Posted on 09/13/2006 1:30:45 PM PDT by Babu
LEESBURG -- The plight of missing 2-year-old Trenton Duckett is the latest cause taken up by ex-prosecutor and national talk-show host Nancy Grace, who frequently uses her cable forum to draw attention to abduction cases.
But the Headline News host found herself answering Monday whether she had become part of the story -- only days after grilling the boy's mother in a televised interview. The day after that probing series of questions, Melinda Duckett killed herself.
"I do not feel our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett," Grace said on the air Monday.
Grace also noted that "Melinda committed suicide before that interview ever aired."
Melinda Duckett's family members have said the publicity surrounding the case may have added to her stress in the days before her suicide.
The ex-prosecutor demanded details, including the names and locations of the stores where Melinda Duckett said she had taken her son shopping in Lake and Orange counties.
Grace declined to be interviewed Tuesday but issued a statement by e-mail.
"We feel a responsibility to bring attention to this case in the hopes of helping find Trenton Duckett, who remains missing. Our goal in our continuing coverage of Trenton's disappearance is to enlist the public's help in finding him," Grace's statement read. "While Ms. Duckett's death is an extremely sad development, we remain hopeful that Trenton will be found safe, and we will continue to cover the case until it is solved."
Grace, who has helped publicize the cases of Natalee Holloway, JonBenet Ramsey and other youthful crime victims, featured Trenton Duckett's case twice in the past few days. She questioned Melinda Duckett during a taped interview Thursday.
Melinda Duckett committed suicide at her grandparents' home in The Villages the next day.
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Passion isn't a license to be an arse. She is an arse.
Neither of those articles is particularly flattering to nancy grace, but they're both probably pretty accurate.
It's free publicity and a dose of notoriety - those are important reagents of modern media alchemy!
That is certainly not impossible but the situation is almost a formula divorce- husband abducts and kills scenario. Badgering hell out of a woman who is probably emotionally full of cracks already because of her missing child, regardless of whether she is the agent of the disapppearance or not, seems calculated to reach such a result as did, in fact, occur. Killing off thelady certainly does not bring solution to the mystery any closer and may make it more difficlt or impossible.
It seems unlikely to me that the mother would have committed suicide if she believed her son to be just missing and there was hope of finding him. If she already knew he was dead however...
"Nobody made her do the show," he said. "Nobody made her do anything."
Sane thinking. How refreshing.
Maybe she does--we would have been better off if she were alive and able to tell us he is, though, wouldn't we?
Maybe she killed herself because A. her child is missing; B. she was stunned and wounded by the brutality of Grace's inquisition; and C. the two together were more than a young woman in the middle of a "messy" divorce could handle. Maybe she just took a deep breath and looked square in the eye of sheer, rabid MEAN and without her child, couldn't quite see the point in surviving. I don't know why she killed herself, and neither does Nancy Grace, but I feel very sorry for this young mother regardless. I hope her child is found safe and returned to what is left of his family soon. And I wish we could all learn not to be so damned quick to rush to judgement.
"She really has a sterling record of helping to recover kids alive and of helping bring the culprits to justice."
That may be true. But she has a personality that is sometimes very childish, then mean. I do not like her. She also has to act cute.
She is judge and jury!
I saw some of this show, Nancy was REALLy tough, but the woman was soooooo cold about her baby missing, it was strange!!
Nancy yesterday looked like 10 miles of bad road...I'm sure she feels guilty.
Amen.....Most, if not ALL, mothers would stay alive to look for their child!!
I'm not a fan of Nancy Grace, but I read the transcript of that interview, and it didn't seem like a 'grilling' to me. She was simply asking questions about the scene of the crime.
Why there and not at her own apartment?
maybe D. she had something to do with the the child being missing.
*snort* Great gif; I'm stealin it!
When I watch Nancy, it is because I find her to be attractive and kind of 'hot' in an assertive female way. However, I don't kid myself. She is narrow-minded and often mean-spirited. And just about everything she proclaims should be taken with at least one grain of salt.
It was reported that she is Korean.
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