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Mom kills herself after CNN interview

LEESBURG, Fla. -- Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace of CNN Headline News.

Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding: "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?"

A day after the taping, Duckett, 21, shot herself to death Friday, deepening the mystery of what happened to the boy.

Police have refused to say whether she left a suicide note, and they said nothing they have found in the investigation of her death has shed light on the whereabouts of her 2-year-old son, Trenton.

Investigators have stopped short of calling her a suspect but have focused increasingly on her movements just before the boy vanished and the notes, computer, camera and other items seized from her house.

Duckett's family members disputed any suggestion that she hurt her son.

They said that the strain of her son's disappearance pushed her to the brink and the media sent her over the edge.

"Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end," Duckett's grandfather Bill Eubank said Tuesday.

"She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this.

"She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurt a bug."

Janine Iamunno, a spokeswoman for Grace, said in an e-mail that Duckett's death is "an extremely sad development" but that the program will continue covering the case.

Hours before the interview aired, Duckett shot herself with her grandfather's gun at her grandparents' house, up the road from where she lived.

Duckett told police that after she finished watching a movie Aug. 27, she went to check on Trenton in his bedroom, and all she found was an empty crib -- and a 10-inch cut in the window screen above it.

At the time, she was wading through a messy divorce with the boy's father and trying to get her life back on track after being laid off from a lawn care company.

I've spotted a factual inaccuracy.

If this were a Columbo episode, Trenton would grow up to become Grace's personal assistant and would never tell her who is until he's ready to murder her gruesome-like. And Peter Falk would have to unmask Roddy McDowell and stuff.

I'd watch that.

Holy fuck that's funny.

I also wish Nancy Grace a slow death by Titty Twister.

guilty.

weakling.

the mom that is.

good riddance.

I utterly despise Nancy Grace. She has one of the those tv shows you hate, yet watch, so you can be angered by her. It is kind of like watching O'Reily or Hannity or listening to Rush.
She spent a month or more talking about how that guy was guilty of killing Jon Benet and then acted as if she was somehow taken advantage of when he wasn't the guy. She blamed everything on the prosecutors and came off as if she never thought this guy was guilty too.

oh, and Nancy Grace should be mouth raped by this man..

as much as you might despise Nancy, this girl was NOT innocent, and killed herself because the GUILT got to her, not Nancy.

Dalen,
I haven't been following this case, my hatred was for her reached its peak with the JonBenet shit recently.