?” Well, NO. A person committing suicide doesn’t reason….They can’t see anyway out of their pain. Plus if she HAD any information about her son’s wareabouts I would think she would’ve had nothing to loose by leaving a note. Only she knows whether or not she hurt her child….It really isnt your job to judge her. Show some compassion to her family.

    Comment by Stephanie | September 16, 2006

74. Rebekah mentioned not getting the “staged suicide” and it’s quite simple. Were you there? Did you see her body? The coroner knows much more than is being reported to the media because they want to find Trenton and they want to find him alive. With God’s help they will. Between the police and coroner’s office they suppress information for a reason!

    My brother-in-law was found on a mountain (supposedly took his own life by asphyxiation) and it put the family through hell. With much digging by my husband and I we got the police and coroner to do a better work-up on this and it was found that indeed he did not commit suicide and foul play was involved. They never did get who did it unfortunately because the police just “assumed” it was suicide because they found a hose from the exhaust into the car and his body slumped sideways on the seat and therefore walked all over the scene of the crime. Just great!

    Don’t be so quick to think that someone couldn’t have made it look like Melinda committed suicide until the courts prove otherwise.

    Comment by Marcy | September 17, 2006

75. Did ANY of you ever stop to think that it is confirmed suicide because when the coroner’s office ran forensic tests, that Melinda ‘s hands tested positive for gunshot
    residue? NO Marcy I was not there but neither were you, and while I am deeply sorry for your tragic loss, that does not mean foul play was involved in Melinda’s death. If the forensic analysis says Melinda took her own life then everyone needs to accept that. GSR analysis is a test that can be confirmed rather quickly, as far as the position of the body and bullet trajectory; only the investigators know that. Not everything is a conspiracy. In one breath nearly everyone here is condemning
    Melinda as an evil vile monster that killed her child, then in the next you are saying her suicide is staged. When the reality is you need to get your head out of the clouds and stop jumping to conclusions and creating conspiracies; the truth is we only know what the authorities want us to know. Get a grip people!

    Comment by Rebekah | September 17, 2006

76. Randall- Although you could be a great writer, you did not know Melinda. She could very well have done the worst imaginable that any mother and father could think of. Because of the obvious continuing investigation, the whole truth cannot be told yet. Joshua is having to be on guard about everything he says during interviews. It is very hard not to be able to release all of the facts. Hopefully Trenton will be found safe and sound and be home with his family soon.

    Comment by KnowsJoshua&Melinda | September 17, 2006

77. mothers are to risk there life for there children, love them, be there for them,,melinda duckett was not a mother,,the first 2 letters in her name says it all….(((me))) may she rut in h??????

    Comment by LINDA EVANS | September 18, 2006

78. What about the Authorities getting intouch with Silvia Brown. Silvia has appeared on the Montel Show many many times. She is an amazing Phychic and just happens to be from Florida. Some people may not believe in that stuff but it cant hurt, can it? At this point whats to lose? Just a thought! I too pray for Trentons safe return.

    Comment by Jade | September 18, 2006

79. This little boy is not returning to his home. If he were then I strongly feel that the mother would NOT have killed herself, but continued to dodge questions until he was returned..Her killing herself leads me to feel that she knew what happened to him, and was not going to own up to her part in it, so a quicker alternative was to take her life. As a mother to an almost 2 year old it breaks my heart to know that baby boy has been out there- alone, cold, & more importantly- Dead or Alive??

    Comment by Shannon | September 18, 2006

80. I haven’t visited this sight in a few days so today I wanted to catch up on any new information – things seem to keep getting more and more bizarre……. I had kept out hope that maybe the mother or the father were just hiding Trenton from the other – but since Melindas suicide I don’t believe she had that involvement……. maybe the father did hide Trenton but after recent events he’s afraid to confess…….if that’s the case how liable would he be? In worst case-Trenton is dead- I hope everyone who owns or has property is walking and checking out their property. The police seem to be checking out parks,lakes,ponds, and underdeveloped land. If everyone would just really look around and pay attention to their enviroment maybe the missing wouldn’t be missing.

    Comment by Karrie Kingsbury | September 19, 2006

81. PLEASE TO EVERYONE ON HERE THAT KEEPS MAKING REFERENCE TO MELINDA BURNING OR ROTTING IN HELL OR YOU ARE GLAD SHE’S DEAD PLEASE TRY NOT TO DO THAT JUST YET, I’m sure she has family that might read this or friends and that would be a very hurtful thing to hear or see…… plus I’ve always believed that once someone is passed away let that be enough, let’s not continue to condemn someone who will have to answer for that action.

    Comment by Just One More Thing From Karrie K. | September 19, 2006

82. Rebekah

    Thank you for your kinds words re my brother-in-law. I know for a fact that the coroner does not release all information for many reasons and will often mislead the media. The less people know about the case the more chances they have of finding Trenton (hopefully alive) and if not who did kill him. It is a possibility (we have cops in our family who have said this) that the truth in the coroners report may never be told and “suicide” mentioned by the coroner and police department was to mislead anyone who had anything to do with it into thinking this would be and open and shut case and that Melinda murdered her own son. If it was Melinda then God will handle things and it’s out of our hands, but all of us must be sure they get the right person.

    I am no more creating a conspiracy theory than you are. You have practically condemned this young woman and know nothing about her. I see her as a stranger and the last time I looked one was innocent until proven guilty. How easy it is to jump on her dead body since she isn’t around to defend herself. This is going to be a tough once since Melinda has passed on. I have no doubt her lawyer told her to keep her mouth shut (as most lawyers do).

    I think you should read my posts more closely because I NEVER accused this girl once of being an evil and vile monster. “Get our heads of out of the clouds … you certainly have given your theories and that’s what this board is about. Most people are trying their best in their own way to make sense of all this.

    I have a question for some of you that think she did it .. is this the witches of Salem all over again. Doesn’t anyone learn from past mistakes?

    While many can guess and even back-stab this young woman the real perpetrator could be getting away.

    One thing I haven’t done, is EVER condemned this woman because I feel God only has that right and none of us!

    The hope here is that Trenton will be found alive and well. The police think as the days go by his chances of being found alive are slim, but it has happened often where someone has the child. Look at the girl on the news that was held captive for years and finally escaped. A miracle can always happen and here’s hoping one is going to happen for Trenton.

    Comment by Marcy | September 19, 2006

83. Marcy-I have NEVER condemned Melinda, I have simply said that when she was being grilled by Nancy Grace she was evasive and struggling to hang on to the truth (whatever it might be). I have simply felt that the circumstances surrounding Trenton’s dissapearance seemed for lack of a better word “fishy”; I said it before and I will say it again, why wouldn’t a kidnapper just remove the entire screen? Why cut just a 10 in slit? None of it fits. I have said from the begining that I felt that possibly something tragic and accidental happened to Trenton and Melinda panicked and covered it up. Considering all of the law enforcement in your family I am sure that is a scenario they are familiar with. I NEVER said YOU were creating conspiracies or saying that Melinda murdered Trenton, but I do believe you are allowing your own deeply painful personal experiences blur your judgement as far as the investigation is being handled. You are slamming me for judging Melinda when I have NOT once said one bad thing against her. Did she hurt her child? I really hope not, but it is possible. Was she an unstable person? Only God, Melinda, those close to her and possibly doctors know that. Did she kill her self or was she murdered? Only the forensic evidence will tell reveal that. Did she love her son? Absolutely . Is she being falsely accused and misjudged based on misconceptions? Absolutely yes. I am not creating “conspriacies” I am simply stating that the public does NOT know all of the facts and we should all stop jumping to conclusions. I am sorry you took my state ment of “get your head out of the clouds and…creating conspriacies” as a personal attack, it was directed at the board in genral, and I did read all of your posts BEFORE I posted that, and I am aware that you never condemned Melinda, but if you had read mine you would have seen that I never have either.

    Comment by Rebekah | September 19, 2006

84. Hi Rebekah

    Thanks for posting to me and we can agree to disagree. You have brought up some good points. I think many of us are just frustrated because little Trenton hasn’t been found and as the days slip into weeks it doesn’t look good. People are just airing out their frustrations and trying to figure things out even though we know that’s impossible because none of us have any evidence or the whole story.

    Yes, I did misunderstand your post of September 17th and I guess it was the way the last paragraph started off. “Melinda as an evil vile monster that killed her child, then in the next YOU are saying her suicide is staged. When the reality is YOU need to get your head out of the clouds and stop jumping to conclusions and creating conspiracies; the truth is we only know what the authorities want us to know. Get a grip people! Because you did not use “all of you” and just “you” I assumed you meant me. You have since explained you meant all posters.

    My brother-in-laws death only tells me one thing … people shouldn’t judge until the juries in. His death is not clouding my judgement at all. Yes, I have put out the theory of someone possibly making it look like Melinda committed suicide, but by no means am I not open to others opinions. It was simply “food for thought.”

    I do agree it looks “fishy”. There was a case in Canada 3 years ago that indeed a child was taken from a screened window and it was not totally taken out of the window frame. As you put it “why wouldn’t the kidnapper just take the screen out” is a valid question, but who knows what a person like that would do. If they were sane they wouldn’t have taken the child in the first place or Melinda wouldn’t have accidently or on purpose harmed her own child.

    I think my theory of more people involved in the disappearance of Trenton is not far off and only my opinon and like anyone else I have a right to that opinon and just put it on my post as an open opinion to mull over. This has nothing to do with my brother-in-law’s misguided suicide, but of murder. I think all of us here would like nothing better than Trenton found and hopefully alive.

    I had Nancy Grace on tonight just to see if anything new came up and at first glance I thought they had found Trenton, but it was a little girl they had found alive.

    If what you say is true and I quote, “I am just stating that the public does NOT know all of the facts and we should all stop jumping to conclusions.” This is what these boards are for, to give theories and express oneself when a person feels frustrated and hoping and praying for little Trenton to be found alive. Theories are naturally going to come of it because that’s about all any of us can do at this point in time.

    Again, thanks for responding and I appreciate it.

    Comment by Marcy | September 20, 2006

85. Now things really sound strange…It was reported on the news tonight that on the day after Trenton was reported missing, Melinda threw all of his toys, clothes, pictures & sonogram in the dumpster. It was also reported that she painted some wall & spots on walls in her apartment. I don’t pretend to know what happened, but this does not look good at all. I do pray this child is found soon.

    Comment by oldhippychik | September 20, 2006

86. Keep up with up-to-date information about Trenton Duckett @ wesh.com. Its an internet sight from a local news channel. R: You can see a video clip there of Josh Duckett discussing some facts of the case (LIKE THE CARSEAT) also to reply to the MYSPACE comment I agree people lie about certain facts of their life maybe like how much money they make, how much they weigh, previous relationships, bla-bla-bla and maybe in the first few conversations a woman might not mention she has a child just because she is trying to get a sense of the man but let me set you VERY straight NO LOVING-DESCENT MOTHER would lie and carry on as if she doesn’t have children. Another rescent example of Melindas mother-character is her throwing away his sonogram pictures. Parents throw away toys, clothes, even pictures but even less than great moms wouldn’t throw away an ultrasound photo. I don’t care if they find this child tomorrow safe and sound and it turns out Melinda was not involved at all Trenton needed to be removed from her care.

    Comment by JUST A FEW FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW | September 21, 2006

87. just heard that Melinda did send the e-mail to herself. I watched the interview with Josh where he describes the person that he thought sent the e-mail as coldhearted but he would not say who he thought it was and then the most recent video of the police confirming Thursday that it was infact Melinda and at the end of the video Josh gave a statement saying he knew all-along it was Melinda but he doesn’t believe she could have harmed him that she probably has him hidden somewhere with someone…………COME ON….that sounds just a little too strange in one comment call someone “cold-hearted” and then say “OH-I don’t believe she’s harmed him.” I feel really sorry for him but still there is blood on his hands too…and just watching him he doesn’t seem like the brightest crayon in the box! Largest problem in this COUNTRY = WOMEN – they have all the rights, they get all the help, but then they are the first to cry ” I didn’t feel like I had any other choice” BULLSHIT! None of this would be happening if Melinda just gave Trenton to Josh, but I guess that would’ve admitted defeat on her part and the sad news is even when a mother does do the right thing and gives up custody other WOMEN look down on her for it! You evil bitches out there need to wake up.

    Comment by Michael | September 22, 2006

88. O.K., sadly in this country it is quickly becomeing guilty until proven innocent. If my son or daughter were missing, I would stand on my head naked and take a polygraph if that is what they wanted, talk to anyone, answer any question, go door to door asking people to let me look in there yard, house, anything to bring them back.
    I would personally take Nancy Grace thru every second of every day, every move I made for as long as it took. Any mother that loves there child would.

    Comment by guylene | September 26, 2006

89. Why is everyone attacking each other. Let’s look at the Facts that are true. Trenton is still! missing,this is the most important part of all this. No human in their right mind would harm their own child.I have no comments about Melinda,after all she has a family too that loves her no matter what The rest of us think.As far as Joshua,why is the world attacking him? The authorities have confirmed that he is cooperating completely.Just pray that little Trenton is reunited with his family soon.

    _________

    SM: The only innocent person in this case is Trenton Duckett. Neither parent put this child first, NEITHER.

    Comment by melissa | October 1, 2006

90. Can you say Susan Smith……………………………………..

    I knew ya could….

    Comment by Patty Melt | October 10, 2006

91. Melinda made a will…..Give me a break!!!! 21yrs. old, single mother, no job, just filed for foodstamps and assistance- what could she possibly have to leave in a will?, and it was reported 8 pages long….this little girl was without a doubt Mental!!! I did have some pitty for her family and her friends but boy did they fail Trenton-BIG TIME!!! By some chance Trenton was kidnapped(saved) and he is found alive I think whomever took him deserves an award and I hope Melindas Family and Friends are never allowed to see him because they didn’t help this child when they knew he needed it so they don’t deserve another shot!!

    Comment by KaKingsbury | October 12, 2006

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