Trenton Duckett Missing: Police Release Melinda Duckett’s Suicide Note
It turns out that Melinda Duckett did write a suicide note before she killed herself with a 
shotgun in her grandparents home.
VIDEO (Prime suspect)
In the letter addressed to the public, Duckett, 21, spoke of her love for her missing 2-year-old son, Trenton, and the anguish she felt at being “faced with ridicule and criticism” as rumors swirled about her role in his Aug. 27 disappearance. Thursday, investigators named her the “prime suspect” in the case.
After completing the unsigned two-page letter, she left it on the dashboard of her car and later took a shotgun and killed herself in a closet at her grandparents’ home in Lady Lake.
Melinda Duckett went on to say that the attention came off her son and on her. Obviously this was a troubled women.
“I’m sorry this is short,” Duckett wrote in her letter. “Usually I plan things out and am better with my writing. Your focus came off of my son. I love him and only wanted him safe in my arms. You created rumors and twisted words.”
One really has to wonder what the police were doing in this investigation. The idea that they had obtained the toddlers toys in the garbage and that they focussed on Melinda Duckett as the primary suspect, yet never arresting her is puzzling. Knowing that she has previously attempted suicide and had some issues, they let her remain free. They lost their number one witness and suspect with one shotgun blast.
Police said they could have arrested Duckett within four days of her son’s disappearance and more than a week before she killed herself, but they chose not to in hopes that she would lead them to the toddler.
Investigators began following Duckett and considered using other surveillance techniques, but the young mother shot herself before police could get her to cooperate. (Buffalo News)
Leesburg police release more evidence in Duckett case
The note apparently left by Melinda, which was undated and unsigned, was addressed simply to “Public” and appeared to place the blame for her suicide on the media. Later in the note, Melinda wrote that the decision to take her own life was one she made quickly and without much thought.
Investigators said they retrieved the note from the dashboard of Melinda’s car during a search following her Sept. 8 suicide. (The Village Daily Sun)
Im responding to her suicide note she left above it says your focus came off my son you created rumors & twisted words, it sounds to me,that, she was upset about the interview with nancy grace yes she was mentally not well& made some very quick rushed judgement calls I think she has her son somewhere with someone I would hate to think she killed him but then again who knows I hope they find him & I hope the father of that child can raise him my prayers are with the families bless you all.
Comment by cindy | September 26, 2006
was melinda duckett found in her car, or in her grandparents closet? They have said all along it was her car, but was I amagining that the 911 tape relieced of her grandfathers call he said he found her in the closet. which is it?
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SM: She was found in the closet where she committed suicide. The initial reports were the car.
Comment by guylene | September 26, 2006